The pressure is on for hospitals, doctors, and insurers to be more transparent about their prices. LVB talked to health care experts and local health care networks to get their take on the president's push for more easily accessible numbers.

Health care professionals interviewed by Lehigh Valley Business feel awareness of the risk of workplace violence in the health care arena is lacking. And they believe that training in how to handle workplace assaults needs to be a bigger part of the health care landscape.

Lehigh Valley Health Network has announced a five-year strategic affiliation with CVS Health, building on an existing relationship between the two entities.

Geisinger’s board of directors has appointed Dr. Jaewon Ryu as president and CEO. Ryu, who has served as Geisinger’s interim president and CEO since November 2018 and executive vice president and chief medical officer since September 2016, becomes the seventh CEO in Geisinger’s 104-year history.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono’s Monroe County Hospice House will resume inpatient care pending final state regulatory approvals.

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.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled on Friday that Pittsburgh-based UPMC can stop accepting Highmark Health-insured patients by the end of the month.

Cannabidiol Oil – or CBD oil as it is commonly called – is hot right now. People are buying it, selling it and investing in it.

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.