As part of Tower Health’s recent partnership with Philadelphia’s Drexel University, 110 clinicians and staff from Drexel Medicine joined Tower Health Medical Group, effective Jan. 1.

Eights Gym & Fitness, a gym and fitness center, has opened for business in Alburtis. The gym, located at 200 Franklin St. is open to members up to seven days a week and 24 hours a day, depending on membership plan chosen. 

Eight more hospitals across the state will be joining a state initiative created to help rural hospitals receive the funding they need to stay open.

Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems contributed $136.1 billion to the commonwealth’s economy from 2018 to 2019, according to a white paper analysis released on Dec. 16 by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania. The white paper also reports that Pennsylvania hospitals accounted for more than one of every 10 jobs in the state.

From now until Jan. 21, state officials are accepting comments for Gov. Tom Wolf’s federally mandated four-year workforce development plan, which seeks to coordinate the efforts of the state's educational institutions, economic development programs and employers of the region’s major industries to create a pathway to optimal employment.

The state has allocated an additional $5 million in federal funding for a loan repayment program for health care practitioners who treat substance-use  and opioid-use disorders. The increased funding, announced Dec. 20, is available to health care practitioners who work in areas with high opioid-use and a shortage of health-care options.

After more than 45 years as a practicing attorney and managing partner at Tallman, Hudders & Sorrentino in Allentown, and later, Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, the New York-based firm it merged into, Matthew Sorrentino switched gears.

It’s official. After announcing plans for Lehigh Valley Health Network to acquire the privately owned Coordinated Health of South Whitehall in September, the health network has officially closed on the deal.

A federal agency’s recent report shows the Lehigh Valley’s economic output for private industry pushing past $41 billion, a 4.4 percent increase over the previous year.

When Northampton County councilperson Tara M. Zrinski was in the eighth grade, a teacher told her that a woman would never be elected president of the United States. Zrinski, politically passionate even then, refused to believe that. While she may not be running for president – yet -- she is running as a Democrat for a seat in the state House of Representatives for the 138th District.