Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital has opened the Michael & Christine Perrucci Center for Children’s Health and Wellbeing. 

St. Luke’s University Health Network will open its first walk-in mental health clinic in Lehighton Thursday. 

Mental health is a topic that has reached high priority since the start of the pandemic, prompting companies to look a bit closer at their policies and procedures. While the issue isn’t new, the pandemic has caused a lot of uncertainty in people’s lives and managers need to learn how to approach employees in an empathetic way to find solutions. 

Full Circle Family Fitness (FCTfit) will celebrate its new location at 4140 Sandspring Road, Schnecksville on Saturday with a boot camp to aid the National Alliance of Mental Illness, Lehigh Valley (NAMI LV).

“Eat, sleep, take time off, what doctor does that?” he said. “These are the things we tell our patients to do, but don’t always follow ourselves. In the past, the tradition was if you were not working 25 hours a day, you weren't dedicated. That’s slowly changing.”

The acquisition of Affiliates Clinical Services, PC, became official July 1. The practice has been renamed St. Luke’s Psychiatric Associates – Phillipsburg.

In my opinion there is at least a 20 percent increase, compared to the same period last year, in both our mental health and wellness services,” said Eduardo Espiridion, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Reading Hospital Tower Health.

For most health care workers, a certain amount of risk, including from the coronavirus, is considered part of the job.

Private insurance companies are required by state law to provide behavioral health services in equal measure to physical health services, but state insurance department regulators say that’s not happening.