When UPMC Pinnacle set out to design West Manchester Township-based, UPMC Memorial hospital, the system laid out its imaging and emergency departments next to one another, and operating rooms were expanded to leave room for advances in surgical equipment such as robotics.

Eight more hospitals across the state will be joining a state initiative created to help rural hospitals receive the funding they need to stay open.

Hospitals accounted for one out of 10 jobs in Pennsylvania and contributed some $60.5 billion to the state’s economy, according to a report released by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

The developer of a Cumberland County technology park that is home to one hospital and adjacent to another, plans to build a medical office nearby to capitalize on the area’s growing health care industry.

Nursing programs across the country turned away more than 75,000 qualified applicants last year as colleges dealt with a dearth of faculty and budget constraints that kept them from growing enrollment.

Pennsylvania is the first state chosen by a New York City nonprofit to receive part of a $50 million investment created to help tackle the national opioid crisis.