Behavioral health, access to health care and prevention are the three most pressing health care needs in Central Pennsylvania in the post-pandemic world.

Highmark Health is working with a Pittsburgh-based health care technology startup to streamline member access to prescription drugs from specialty pharmacies. 

Pressley Ridge, a nationally recognized provider of mental health, treatment foster care and specialized education services for youth and families, announced that has received a $10 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

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

Pittsburgh-based UPMC’s president and CEO of 15 years is set to step down from his position next week after 48 years with the health system—he will be succeeded by Leslie Davis, a health care executive with 17 years of experience at UPMC.

UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg is poised to open a $17 million, 26-bed pediatric inpatient unit next month.

In preparation for its Medicare product rollout for 2020, Highmark Health ensured that it had the infrastructure to allow all of its Medicare consumers the ability to receive care through telehealth.

UPMC began testing patients for COVID-19 this week at a private specimen collection site in Pittsburgh and plans to open a similar site in Harrisburg at a later date.

Amid legal and financial challenges, cannabis entrepreneurs are banking on growing cultural acceptance of their product to succeed.