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.)

Is it a cold or the flu? A sprain or a fracture? Allergies or a sinus infection?

Phoebe Ministries of Allentown has partnered with a Bethlehem-based home care firm to provide Phoebe’s in-home care services, a move that the organization said “brings in the experts” and will ultimately allow Phoebe to expand services and make them available to more people.

Advocates for the passage of the state's medical marijuana and hemp legislation today launched a holding company, two for-profit companies and one nonprofit organization, all based in Maidencreek Township, Berks County, to capitalize on the economic potential of industrial hemp production and medical marijuana research.

Medical marijuana and industrial hemp advocates have gathered at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Reading today.

St. Luke’s University Health Network continues its expansion with the recent opening of a walk-in health care clinic in Hunterdon County, N.J