An Allentown-based hospice care provider has been acquired by a Denver-based hospice and home health care company. 

St. Luke’s University Hospital, Bethlehem, was named one of the nation’s top performing cardiovascular hospitals by Fortune magazine and IBM Watson Health.  

More than 70 Geisinger Health System employees filed a class-action suit against Danville-based Geisinger Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals and clinics, claiming its COVID-19 testing requirements for employees exempt from getting the vaccine force them to choose between their religion and their jobs. 

Ten St. Luke’s University Health Network hospitals and two Lehigh Valley Health Network Hospitals received top marks from the Leap Frog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog organization on hospital safety. 

Tower Health Medical Group Street Medicine Program will open its first Telemedicine kiosk to serve the homeless at the Hope Rescue Mission in Reading on Friday. 

Dr. Douglas W. Lundy, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in acute/reconstructive trauma, fracture and limb-lengthening surgery, is the new chair of St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Department of Orthopedics. 

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The Lehigh Valley Business Coalition on Healthcare (LVBCH) has selected Clarity Benefit Solutions as the Coalition’s Online Benefits Administration Partner to provide the tools, resources and support employer members need to provide affordable, high-quality employee benefits for their employees. 

St. Luke’s Carbon Campus will begin treating patients once government approvals are obtained, possibly as early as the end of the month.  

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has amended its Emergency Use Authorization of OraSure’s InteliSwab COVID-19 rapid test. The Bethlehem diagnostic test manufacturer said the EUA now only requires one test for users who are presenting symptoms of COVID-19.