A joint task force that includes members of the General Assembly and the Wolf Administration was empaneled and is expected to help the state streamline how it communicates vaccine information and issues.

Enola-based specialty health care system Post Acute Medical became an early adopter for a mobile filtration unit that it says will prove to have been the right investment even after the pandemic is over.

National medical marijuana dispensary chain Curaleaf Holdings is set to open its first Pennsylvania Curaleaf dispensary in Harrisburg on Wednesday.

Harrisburg-based venture capital investment firm The Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA) invested $1.5 million last year into three Pennsylvania health care companies.

Gov. Tom Wolf has nominated his deputy chief of staff, Alison Beam, to serve as secretary of the Department of Health.

Harrisburg Area Community College’s (HACC) upcoming Community Health Worker Program will prepare students for careers such as outreach workers, patient navigators and peer health educators.

Pennsylvania Health Secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, who will be leaving office to take a position in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration, said she is proud of the work she has done during her six years of state service.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be his assistant secretary of health, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

OVID-19 arrived in the U.S. in the beginning of 2020 and within a couple months the pandemic was virtually closing down the entire country. The COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions, pain, suffering and negative consequences for a broad spectrum of our world population and economies.  

Wyomissing, Berks County-based ophthalmology and eye care practice, Eye Consultants of Pennsylvania, named its newest administrator this week.

Patients with end-stage liver disease can now receive a liver transplant evaluation at UPMC Memorial with the opening of the York-based hospital’s new UPMC Liver Transplant Evaluation Clinic.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that it will not hear an appeal from the wife of a convicted former Rite Aid executive who sought to sue the pharmacy chain for stopping payments through her husband’s retirement package.

A CEO for a New Orleans-based hospital system is set to join Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health as its next CEO when current president and CEO, Jan Bergen, retires this March.

Like the rest of the state and the country, the situation remains dire for the retail, restaurant, hospitality, accommodation, tourism and recreation sectors. Industries that are hiring include healthcare, construction, warehousing, distribution and manufacturing, all of which were having problems finding workers before the pandemic.

A new optometry franchise focused exclusively on medical eye care opened its first brick-and-mortar location in York County this week.