Pennsylvania’s fire, rescue and EMS companies will be eligible for $50 million worth of grant funding through the Office of State Fire Commissioner, Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Thursday.

Grand View Health signed an agreement with health insurer, Humana Inc., that will provide in-network coverage for Humana Medicare Advantage members at Grand View Hospital and its outpatient locations.

Since Highmark Inc. began offering its value-based reimbursement program for primary care physicians in 2017, the Pittsburgh-based insurer says it helped its members avoid more than $1 billion in emergency department visits and hospital admissions.

Similar to the work he is doing with LVHN, Dr. Patruno will create and lead newly established wellness programing and professional fulfillment initiatives to help fight physician and health care provider burnout.

A new set of guidelines for gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic determine the maximum occupancy of an indoor or outdoor event using the venue’s occupancy rate.

In preparation for its Medicare product rollout for 2020, Highmark Health ensured that it had the infrastructure to allow all of its Medicare consumers the ability to receive care through telehealth.

The Coronavirus has quickened the pace of consolidation in one of the last large cottage industries -- dentistry. The intimate nature of the relationship between a dentist and a patient, along with the long-standing tradition of independence in the profession, have allowed solo practitioners, until recently, to remain in the majority.

Gov. Tom Wolf established a number of councils and commissions on Friday that his administration says will help the state address comprehensive reforms in both physical and behavioral health and make health care easier to access for Pennsylvanians.

While people in the college-age group experience the same mental health issues as the rest of the population, the way they experience such issues may be different, according to Whitney Quinlan, clinical psychology postdoctoral resident at WellSpan Philhaven.

A Lehigh University alum and his wife are donating $5 million to the Bethlehem school to create an endowed chair for its new College of Health. With the donation, Vincent and Ellen Forlenza will create the Ellen and Vincent Forlenza ’75 Chair in Health Innovation and Technology Endowment fund.