The Tower Health Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Dr. Charles Barbera as president and CEO of Reading Hospital, effective April 4. 

Pete Molinaro will join Tower Health’s board of directors on March 1 for a three-year term. 

Tower Health has promoted two physicians to vice president. 

Reading-based Tower Health’s bariatric surgery center has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications. 

Dr. Charles F. Barbera has been named chair of the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF) Board of Directors for a one-year term.  

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. 

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. 

Reading-based Tower Health will close two Chester County hospitals by the end of January after a sales agreement fell through. 

Reading Hospital has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for Pediatric Asthma Certification.  

Tower Health will close all its Urgent Care locations on Sundays beginning this week due to ongoing staffing challenges.