York College of Pennsylvania, a private, non-profit college located in South Central Pennsylvania, has announced the expansion of its online graduate programs to help meet growing demand in fields such as nursing and healthcare analytics.  

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. 

Governor Tom Wolf today announced a $297,000 grant to expand BAYADA Home Health Care’s nurse residency apprenticeship program to help adults and children who need home health care in Pennsylvania. 

I nursed Coraline until she was two years and seven months old. I never planned to go so long, but I guess I am much more of a hippie parent than I even realized. 

Penn State Health plans to launch an at-home health care service that includes hospital and skilled nursing care through a partnership with Highmark Health and Nashville-based high-acuity home care company Contessa. 

The nursing shortage in Pennsylvania -- and across the country -- isn’t new, it’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic, according to the head of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association in Harrisburg.  

The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association has come up with a rather clever way to combat the nursing shortage in the state - they’re going to make more.  

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.

In an effort to tackle a nationwide nurse educator shortage, PA College of Health Sciences announced a new Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Education starting this fall.

Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to sign a $40.8 billion general fund budget that includes the largest education funding increase in state history and allocates millions of dollars from Pennsylvania’s share of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) for rental assistance, child care, nursing home and long-term care recovery and more, before its Wednesday deadline.

Shortly after rallying outside of the state Capitol to demand that legislators add health care staffing into the 2021-22 budget, nursing home workers from 12 different homes across the state have voted to strike next month.

Health science and nursing programs at the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences have both seen an increase in enrollment for the fall and spring, which could be a factor of the spotlight given to health care careers during the pandemic.

Lehigh Carbon Community College students who graduate with an Associate Degree in Nursing can now enroll in Harrisburg University’s Bachelor of Science (BSN) degree in Nursing program for half the cost of tuition.

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.

Nurses experience clinical depression at twice the rate of the general public. We talked to area nurses to find out why and what can be done to help.