The Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner said the agreements follow a costly error that had to be corrected at the end of 2018 by the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau, an independent bureau that helps set workers’ comp premiums in the state.

Northampton County Council approved the contracts to begin construction of a new forensics center/morgue for the county at the Gracedale Nursing Home campus at Upper Nazareth Township.

St. Luke’s University Health Network will partner with Temple University Hospital for advanced lung disease and lung transplant services. The affiliation will allow patients living in the Lehigh Valley streamlined access to Temple’s experienced lung transplant team and pulmonology specialists close to home.

The new Coordinated Health Sleep Disorder Center has begun seeing patients. The 3,500 square foot center, located at 2300 Highland Ave., Bethlehem, includes four rooms in which sleep studies are conducted on patients by a board certified sleep physician.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is joining Strata Oncology’s Precision Oncology Network, allowing Lehigh Valley Health Network’s advanced cancer patients to receive molecular profiling of tumors and participate in clinical medical trials at no cost.

Lehigh Valley Health Network will build a new hospital in Mahoning Township, Carbon County. The new hospital, to be called Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)-Carbon, will be built on an open property on Blakeslee Blvd. purchased by the health network.

Rite Aid has launched RediClinic Express, a virtual health care kiosk, available in  southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey sites.

Lehigh Valley Hospital−Cedar Crest has been recognized as a “Best Hospital” for 2019-20 by U.S. News & World Report, according to a July 30 press release.

Pennsylvania is ill-prepared to serve a fast growing-population of older adults, according to state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale. DePasquale released a special report on July 23 that followed up on his 2016 audit of oversight of nursing homes by the state Department of Health.

At Fellowship Community, Mary Kay McMahon oversees an organization that has 360 employees and about 500 residents.