Robert Kline, 52, of Germansville, was awarded $8.5 million after a jury agreed that doctors at St. Luke’s Hospital in Allentown failed to properly notify him of a mass growing in his bladder.

The Health Resources and Services Administration or HRSA, has awarded St. Luke’s Miners Campus a $1 million grant to help combat the opioid crisis.

Governor Wolf has announced that the state of Pennsylvania will provide $50,000 in funding to purchase vaccines to slow the spread of hepatitis A. Pennsylvania and neighboring state New Jersey are currently in the midst of a hepatitis A outbreak, which was declared in Pennsylvania in May.

An epilepsy monitoring unit or EMU has opened within the Neuroscience Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital−Cedar Crest. 

This summer 20 high school students participated in the Health Career Exploration Program at St. Luke’s University Health Network, which introduces rising seniors in the Allentown and Bethlehem school districts to careers in health care.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner said the agreements follow a costly error that had to be corrected at the end of 2018 by the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau, an independent bureau that helps set workers’ comp premiums in the state.

Northampton County Council approved the contracts to begin construction of a new forensics center/morgue for the county at the Gracedale Nursing Home campus at Upper Nazareth Township.

Pennsylvania is ill-prepared to serve a fast growing-population of older adults, according to state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale. DePasquale released a special report on July 23 that followed up on his 2016 audit of oversight of nursing homes by the state Department of Health.

At Fellowship Community, Mary Kay McMahon oversees an organization that has 360 employees and about 500 residents.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill and other hospitals nationwide will receive up to $750,000 each over a three-year period to develop new rural residency programs, according to a news release from the Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded approximately $20 million in Rural Residency Planning and Development Program grants to recipients in 21 ...