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Healthcare-associated infections declined in Pennsylvania, according to the most recent report from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2018 National and State Healthcare-associated Infections Progress Report shows that acute-care hospitals in Pennsylvania achieved reductions for six of seven types of infections tracked, compared to 2015.

Minneapolis-based Vireo Health launched its second Pennsylvania medical marijuana dispensary last week with the opening of Green Goods Bethlehem in Lower Saucon Township.

Adrian Shanker, executive director of the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, has edited a new anthology of essays by LGBT activists which aims to inform the health care system and LGBT health care consumers on how to give and receive better care.

AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania, a Medical Assistance (Medicaid) managed care plan serving Central and Northwestern Pennsylvania, plans to open a community wellness center in Reading. The center aims to help residents overcome social, economic and environmental barriers to their own health care.

Learn how area hospitals rate for safety. The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization focused on improving hospital safety, released their biannual safety ratings of the nation’s hospitals Nov. 7. The majority of area hospitals received A grades, while a few earned B, C, and even D ratings.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s office is going after one of the leaders in the vaping industry.

St. Luke’s University Health Network and the Workforce Board of the Lehigh Valley have unveiled the early results of a partnership, which placed a PA CareerLink Lehigh Valley satellite office in the health network’s Sacred Heart campus on North Fifth Street in Allentown.

With a focus on teaching healthy habits to teens, Tower Health of West Reading opened a Weight Loss Surgery & Wellness Center in Berks County.

Sam’s Club, the 599-store membership warehouse segment of the Walmart empire, sold $58 billion worth of stuff in its fiscal 2019, and nearly all of that stuff can be found in the average American home.