Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center is beginning to take shape in the Wentworth Corporate Center in Cumberland County.

The rush for personal protective equipment, patients unable to seek help at hospitals and varying reports of the incoming wave of COVID-19 created a difficult environment to perform in last March, but Penn State Health predicts a different outcome for a potential second wave.

UPMC Pinnacle is nearing completion on its $87.5 million expansion to Hampden Township-based UPMC Pinnacle West Shore.

In an effort to bolster the state’s contact tracing efforts, health department officials are testing an “exposure-notification” app that would alert individuals after coming into close contact with a COVID-19-positive person.

A new state order for Pennsylvania’s long-term care facilities mandates all organizations to provide pre-approved personal protective equipment to all staff working directly with COVID-19 positive residents by Aug. 27.

In this conversation, Lufborrow dissects the trends in employer-based plans, the broad relationships and connectivity Highmark has developed in Pennsylvania and the importance that a well-informed, connected payor has in the employer-based health care relationship.  

A Lower Paxton, Dauphin County real estate firm is moving forward with plans for a 20,000-square-foot medical office building along the I-81 corridor in Cumberland County.

“Cautious optimism” was the phrase used to describe sentiments about the future of the health care industry by the experts at Central Penn Business Journal’s 2020 Health Care Symposium, a virtual event held Aug. 14.

Penn State Health is developing two projects at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center that will cost more than $37 million in renovations and expansions.

Jan Bergen, president and CEO of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, announced today that she will retire from the Lancaster-based health system in January.

With a COVID-19 antigen test nearly ready for market, OraSure is poised for a big expansion in which it plans to invest more than $7 million to ramp up production.

The average insurance rates proposed by Pennsylvania insurance companies decreased about 2.6% among individual plans and increased on average by 2.2% among small group plans.

Dental product manufacturer Dentsply Sirona plans to end all production activities at its West College Avenue, York manufacturing facility following losses in the second quarter of 2020.

OraSure Technologies said it expects to launch its COVID-19 rapid antigen in-home self-test by the fourth quarter of this year.

WellSpan York Hospital installed twin MRI systems at its recently expanded $14 million imaging department that are expected to increase the quality and speed of the process.