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.

According to the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, the Lehigh Valley’s top industry by employment is health care and social assistance. More than 30,000 people work for the region’s two largest employers, Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke’s University Health Network.

Kimberly Sheets, M.D., is the medical director of the Patient First centers in Allentown and Bethlehem.  She has been with Patient First since 2012, and has been practicing medicine in the Lehigh Valley since 2000.

Health care consumers are turning more and more to urgent care centers rather than traditional primary care offices. Patients are rushing to these walk-in centers, which offer medical care for minor emergencies and illnesses at a fraction of the cost of the traditional emergency room. LVB explores why.