How can employers recruit and retain good employees in today’s tight job market? The answer, according to the professionals gathered for this year’s Lehigh Valley Business HR Symposium, is to adapt to the changing needs of the workforce. “Employers are chasing a very small pool of available workers,” said Jacob Stitman, shareholder with Fitzpatrick Lentz ...

Lehigh Valley Health Network officially opened the Lutron Lobby of its Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Health Hospital at its Cedar Crest campus with a ribbon cutting Wednesday night.

Tower Health and Drexel University have entered into an agreement to acquire St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. The 189-bed, 144 year old for-profit children’s hospital, located in the city of Philadelphia, was sold to the two organizations for $50 million.

Tower Health, the Berks County-based health network, has established the Tower Health Transplant Institute, which will become the new home for the former Hahnemann University Hospital kidney and liver transplant program. Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital, established in 1885, announced in June that it would be closing because of financial difficulties. The Hahnemann transplant program’s team ...

Coordinated Health, the Lehigh Valley-based health network known for a focus on orthopedics, will soon become a part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network. LVHN, both the Lehigh Valley’s largest health network and its largest employer, has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire the assets of Coordinated Health, pending reviews by the Federal ...

RWJBH and St. Luke’s have signed a three-year joint, renewable agreement that will provide patients in northwest New Jersey greater access to services from both organizations.

Ever since 10th grade English class, Ashley Russo knew she wanted to be a journalist. Today, as founder of ASR Media and host of The PEAK TV, she is just like many of us, juggling motherhood and career. Russo, grateful for her success, reminds us to savor the many moments along the way.

Lauren Albright has a demanding job with her family's imported tile business in Allentown. There are design consults, international orders to be placed and staff to manage. But, what few Creative Tile customers know is that Lauren also faces the demands of a chronic, life-long illness called Cystic Fibrosis.

Lehigh Valley surgeons, Drs. Peter Rovito and Geoffrey Hallock are headed to Honduras on Sept. 21 to provide needed surgeries to those who have no access to medical care.

Reading Hospital, the acute-care hospital of Tower Health in Reading, has hired a child-life specialist to support pediatric patients who may be experiencing anxiety during their stay in the emergency department.