Amid yet another rise in COVID-19 patient numbers in hospitals, the midstate’s hospital systems recognize that they will need to continue to reinvent everything from how they deliver care to the part they play in the supply chain. 

Hershey Pediatric Center will join UPMC as UPMC Hershey Pediatric Center on Sept.1. 

Two surgical practices will join UPMC’s surgical teams at its Cumberland County hospitals next month.

A mobile addiction services clinic, powered and staffed by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is making weekly stops in upper Dauphin County. The medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, vehicle offers treatment, referrals and other resources to enable recovery. UPMC staff see patients, make evaluations and prescriptions, while directing them to counseling and other resources, as needed. ...

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.

On July 1, UPMC Children’s Express Care opened its first after-hours clinic in central Pennsylvania to provide pediatric care on evenings and weekends when a patient’s regular physician’s office is closed.

Urology of Central PA (UCPA), a urology practice with locations in Camp Hill, Newport and Millersburg and a surgery center in Harrisburg, will be joining UPMC as UPMC Urology of Central PA on July 1.

Bidding closed this week on the former York Memorial Hospital and four single-story office buildings on the hospital’s campus-- all sold for $1,545,000 to an unnamed bidder.

UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in Chambersburg is set to move to a larger, more accessible office space next week.

UPMC Pinnacle is dropping “Pinnacle” from the names of three of its central Pennsylvania hospitals as part of a systemwide rebranding.

No COVID-19 playbook was sitting on Pennsylvania’s hospital leaders’ shelves when cases began to spread into the Commonwealth last year. It had to be built through collaboration between hospitals and first-hand experience.

The former COO of a Chicago hospital is set to succeed Lou Baverso as president of UPMC Carlisle.

Three urgent care clinics owned by UPMC Pinnacle have changed their names to fit under the Harrisburg-based health system’s UPMC Urgent Care brand.

UPMC plans to open its newest orthopedic practice to west shore residents on April 1 to compliment another orthopedic facility opening this month.

Entry-level positions at UPMC Pinnacle facilities now start at $15 an hour, the Harrisburg-based hospital system announced on Monday.