Pennsylvania’s top attorney is defending his efforts to make drug-maker Purdue Pharma pay for the way it marketed the painkiller OxyContin to doctors in Pennsylvania.

Summit Health Vice President of Finance Jeff Carty died of natural causes on Friday while driving on Interstate 81 in Guilford Township, Franklin County. He was 55.

Asked Monday night what they would like to see in the former UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster hospital, city residents appeared to favor housing and health care.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has finished a new area for its emergency department and plans to open it this week.

The former owner of a Harrisburg consulting firm pleaded guilty this week to defrauding a fund that provides employee benefits for the union representing state university faculty.

A major update to a national rating system for nursing homes has had a trickledown effect on the ratings of Pennsylvania facilities, one that could affect their ability to attract residents.

In arguments before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday, an attorney for UPMC said it is not possible to extend a consent decree between the health system and insurer Highmark, despite efforts to make the agreement last longer.

Over-prescribing opioids have been targeted as a driving force behind the nation’s opioid addiction crisis. For the past year, two Pennsylvania health systems have taken efforts to slow the problem.

Tobacco 21 is a nationwide movement to increase the legal purchasing age of tobacco from 18 to 21. If this legislation passes in Pennsylvania, there will be fewer smokers in the future, and medical costs, tax burdens and productivity losses will decrease. 

A new affordable apartment complex using a 100-year-old historic Lancaster senior home is expected to break ground this week.

Two school districts in the Lehigh Valley are challenging the tax-exempt status of two major hospital networks in an effort to force the nonprofits to pay property taxes.

Parents with newborn babies undergoing surgery will now have the option to stay with their children overnight at UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg’s new neonatal intensive care unit.

UPMC Pinnacle has acquired an East Pennsboro Township cancer treatment center.

Canadian engineering giant WSP Global has acquired Leach Wallace Associates, which has an office in York Township, for an undisclosed sum.

Pennsylvania nursing homes already dealing with what they see as inadequate state funding said they face another threat: A legal climate that forces them to pay to settle allegedly frivolous lawsuits.