St. Luke’s University Health Network will offer expanded care at the Gnaden Huetten emergency department in Lehighton. The health network will also open a new walk-in urgent care facility on July 1, St. Luke’s Care Now, in Palmerton, to replace the emergency department there.

The Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health is going up on property at The Knitting Mills redevelopment project, the site of the former VF Factory Outlets. The site is in close proximity to Reading Hospital, now owned by Tower Health, which has 714 beds.

The structure, originally built in 1959, now has a 2,400-square-foot second story, which includes a clean room for compounding medicine, a lunchroom and additional workspace.

Penn State Health St. Joseph has been given $425,000 to establish a nursing simulation lab and provide funding for nursing education at the St. Joseph’s downtown campus in Reading.

The number of opioid prescriptions written in the state dropped 43 percent between 2013 and 2018, the fifth-largest drop nationally.

Pennsylvania lawmakers unanimously adopted a resolution directing a state panel to study the shortage of mental health care providers in the state

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown has joined a coalition of activists in a lawsuit challenging a proposed federal rule that would allow doctors, nurses, emergency workers and other medical providers to deny treatment and services to patients if it conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.

It all starts with a workplace injury. Somebody forgets to wear their safety goggles, or touches something that should absolutely, positively, never ever be touched. And once that happens, a chain of events follows, most of them bad.

A look at how Lehigh Valley health care institutions are facing a projected nursing shortage.

St. Luke’s University Health Network performs the highest number of breast and lung cancer surgeries in the Lehigh Valley, while Lehigh Valley Health Network performs the most brain, colon, liver, pancreas, rectum and stomach cancer procedures, according to new data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. The data, released May 23, compares the volumes of 11 types of ...