After a year in which the nation’s hospitals struggled both financially and operationally, Clint Matthews has announced his retirement as president and CEO of the Berks County-based Tower Health.
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Reading Hospital installs new cancer treatment tool
A new cancer treatment tool which employs magnetic resonance imaging to treat tumors is now in use at the McGlinn Cancer Institute at Reading Hospital. The system is designed to minimize exposure of healthy tissue to radiation.
Read More »110 Drexel Medicine employees join Reading’s Tower Health Medical Group
As part of Tower Health’s recent partnership with Philadelphia’s Drexel University, 110 clinicians and staff from Drexel Medicine joined Tower Health Medical Group, effective Jan. 1.
Read More »Tower Health opens UPMC Health Plan Connect Center in Wyomissing
Tower Health, the Berks County-based health network, has opened a new Tower Health-UPMC Health Plan Connect Center inside the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing. Designed to help consumers with their health insurance questions, individuals and current members can meet one-on-one with associates at the new location, which is open during regular mall hours. The new site ...
Read More »Tower Health approved for transplant surgeries
The Tower Health Transplant Institute has received the necessary regulatory approvals from UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) and the Department of Health to begin performing transplant surgeries.
Read More »Tower Health acquires Hahnemann University Hospital’s kidney and liver transplant team
Tower Health, the Berks County-based health network, has established the Tower Health Transplant Institute, which will become the new home for the former Hahnemann University Hospital kidney and liver transplant program. Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital, established in 1885, announced in June that it would be closing because of financial difficulties. The Hahnemann transplant program’s team ...
Read More »Tower Health picks Epic electronic health record platform
All Tower Health hospitals and physicians will now use the Epic electronic health record platform in order to share and manage patient records.
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