Penn State Children’s Hospital was voted the third best children’s hospital in the state and Lancaster General Hospital and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center tied for fourth place among Pennsylvania’s best hospitals in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals in Pennsylvania report for 2020.

UPMC Pinnacle was awarded more than $705,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enhance telehealth services at its hospitals.

Plans had been moving along, with city officials discussing possible options with UPMC Pinnacle. Then the coronavirus crisis swept the country, creating higher priorities for health systems, said Jess King, chief of staff for the city.

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.

Area hospitals are looking at which of their employees can work remotely and how many employees their departments need to still operate.

A new Medicare payment model being tested on three midstate EMS agencies will offer more options for caring with patients covered under Medicare

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has begun testing potential samples of coronavirus from its Exton-based laboratory, but has yet to see an active case in the state.

WellSpan’s incoming addition to WellSpan York Hospital, an eight-story tower created to expand the hospital’s inpatient services, is not the only major project the system is working on. In fact, the midstate is currently brimming with new projects in the works from all of the area’s major players.

UPMC Pinnacle’s gastroenterology practice now offers its services in Hanover.

Penn State Health will acquire a pulmonary practice that will allow it to expand its lung disease and sleep disorder care to more of its facilities across the midstate.

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.

Hospitals across the midstate mostly received high marks in a biannual safety ranking of the country’s hospitals.

UPMC Pediatrics Shippensburg, a new practice staffed by two pediatricians, opened its doors to patients on Monday.

An independent medical practice is now providing pulmonary and critical care to critically ill and post-ICU patients at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York County.

The new West Manchester Township UPMC Memorial hospital is nearing its Aug. 18 opening date and UPMC Pinnacle plans to begin transitioning its services to the hospital this week.