Vaccine distributors across the state will need to direct 10% of each shipment to non-hospital affiliated health care personnel, according to a new order signed by Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine on Wednesday.

Gov. Tom Wolf’s limited-time mitigation efforts prohibiting all indoor dining at restaurants is still set to expire at 8 a.m. on Jan. 4, Wolf announced in a press conference on Wednesday.

Staff can grab dinner, milk, paper goods and laundry detergent after finishing their shift at WellSpan York Hospital. All without leaving the hospital.

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry is set to resume making payments through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs but could see a gap in benefits after a delay in approval by the federal government.

Pennsylvania’s rollout of vaccines left smaller private physician practices with little to no information about when or if their staff can expect to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, a group of nine Pennsylvania physician associations wrote in an open letter to Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine.

Pennsylvania’s hospitals fueled $143 billion in total economic impact and supported one in nine jobs in the state last year, according to a new report released this week by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).

Carlisle-based Sadler Health Center announced on Tuesday that it has finished a new expansion to increase its examining capacity by 21%.

State lawmakers praised the coming of the $900 billion federal stimulus package approved by the Senate and Congress this week but noted that much more must be done before the nation recovers from its public health and economic crisis.

Lancaster General Hospital has closed its Duke Street emergency department entrance as it begins a multi-year, $182.5 million expansion to the department.

"Pennie," Pennsylvania's new health insurance marketplace, has expanded service options and the shopping period for individuals seeking coverage that begins Jan. 1.

When making medical house calls through Harrisburg-based skilled nursing service, Mike Lawler realized that home-care patients weren’t designing their living environments to fit their future health care needs.

Lancaster General Hospital is now a Level One Trauma Center after receiving accreditation from the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation.

“This is a pivotal moment in our fight against COVID,”Jahre said. “The world has been waiting for this vaccine, and we are on the cusp of being able to provide it.”

When Jenny Englerth was a preteen, she showed horses. She had excellent trainers and coaches, but Englerth especially admired the grooms, the people who cared for the horses. “They were horse whisperers,” she said.

Health science and nursing programs at the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences have both seen an increase in enrollment for the fall and spring, which could be a factor of the spotlight given to health care careers during the pandemic.