Lehigh Valley Health Network will now allow no more than one support person for mothers in labor in order to reduce coronavirus risks for patients, staff and visitors.

A Reading-based pretzel manufacturer is participating in what is turning out to be a fairly “unique” national marketing effort.

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Working from home has become the new normal for a majority of us during the coronavirus crisis. For parents, this requires adjusting to parenting while working. 

Wind Creek Bethlehem said a total of three employees have now tested positive for COVID-19. After identifying a COVID-19 positive employee who had last worked on March 14, two more employees exhibited symptoms after the closure of the property.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers this week authorized legislation to ensure public school employees will be paid during the mandated closure of education facilities due to the coronavirus pandemic.

To stop the hoarding, Redner’s Markets, a Pennsylvania based supermarket chain, is allowing store managers to set limits on the number of items customers can buy of certain foods, like toilet paper or meat.

Now, there is one place where Lehigh Valley consumers can find restaurants still serving up meals and how they can get them, as well as information about small business goods and services still available.

The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic can be especially taxing for health care workers, so the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania is offering tips to help health care workers unwind and recharge when they are off duty.

Cedar Crest College’s School of Nursing donated their lab supply of approximately 400 N95 respirator masks, 700 regular masks, gloves and isolation gowns to St. Luke’s University Health Network Allentown Campus and Lehigh Valley Health Network.