The journey of 3,000 miles begins with a single step, to borrow a phrase.

Lehigh Hills, a walkable community of about 300 acres, continues to take shape in the Fogelsville section of Upper Macungie Township, with retail developments underway.

The three-year-old Allspire Health Partners, a consortium of five regional health systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, named its first president.

A construction project with an 88,000-square-foot green roof at Reading Health System’s main location in West Reading, which broke ground in September 2013, will debut to the Berks County community by October.

St. Luke's Hospital in Bartonsville, the first new hospital in Monroe County in 100 years, is expected to open in early fall and create 400 jobs, hospital officials said Thursday at a pre-opening celebration.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Olympus Corp. of the Americas packed its bags and moved its North and South American headquarters from Melville, N.Y., to Center Valley.

Africa may seem like a long way for a Lehigh Valley doctor to make a house call, but in a way that's exactly what some physicians from St. Luke's University Health Network have been doing the past two years.

(Laura J. Mertz is administrator, sales, marketing and business development at Populytics Inc. in Allentown and general manager, Lehigh Valley Physician Hospital Organization Inc./Valley Preferred in South Whitehall Township.)