Improving Pennsylvania’s health care workforce pipeline and the tools available to lessen the problem continue to be at the top of mind for the state’s health system leadership. 

WellSpan Health announced that it is set to acquire a Carlisle-based primary care and internal medicine provider, expanding its access in Cumberland County. 

A former University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) senior vice president will be taking over as president of UPMC’s PinnacleHealth Medical Group. 

Harrisburg-based Central Pennsylvania Surgical Associates has joined UPMC as UPMC Central Pennsylvania Surgical Associates. 

Hershey-based Country Meadows Retirement Communities hired a new vice president of sales and marketing earlier this month. 

Construction has begun on York’s newest senior living community, believed to be the first in years. 

WellSpan and Johns Hopkins’ Kimmel Cancer Center have had a clinical and research collaboration since 2017 that saw Johns Hopkins provide specialists in pediatric, urology and plastic surgeries as well as second opinions on severe cancer cases, to WellSpan’s Southcentral Pennsylvania hospitals and cancer centers. 

Camp Hill EMS is set to join Penn State Health Life Lion this fall as part of an agreement by Camp Hill Fire Company and Penn State Health. 

Penn State Health’s outpatient pediatric primary care facility in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, completed a move to a new 7,500-square-foot location.

Highmark members increased their use of telehealth services by 3,400% last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since Highmark Inc. began offering its value-based reimbursement program for primary care physicians in 2017, the Pittsburgh-based insurer says it helped its members avoid more than $1 billion in emergency department visits and hospital admissions.

Seven York County nonprofits were awarded part of $146,000 in grants through the York County COVID-19 Response Fund.

Across the web, business associations and governmental organizations are offering vital information for employers as they keep employees and clients safe, manage remote working strategies and maintain their businesses during a nationwide closure.

A new Medicare payment model being tested on three midstate EMS agencies will offer more options for caring with patients covered under Medicare

Penn State Health’s incoming vice president for medical affairs and staff development is expected to lead in the recruitment of staff for the system’s new Hampden Medical Center when it opens in 2021, according to officials.