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.

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.

Persistence and conviction have made Nicole Huff a leader. A top executive with the St. Luke's University Health Network, she is also a mother of two, teacher, volunteer and advocate. LVB spent time with Huff to learn more about what motivates her and how she finds balance.

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