A tight physician labor market is spurring competition for talent and making recruiting a challenge, officials at local health networks said.

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.

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.

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.

Coordinated Health and Atlantic Health System will open an ambulatory surgery center in November in Lopatcong Township, N.J., the health networks announced.

St. Luke’s University Health Network Care Now-Center Valley will move to a new location in Upper Saucon Township.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said it has approved 2019 individual and small group health insurance rates under the Affordable Care Act that include relatively stable premiums and more choices in some counties.

The president of Easton Hospital was asked to step down and two other top administrators left this month, according to the hospital and published reports.

Pennsylvania’s largest insurers have agreed to stop requiring pre-authorization for people seeking certain medications used to treat opioid addiction, the Wolf administration recently announced.