WellSpan Health opened WellSpan Eye Center at the Apple Hill Medical Center in York Township on Monday. The practice is WellSpan’s first eye center and will provide optical testing, surgical lasers and an optical shop for glasses and contact lenses.

WellSpan Health opened its newest Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine office in Ephrata last week-- the York-based health system’s second in Lancaster County.

An executive with five years of experience at WellSpan Health will be taking over as the York-based hospital system’s senior vice president for the central region and the president of WellSpan York Hospital.

WellSpan Health’s newest executive vice president and chief physician executive is slated to join the York-based hospital system in July.

Hospitals in counties transitioning to the green phase of Pennsylvania’s reopening plan may reopen their facilities to visitors at their own discretion, according to updated guidance released Wednesday by the Wolf administration.

Residential and non-residential construction in Pennsylvania is set to resume May 8, but projects deemed life-sustaining continued across the commonwealth with only a short delay, including some by regional health care systems.

WellSpan Health has converted nine of its facilities to non-emergency care locations for patients who are either positive with COVID-19 or are suspected of having it.

WellSpan Health confirmed on Monday that an employee at its WellSpan York Hospital tested positive for COVID-19.

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

Highmark Blue Shield will be offering a new health insurance product for WellSpan patients as part of a recently announced strategic partnership.

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.

WellSpan’s newly announced expansion to its York hospital will include more than 500 new employees and is expected to alleviate a capacity issue at the facility.

WellSpan York Hospital will expand its intensive care unit with a $255 million surgical and critical care tower, planned to open on the hospital’s campus in 2025.

Family First Health, a York-based federally qualified health center, is opening its newest facility next week at the WellSpan Dixon Foundation Health Center in Lebanon.

A Strasburg Township, Lancaster County-based non-profit clinic will be expanding its pediatric home care services for Plain patients with a new grant from WellSpan Health.