Pennsylvania hospitals, while facing financial challenges in the post-pandemic world, still support one in 10 jobs and contribute a fifth of the state’s gross domestic product. 

Effective Aug. 25, Deborah Berini stepped down as president of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the health system said in a statement.

The much-anticipated Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center will open its doors Oct. 3, a network spokesperson confirmed.

Health care providers supercharged their telemedicine offerings as a result of the pandemic—however, how those providers will be reimbursed for virtual care moving forward is in question. 

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. 

Rite Aid Healthy Futures announced Thursday that it has provided $3 million in grant funding to 34 children’s hospitals in 15 states, including one in central Pennsylvania, through its Connecting Communities initiative.

In 2019, Penn State Health announced that it had signed a letter of intent with Danville-based Geisinger Health to purchase Geisinger Holy Spirit in East Pennsboro Township. 

A floating nurse program first used at WellSpan York Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic is now being used across WellSpan Health’s midstate hospitals. 

The Wolf administration is organizing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to launch a number of regional support sites for both hospitals and long-term care facilities and strike teams to support hospitals facing staffing shortages. 

A strike team approved by the Biden administration is set to arrive at WellSpan York Hospital on Jan. 3 to help the hospital and its Emergency Medical Services increase hospital capacity amid continued spikes in COVID-19 cases. 

Enola-based health care services company PAM Health, formerly Post Acute Medical, acquired 16 specialty hospitals from Curahealth and Nautic Partners. 

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 hospitals saw a 33% loss in operating income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new fiscal report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).

Penn State Health will hire approximately 300 people as it nears the Oct. 1 opening of its Hampden Medical Center in Hampden Township, Cumberland County.