Lehigh Valley SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, is following the national organization’s lead in increasing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, and volunteer mentor Lou Allegra is spearheading the effort. 

The new chief financial officer at Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group didn’t start out looking to be in charge of a company’s finances. Nikki Bloom entered the business world with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. 

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has moved two of its outpatient sites in Bethlehem and Bethlehem Township to offer more treatment space for physical therapy and other rehabilitation services. 

State Rep. Jeanne McNeill, (D-Lehigh), today announced the state has awarded $2.75 million in funding to three projects in Lehigh County from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. 

Lehigh Valley Health Network’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital and the intensive care unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Muhlenberg will receive $4.5 million of state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grants for support and expansion of capacity.  

Three projects within the city of Allentown have been awarded funding through the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, totaling $10.5 million, according to state Reps. Peter Schweyer, (D-Lehigh) and Mike Schlossberg, (D-Lehigh) and state Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh), who all secured the funding. 

Allentown-based Buckno Lisicky & Company, and Loch, Elsenbaumer, Newton & Company will merge.

Bethlehem-based MC IT, a business managed IT services company since 2014, and TechCure, Bethlehem, a managed security firm, have merged. 

Jeanne Dzurenko has joined Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network as senior vice president, chief nursing officer. 

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has announced that it has created 835 as a new area code that will eventually serve the same geographic area currently covered by the 610 and 484 area codes.