Reading-based Tower Health's former vice president for nursing operations joins Penn State Health as the new chief nursing officer for the Hershey-based health system’s upcoming Lancaster Medical Center on Jan. 17. 

 Alison Beam, acting secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, will resign at the end of the year. She is expected to be replaced by Executive Deputy Secretary Keara Klinepeter. 

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health recently received $750,000 in state grants to combat substance-use-disorder and mental-health challenges in women. 

Chicago-based privately held cannabis company PharmaCann Inc. opened its newest Verilife medical marijuana dispensary in Lancaster on Tuesday. 

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has appointed its newest senior vice president and chief operating officer, to begin at the Hershey-based hospital next month.

Surgery Center of Lancaster, a 17,000-square-foot surgical center of 26 surgeons, was recently purchased through a partnership of the center’s owners, Penn State Health and ValueHealth. 

Pennsylvania’s hospitals generated $155 billion in economic activity in 2020, while taking a $6.5 billion loss, according to a recent report by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP). 

Pennsylvania’s largest public cyber charter school, Harrisburg-based Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA), launched a new partnership with Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) to offer an EMT program to CCA students. 

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s new 15,500-square-foot outpatient center, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Lincoln, opened in Clay Township, Lancaster County on Monday. 

A booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will soon be available for certain adults who received the Pfizer vaccine at least six months ago, including residents in long-term care settings. 

WellSpan Health’s senior director of talent acquisition, diversity and inclusion will lead the York-based system’s efforts to build its workforce diversity and inclusivity as its first ever chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. 

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. 

WellSpan Health president and CEO Dr. Roxanna Gapstur will join York-based Traditions Bank’s Board of Directors and the board of Traditions Bancorp on Wednesday. 

WellSpan Health is partnering with Pittsburgh-based managed care organization Gateway Health Plan in a move the two organizations say will lower health care costs for Gateway’s 24,000 Medicaid members living in South Central Pennsylvania.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s vice president of nursing, acute and ambulatory care will be taking on a new role as the Hershey-based hospital’s senior vice president and chief nursing officer.