Hospitals

Delaware County Memorial Hospital

Ransomware cyberattack disrupts hospitals and clinics in Pennsylvania, four other states

As nonprofit hospitals reap big tax breaks, states scrutinize their required charity spending

Pottstown Hospital Nonprofit

Penn Medicine expected to use Brandywine Hospital for veterans care

Penn Medicine Coatesville VA

Penn Medicine to acquire shuttered Brandywine Hospital from Tower Health

Brandywine Hospital Sale

Penn Medicine stops participating in U.S. News & World Report's hospital rankings

Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine to open mental health care hub at former Mercy Hospital

Penn Medicine mental health

This treatment for an intestinal infection sounds disgusting, but it may be a breakthrough, and it has FDA approval

C. Diff Treatment Vowst

Hospitals must post their prices to every service they provide. But their data isn't always complete or user-friendly

Hospital Price Transparency

End of COVID-19 emergency will usher in changes across the U.S. health system

COVID Emergency Ends

Candida auris, a deadly fungal infection, is spreading rapidly in hospitals. Here's what to know

Candida auris infections

Parents need to ask about guns before letting children visit family and friends, Trinity Health urges

Trinity Gun Safety

Cooper University, Cape Regional health care systems to merge

Cooper Cape Regional Health Merger

Temple University Hospital employees agree to a new contract, avoiding potential strike

Crowded emergency departments can increase patient mortality throughout the hospital, data shows

Emergency Department conditions and inpatient mortality

Delaware County Memorial Hospital emergency operations ordered to be suspended

DCMH ordered to stop emergency services

Judge temporarily halts closure of Delaware County Memorial Hospital

DCMH Crozer Health

Crozer Health to shut down emergency department at Delaware County Memorial Hospital

Crozer Health DCMH Springfield

Cooper University Health Care to expand footprint in Camden with $2 billion project

Cooper Health Expansion Main

CHOP makes progress on plan for 14-story Schuylkill Avenue Research Building next to Roberts Center

CHOP Main Building

Crozer Health, ChristianaCare merger plan dissolves after months of negotiations

Crozer Health ChristianaCare

Chestnut Hill Hospital to be sold to Temple Health, Redeemer and PCOM

Chestnut Hill Hospital Temple

Penn Medicine hospitals named among nation's best for 16th straight year by U.S. News & World Report

HUP Hospital Rankings

Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients, but there's a simple way to stop it

Hospital brush teeth

Pa. bill would end for-profit ownership of health care systems in effort to protect local hospitals

Bill Package Crozer Health

Security failures enabled fatal shooting at Jefferson Hospital, lawsuit claims

Jefferson Hospital Lawsuit Security

COVID-19 cases are spiking, but Philly isn't reinstating a mask mandate

Canyon Atlantic ends pursuit to reopen Tower Health's Brandywine, Jennersville hospitals

Tower Health Brandywine Jennersville hospitals

Tower Heath must resume sale of Brandywine, Jennersville hospitals, judge rules

Tower Health Brandywine Jennersville hospitals

Delaware-based hospital system set to expand footprint into Pennsylvania with purchase of Crozer Health

Crozer Health Purchase Kopp

Pennsylvania sending resources to help overburdened health care workers in Philly region

Pennsylvania hospitals COVID-19

Pennsylvania provides funding to support health care workers, children impacted by substance abuse

Health Care Funding

Children's Health

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia opens Middleman Family Pavilion in King of Prussia

CHOP King of Prussia hospital

Omicron surge may have peaked in the Philly region, but hospitals remain stressed

COVID-19 hospitalizations reach record high in South Jersey as omicron surges

COVID Update Hospitalizations NJ PA

CHOP, Independence executives named among most influential in health care

Madeline Bell Gregory Deavens

FEMA strike teams to aid Pennsylvania hospitals amid COVID-19 surge

Pennsylvania Hospitals COVID-19

Tower Health to shut down Jennersville, Brandywine hospitals after sale falls apart

Tower Health Jennersville Brandywine hospitals

10 Philly-area hospitals recognized for high-quality maternity care by U.S. News & World Report

Best Hospitals Maternity Care

Brandywine, Jennersville hospitals to remain open after Tower Health finds new ownership

Tower Health Brandywine Jennersville hospitals

Temple to open hospital for women's health at former cancer treatment facility

Temple Women's Health Hospital

Patients went into the hospital for care. After testing positive there for COVID, some never came out

COVID-19 Transmission Hospitals

ERs are swamped with seriously ill patients, although many don't have COVID

Emergency Departments COVID-19

Philadelphia Orchestra music healing program expands to more than 70 U.S. hospitals

Philadelphia Orchestra hospitals program

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