A little more than a year after launching a program aimed at helping busy executives schedule medical examinations, St. Luke's University Health Network officials say it has saved three patients who appeared to be on the verge of personal catastrophe.
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A last-resort treatment for those crippled by depression
A Greater Lehigh Valley psychiatrist has been treating stubborn cases of severe clinical depression since 2011 with significant results using a noninvasive, nondrug therapy.
Read More »Quakertown to get its first urgent care center
Quakertown soon will have its first stand-alone urgent care center.
Read More »Head of LV Business Coalition on Healthcare to retire
Tom Croyle, president of the Lehigh Valley Business Coalition on Healthcare, announced his plans to retire July 1.
Read More »Wyomissing health care consultant continues expansion with acquisition of Rhode Island firm
A Wyomissing-based provider of health care logistics management has acquired a Rhode Island firm to increase its services.
Read More »Reading HealthPlex to open 150 new patient rooms to garden views
Reading HealthPlex for Advanced Surgical & Patient Care will open 150 new patient rooms on five floors on Tuesday.
Read More »LVHN-Pocono officials anticipate changes, challenges
Lehigh Valley Health Network officials said to expect “dynamic changes” now that the health care system has acquired Pocono Health System.
Read More »Medical device makers must show tax break fueled growth
Medical device companies in the U.S. celebrated a victory when the medical device tax was suspended a year ago this month. The 2.3 percent tax on sales, which went into effect in January 2013, raised $913 million the first half of that year to help fund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Penn State Health St. Joseph responds to growing primary care need, opens new location
Penn State Health St. Joseph has opened a new medical office, Spring Ridge Health Corridor, in Wyomissing that offers primary care and outpatient services.
Read More »Good Shepherd to move rehab unit from Pocono Medical Center to St. Luke’s
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network said it will join St. Luke's University Health Network to open a unit next month at its new Monroe Campus in Bartonsville.
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