health care

America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously expensi...

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train der...

UPMC Cole and Penn Highlands Elk are both part of a federal prescription drug price reduction program, but a national study released earlier this week...

Though it didn’t gain traction last session, one legislator is again pushing for mandating that health insurance covers telehealth-related costs in Pe...

The receiver appointed by a federal judge to oversee Bonamour Health Group properties, including Lakeview in Smethport, has reported the six nursing f...

BRISTOL, Va. (TNS) — In the small Appalachian city of Bristol, City Council member Neal Osborne left a meeting on the morning of Jan. 3 and rushed him...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it has enrolled 16,167 Pennsylvania veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (H.E.L.P.) Subcommittee on Children & Fa...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS), the healthcare system consisting of Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean General Hosp...

With more than 415 rural hospitals on the brink of closure in 2024, Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) used 2023 to be a year of progress, growth...

NEW YORK (TNS) — During the third week of March 2020, with little public debate and less warning, Americans were told to stay in their homes indefinit...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced that several provisions he advocated for have advanced through the Senate as part of the second wav...

U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson has issued an emergency order appointing a receiver to assume control of six healthcare and rehabilitation centers l...

Pennsylvania’s health system may get a deregulatory boost if nurse practitioners get their way, but it’s only one step toward lowering costs and makin...

(TNS) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is warning that almost 11,000 infants and young children have ended up in the emergency room over t...

Officials with Upper Allegheny Health System are highlighting a positive response to a potential safety concern last week. In the early morning of Mar...

For an aging state that’s seen depopulation in the majority of its counties, Pennsylvania’s health care system struggles to meet the needs of its resi...

Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS), parent company of Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean General Hospital (OGH), welcomed Dr. Robert ...

(TNS) — The state Department of Health said Tuesday it won’t stop the closing of the maternity unit at Penn Highlands Elk Hospital in St. Marys as cou...

(TNS) — Penn Highlands Healthcare hospital system reported a loss from operations of $11.8 million for the three months ending Dec. 31, fresh evidence...