Tower Health has named Dr. Ron Nutting, as the new chief medical officer of Reading Hospital in West Reading.

Lehigh Valley Hospital and St. Luke’s University Hospital-Bethlehem Campus tied for sixth place among Pennsylvania’s best hospitals in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals in Pennsylvania report for 2020.

A former garment factory in Minersville, Schuylkill County, that sat vacant for 55 years, will open this fall as LIFE Geisinger’s fifth senior care facility, the health care company announced.

Lehigh Valley Health Network has opened a new inpatient oncology unit at its Cedar Crest hospital campus. The new unit is on the fifth floor of the Kasych Family Pavilion. The new unit not only adds beds, but includes all private rooms to give patients and their families more comfort.

State officials awarded grants for three major health networks to create medication-assisted treatment programs as part of the Wolf administration’s multi-year effort to provide addiction recovery services for underinsured Pennsylvanians suffering from opioid use disorder.

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art rehabilitation Hospital in Center Valley on land it owns across from the Promenade Shops – replacing its South Allentown rehabilitation hospital, which opened in 1983.

Starting this fall, Penn State Lehigh Valley will offer health services as an option for its bachelor of science in business degree program.

The state is now accepting applications for $10 million in grant funding through its COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments and Therapies program to support advancement in new methods to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health insurer Capital Blue Cross, which has offices in the Lehigh Valley, said it has extended its preferred partnership with the Lehigh Valley Business Coalition on Healthcare through 2024.

Maintaining personal protection equipment for patients and staff has become a full-time job for independent health care providers who have not received the help from the state that their counterparts in health care systems have.