health care

DuBOIS — As the holidays approach and we begin to gather with family and friends, Penn Highlands Healthcare reminds the community that the risk of con...

PITTSBURGH — A shuffle of top executives at Highmark Health’s Allegheny Health Network continues as the 14-hospital health care system struggles to en...

ST. MARYS — Elk County recently awarded Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), an affiliate of Journey Health System, $50,000 toward its new building project. “...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Dairy farmers are invited to attend Penn State Extension’s “Milk Quality Workshop: Tools to Reduce Mastitis on Your Farm,” which wil...

Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), a member campus of Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS), announced the appointment of Jason Shaffer as admini...

Though payment errors for Medicaid and CHIP can add up to tens of billions of dollars every year, the situation is getting better in Pennsylvania. The...

The term “pandemic” might send shivers down our spines since COVID-19 forever changed the way human beings look at everything from surgical masks to r...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has proposed new staffing rules for nursing homes — including requiring registered nurses to be on site 24 hours a...

The usual suspects are rebuking Israel for “attacks” on hospitals in Gaza. Yet they speak nary a word about a terrorist organization that purposely en...

HARRISBURG — The 2022 State of Children’s Health report is showing an increase in the number of children in Pennsylvania without health insurance, but...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Hundreds of millions of dollars in state money designated for “general support” to the University of Pittsburgh and Temple Universi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Democrats are so accustomed to losing statewide elections in blood-red Mississippi that they hardly get all shook up about a candid...

All three seats for McKean County commissioners are up for election, and voters will select two candidates at the polls. In order of the ballot, Democ...

Children are once again at the front lines of pandemic-era social service cuts, this time in the form of Medicaid restarting its annual eligibility ch...

PITTSBURGH — UPMC Hamot announced the naming of its nine-bed pediatric unit to UPMC Children’s at UPMC Hamot, forming a closer alignment with the spec...

Middle-class retirees have the greatest risk of seeing a lifetime of careful savings vanish in a matter of months if they were to experience a sudden ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist from Baylor College of Medicine, has been receiving a stream of hate mail. Much of it is unhinged, p...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — In a recent American College Health Association report, SUNY Jamestown Community College was featured with other community colleges ...

HARRISBURG — Emergency medical services (EMS) companies across the commonwealth would see a significant boost in reimbursement rates under legislation...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Wednesday gave final approval to budget-related legislation that boosts Medicaid subsidies for hospital...