The second phase of construction is set to begin on the new Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hecktown Oaks in Lower Nazareth Township. The new hospital is scheduled to open in the summer of next year.

St. Luke’s Physician Group of Bethlehem has acquired Dublin Internal Medicine. The practice will now be known as St. Luke’s Dublin Internal Medicine.

Similar to the work he is doing with LVHN, Dr. Patruno will create and lead newly established wellness programing and professional fulfillment initiatives to help fight physician and health care provider burnout.

Two Lehigh Valley health care providers have made the first ever Newsweek list of Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers. Good Shepherd Rehabilitation of Allentown and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest both made the Top 10 list of providers of inpatient rehabilitation care in Pennsylvania for 2020.

Lehigh Valley Health Network said it is offering the first Concussion and Head Trauma Program in the Pocono region.

Stephen Tang, president and CEO of Orasure, told Lehigh Valley Business the company expects to add 177 employees to the payroll, largely in manufacturing, quality control and regulatory affairs.

OraSure Technologies of Bethlehem said it expects to launch its COVID-19 rapid antigen in-home self-test by the fourth quarter of this year.

Lehigh Valley Health Network has opened a new inpatient oncology unit at its Cedar Crest hospital campus. The new unit is on the fifth floor of the Kasych Family Pavilion. The new unit not only adds beds, but includes all private rooms to give patients and their families more comfort.

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art rehabilitation Hospital in Center Valley on land it owns across from the Promenade Shops – replacing its South Allentown rehabilitation hospital, which opened in 1983.

Starting this fall, Penn State Lehigh Valley will offer health services as an option for its bachelor of science in business degree program.