health care

Ensuring our state’s seniors and individuals with disabilities have access to high-quality, affordable and comprehensive health care is one of my most...

DuBOIS — Expectant parents are invited to an informal gathering at Penn Highlands DuBois to meet the hospital’s labor and delivery providers. The even...

State governments spent $38.5 billion to increase Medicaid payouts in 2022, but there is little oversight of how the money is being used, according to...

(TNS) — It seems far-fetched at first — that $4 million could wipe out $400 million in medical debt held by Pennsylvanians who might otherwise be houn...

Lawsuits, Medicare inspection reports and allegations of unpaid employees are painting a troubling picture of Lakeview Healthcare, a nursing facility ...

Emergency medical services professionals have a very particular set of skills. It’s a skill set in demand high enough to constitute what many have cal...

DuBOIS — The CEO of Penn Highlands testified recently before a Senate committee on issues that threaten rural healthcare, and strategies that could be...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Bradford’s Dr. Jill Owens, president of Upper Allegheny Health System, was announced as the first honoree of the Olean YMCA’s 38th annua...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that is crippling operation...

HARRISBURG — Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, announced he will convene a meeting of the EMS Task Force at 6 p.m. Feb. 15 at the McKean County Depar...

HARRISBURG — Pennie, Pennsylvania’s official health insurance marketplace, announced a record of nearly 435,000 state residents are now covered throug...

COUDERSPORT — Access to quality women’s and maternal health services has increasingly become unobtainable for many women in the United States, especia...

Personal, something that belongs to me and nobody else; something that concern’s my private life. Healthcare is personal, it’s private. A news release...

It comes as no surprise that the COVID pandemic was a costly one for healthcare facilities across the region. The toll it has taken was laid out in a ...

DUBOIS — Mark Norman, chief operating officer of Penn Highlands Healthcare, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Hospital and Healthsys...

Pennsylvania now faces a new No. 1 killer of those in the prime of their lives: accidental drug overdoses fueled by the prevalence of fentanyl. Accord...

(TNS) — An innovative plan to help Pennsylvanians with crippling medical debt is delayed but not dead, supporters say. The plan calls for using state ...

PHILADELPHIA — This winter, in addition to the COVID-19 and flu vaccines, FDA-approved RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) immunizations are now availab...

(TNS) — Pennsylvania wants to make changes to its Medicaid programs that would bring groceries to the door of an expecting parent in need or help a fo...

HARRISBURG — A deluge of work that packed dozens of bills in the Pennsylvania General Assembly into a few days meant that legislators voted based on l...