Tower Health and Drexel University have entered into an agreement to acquire St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. The 189-bed, 144 year old for-profit children’s hospital, located in the city of Philadelphia, was sold to the two organizations for $50 million.

Tower Health, the Berks County-based health network, has established the Tower Health Transplant Institute, which will become the new home for the former Hahnemann University Hospital kidney and liver transplant program. Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital, established in 1885, announced in June that it would be closing because of financial difficulties. The Hahnemann transplant program’s team ...

Reading Hospital, the acute-care hospital of Tower Health in Reading, has hired a child-life specialist to support pediatric patients who may be experiencing anxiety during their stay in the emergency department.

Reading Hospital President and CEO William M. Jennings has personally donated $2,797.00 to the hospital’s employee assistance fund. Jennings presented his check to Katherine Thomas, president of the Reading Hospital Foundation on Aug. 21.  The donation was the result of Jennings’ pledge to donate $1 to the fund for every run scored in the Reading Hospital Employee softball leagues’ 2019 season.

All Tower Health hospitals and physicians will now use the Epic electronic health record platform in order to share and manage patient records.

Tower Health, the Berks County-based health network, has announced it will assume responsibility for the majority of resident physicians displaced by the closing of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, according to a press release. Philadelphia Academic Health System, the owner of Hahnemann University Hospital, said on June 26th that the 171-year old, 495-bed hospital would ...

The number of hepatitis A cases reported in the state since January of 2018 is 171, according to the May 20 announcement by the state’s Department of Health.