West Reading-based Tower Health will acquire Premier Urgent Care’s 19 walk-in health care centers in a deal that will close this fall, the companies announced Tuesday.

Highmark Inc. and UPMC, health insurance companies headquartered in Pittsburgh, unveiled 2019 Medicare plans on Monday.

West Reading's Tower Health has announced a partnership with the nation's largest manager of ambulatory surgical centers to expand access to care for patients in its market area.

St. Luke’s University Health Network recently opened two health centers in the region.

Grand View Health in Sellersville said it has formed a new alliance with The University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia to develop joint clinical care and possibly develop new sites for ambulatory care.

Construction of the $100 million Women and Babies Pavilion entered a new phase Monday as a crane hoisted the last steel beam and workers placed it on top of the four-story building on St. Luke's Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township.

Hospital executives from around the state, including the Lehigh Valley, discussed the value of telemedicine in patient care this week at a state House of Representatives committee hearing in Harrisburg.

Vita Medical Associates, P.C., will occupy 6,800 square feet on the second floor of Gateway at Greenway Park in South Bethlehem.

Lehigh Valley Health Network plans to open an orthopedics practice Monday at its new health center in Richland Township.