Pennsylvania hospitals, while facing financial challenges in the post-pandemic world, still support one in 10 jobs and contribute a fifth of the state’s gross domestic product. 

The healthcare system is facing another shortage and one school is paying students to study while another is opening a new program. The shortage – those that take your blood. 

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

Health networks are looking at creative ways to support an increasing demand for mental health treatment at a time when healthcare workers are in short supply.

Workers are in short supply and employers are pulling out all the stops to attract talent. Just drive around. The question is why. Local schools and county workforce and economic development organizations are working together to answer the question and find short and long-term solutions.

Three EMTs are currently being sponsored to become paramedics. The program has spots for 10 students and tuition for each would normally be more than $800, he said. Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Service is recruiting students for a new program it hopes will help it ease the shortage of emergency medical technicians, or EMTs. The ...