The last time Lehigh University opened a new school was about 75 years ago. That will change in fall 2020 when the Bethlehem university accepts the first students to its College of Health.
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Health Care
St. Luke’s opens 16th Care Now
St. Luke's University Health Network plans to open a St. Luke's Care Now on Monday in Lopatcong, New Jersey
Read More »LVHN renames Children’s Hospital for developer and wife
Lehigh Valley Health Network announced today it received one of the largest donations in its history from developer and philanthropists J.B. Reilly and his wife, Kathleen, which will be used to support enhancements to its Children's Hospital.
Read More »Area hospitals get annual Leapfrog report card on patient safety
Would you rather go to a hospital that gets an A for patient safety or an F?
Read More »Montgomery County blood products company acquired
Biological Specialty Corp., a Colmar-based company that has supplied human blood and other biological products to researchers for 37 years, was acquired by BioIVT of Westbury, N.Y.
Read More »Company brings programs, classes direct to the workplace
For the past two years, it's not been unusual on temperate days to see employees at Penn Treaty Network America riding stationary bicycles in the company parking lot during their lunch break as an instructor guides them up and down imaginary hills.
Read More »Physician shortage prompts regional solutions
A tight physician labor market is spurring competition for talent and making recruiting a challenge, officials at local health networks said.
Read More »Tower Health, Drexel pick site for medical school
Reading-based Tower Health announced it has selected the location for the Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health. It will be at the Knitting Mills.
Read More »Study shows rise in physician burnout, dissatisfaction
Physicians are increasingly dissatisfied with their profession, fueled in part by the business and regulation of health care and greater demand to report data for electronic health records, according to a study released today by Geneia, a Harrisburg-based health care analytics company.
Read More »Q&A: Sharon Ali, CEO of Prime Wellness of Pennsylvania
When the Pennsylvania Department of Health awarded the first 12 permits to companies to grow and process medical marijuana in 2017, Berks County got a bumper crop. Two companies, Prime Wellness of Pennsylvania in South Heidelberg Township and Franklin Labs LLC in Reading, were top scorers in the first phase of the state's medical marijuana program.
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