Dr. David Talenti, a gastroenterologist who practices in Wayne County, was inaugurated as the 172nd president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society on Jan. 8.  

Reading-based Tower Health's former vice president for nursing operations joins Penn State Health as the new chief nursing officer for the Hershey-based health system’s upcoming Lancaster Medical Center on Jan. 17. 

The lobby of the under-construction Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital will be named for Al Douglass and Jill Raker Hudders Douglass in recognition of a generous gift they made as part of the Hope Starts Here capital campaign to fund the new facility. 

Northampton County is one of the latest 10 counties to join the $26 billion historic national opioid settlement, bringing the total to 60 out of the state’s 67 counties to do so. 

Dr. Diedra McCafferty, has been named Network Medical Director of Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine for St. Luke’s University Health Network. 

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) opened its new Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit today to provide care to children and adolescents experiencing serious mental, emotional or behavioral symptoms.  

AccentCare, a provider of home health, hospice, and personal care services, with offices in the Lehigh Valley and Southcentral Pa., today announced that all organizations within its family of brands have unified under the AccentCare brand.  

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) has formed a singular Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organization called Lehigh Valley Health Network–Emergency Medical Services (LVHN–EMS). 

Tower Health opened a satellite office of Penn Transplant Institute at Reading Hospital after the closure of Tower Health Transplant Institute in August, providing pre- and post-transplant care for kidney and liver procedures at Reading Hospital, Tower Health reported today. 

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.