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.

Patients with end-stage liver disease can now receive a liver transplant evaluation at UPMC Memorial with the opening of the York-based hospital’s new UPMC Liver Transplant Evaluation Clinic.

UPMC Memorial Hospital and OSS Health have joined Geisinger Health Plan as in-network providers, the Danville-based health plan announced last week.

Patients of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center who are struggling to get to appointments because of transportation costs could receive a Rutter’s gas card to help.

UPMC Pinnacle officially opened its new pediatric inpatient unit at UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg last week.

Jasmine Brown, an LPN, and Joelle Bergman, a medical assistant, dressed in protective clothing as they checked people in, filled out paperwork and administered the shots. Some people stuck their arm out a window to receive the shot and others stepped out of their vehicle.

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

Central Penn College students now have access to a variety of health care services including COVID-19 testing thanks to a partnership between the East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County-based college and UPMC Pinnacle Medical Group.

Harrisburg-based UPMC Pinnacle opened two new UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute offices in the midstate on Monday; one in Shrewsbury Township, York County, and another and Warwick Township, Lancaster County.

A number of midstate hospitals, including UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, were listed as “equality leaders” for their LGBTQ care policies and practices by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

UPMC plans to expand its Heart and Vascular Institute with a series of changes to its services in Lancaster County.