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Getting hammered every year with escalating health insurance costs for employers? There may be a better way. tinyurl.com/3534snrn
Promise of savings draws Pittsburgh-area employers to alternative health insurance plan
‘We’re looking at a catastrophic number.’
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October 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Getting hammered every year with escalating health insurance costs for employers? There may be a better way. tinyurl.com/3534snrn
Allegheny Health Network is affiliating with Heritage Valley Health System, a Beaver-based network that has experienced financial difficulties in recent years. tinyurl.com/mve3cyyw
It’s official: Allegheny Health to affiliate with Heritage Valley
Highmark and Allegheny Health Network officials have scheduled a news conference Thursday morning in Beaver, where they will announce an affiliation agreement...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Allegheny Health Network is affiliating with Heritage Valley Health System, a Beaver-based network that has experienced financial difficulties in recent years. tinyurl.com/mve3cyyw
A Pittsburgh health and wellness company is expanding again, this time into Ohio. Here are the details. tinyurl.com/mvuyzx6w
Expansion continues for Pittsburgh workplace wellness company
Integrated Health 21 LLC, a South Side-based preventive health care and wellness company, is continuing its growth phase with the recent acquisition of...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A Pittsburgh health and wellness company is expanding again, this time into Ohio. Here are the details. tinyurl.com/mvuyzx6w
The possibility of government subsidies being extended for health insurance dims as a shutdown of the federal government looms. Get the details here. tinyurl.com/fm8rzkvt
Obamacare tax credits become a red line as government shutdown looms
Andrea, a 44-year-old Washington County mother is “not asking for sympathy,” she said as talks to keep the federal government open past Wednesday...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The possibility of government subsidies being extended for health insurance dims as a shutdown of the federal government looms. Get the details here. tinyurl.com/fm8rzkvt
Former CEO at Mercer County, Pennsylvania health clinic pleads guilty to charges that cost the health care center more than $2 million. tinyurl.com/2sd8cmyw
Former Mercer County health clinic CEO pleads guilty to charges in federal court
A Mercer County man has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and a form of money laundering involving the health center where he once served as CEO.
John Laeng,...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Former CEO at Mercer County, Pennsylvania health clinic pleads guilty to charges that cost the health care center more than $2 million. tinyurl.com/2sd8cmyw
Pittsburgh-based UPMC is preparing to move into Ohio with the acquisition of three hospitals in Steubenville. Get the details here. tinyurl.com/yvk9ta43
UPMC in talks to acquire Ohio hospitals
Health care giant UPMC is on the move again, this time with plans to push into Ohio.
UPMC is negotiating to acquire Trinity Health System’s medical...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Pittsburgh-based UPMC is preparing to move into Ohio with the acquisition of three hospitals in Steubenville. Get the details here. tinyurl.com/yvk9ta43
A shortage of hospital labor and delivery units; an increase in roadside births; the potential closing of a freestanding birth center: what's going on with women's health in rural Pennsylvania? tinyurl.com/26hjph8n
September 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A shortage of hospital labor and delivery units; an increase in roadside births; the potential closing of a freestanding birth center: what's going on with women's health in rural Pennsylvania? tinyurl.com/26hjph8n
Pennsylvania wants to expand internet access to every home and business in the state wilh a lot less money than first anticipated. Here's the how and why. tinyurl.com/3zfjn6t9
Pennsylvania’s internet connection plan submitted to feds: ‘It’s bonkers’
Pennsylvania’s plan to give every home and business a speedy internet connection was submitted to the federal government for funding by Friday’s...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Pennsylvania wants to expand internet access to every home and business in the state wilh a lot less money than first anticipated. Here's the how and why. tinyurl.com/3zfjn6t9
Gathering stones and fighting hunger in rural Pennsylvania: get the story here. tinyurl.com/2cks8r4a
Fighting hunger in rural Pennsylvania
Volunteers are scrambling to fill the gaps between rising costs, shrinking funds and rumbling stomachs.
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September 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gathering stones and fighting hunger in rural Pennsylvania: get the story here. tinyurl.com/2cks8r4a
Health care giant UPMC last year promised to raise wages for entry level nurses to $50 an hour. A unionization vote at Magee-Womens Hospital is complicating that promise. tinyurl.com/bddz2s9s
Union vote complicates UPMC promise of $52-an-hour starting wage
‘Everything is reduced to the bargaining table.’
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September 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Health care giant UPMC last year promised to raise wages for entry level nurses to $50 an hour. A unionization vote at Magee-Womens Hospital is complicating that promise. tinyurl.com/bddz2s9s
Think Pittsburgh is a hardhat worker town? Have a peek at JV Manufacturing Co. Inc., which is leading the way in advanced manufacturing practices in Western Pennsylvania. tinyurl.com/y7hamzuh
Smart manufacturing challenges Pittsburgh’s blue collar worker image: ‘Not the same industry’
No boots needed inside.
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August 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Think Pittsburgh is a hardhat worker town? Have a peek at JV Manufacturing Co. Inc., which is leading the way in advanced manufacturing practices in Western Pennsylvania. tinyurl.com/y7hamzuh
Three fading coal towns in rural Pennsylvania could lose their only local pharmacy as the owners take PBM Express Scripts to court. tinyurl.com/32rff578
Rural Pennsylvania drugstore chain challenges big PBM in court
CENTRAL CITY, Pa. — At the senior center on Sunshine Avenue, 86-year-old Dan Bulger worried about the future of the town’s only drugstore...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Three fading coal towns in rural Pennsylvania could lose their only local pharmacy as the owners take PBM Express Scripts to court. tinyurl.com/32rff578
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh names a new director, John C. Byrd, who is from the University of Cincinnati. tinyurl.com/mr3pzy2v
New director named at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Noted researcher and clinician John C. Byrd has been named UPMC Hillman Cancer Center director, replacing Robert L. Ferris, who left UPMC last year. Dr....
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August 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh names a new director, John C. Byrd, who is from the University of Cincinnati. tinyurl.com/mr3pzy2v
A second Pennsylvania couple delivers a baby on the side of the road in Elk County a year after the local hospital closed its OB unit. tinyurl.com/2tzutb3a
Another roadside birth renews call for maternity unit in Elk County
JOHNSONSBURG, Pa. — Seth Peterson was speeding to Penn Highlands DuBois Hospital on winding Route 219 with his wife, Alexis, who was having...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A second Pennsylvania couple delivers a baby on the side of the road in Elk County a year after the local hospital closed its OB unit. tinyurl.com/2tzutb3a
Interesting research here into the societal impact of budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health. tinyurl.com/8pmcby6t
Potential Trade-Offs of Proposed Cuts to the US National Institutes of Health
This qualitative systems modeling analysis examines potential long-term impacts of National Institutes of Health funding constraints in biomedical innovation and health care costs.
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July 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Interesting research here into the societal impact of budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health. tinyurl.com/8pmcby6t
How many hospitalized patients should be assigned to a nurse? The issue has emerged in the unionization drive at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh tinyurl.com/3huc26sz
How many nurses are enough? Staffing ratios emerge as unionization issue in Pittsburgh
When two nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital posted on social media recently that they’re being run ragged and patient care strained by the Pittsburgh...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How many hospitalized patients should be assigned to a nurse? The issue has emerged in the unionization drive at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh tinyurl.com/3huc26sz
In a reversal, UPMC argues to increase the size of a new bargaining unit at Magee-Womens Hospital. Here's the details. tinyurl.com/4bphn6mu
In strategy shift, UPMC argues for bigger union bargaining unit at Magee-Womens
Hospital giant UPMC has long been clear in opposition to union representation of its workforce — that is, until the past week.
In a two-day...
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July 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In a reversal, UPMC argues to increase the size of a new bargaining unit at Magee-Womens Hospital. Here's the details. tinyurl.com/4bphn6mu
A 55-year slog to unionize Pittsburgh's hospitals, now owned by UPMC, may be closing in on victory. Chaos at the National Labor Relations Board may stand in the way. Read more here. tinyurl.com/45a8mnyk
NLRB hearing continues for UPMC Magee-Womens' union vote
Organized labor’s long slog to unionize UPMC’s flagship Oakland hospitals continued Friday with a National Labor Relations Board hearing that...
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June 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A 55-year slog to unionize Pittsburgh's hospitals, now owned by UPMC, may be closing in on victory. Chaos at the National Labor Relations Board may stand in the way. Read more here. tinyurl.com/45a8mnyk
Not sure what to make of this. We'll see if the pause holds. tinyurl.com/2bt996kh
N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Not sure what to make of this. We'll see if the pause holds. tinyurl.com/2bt996kh
A Western Pennsylvania Teamsters local wants to carve out a bit of the health care industry from SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania by organizing a small medical clinic in Westmoreland County. Here are the details. tinyurl.com/4yxu4sec
Teamsters file to represent AHN clinic nurses
A Westmoreland County-based labor organization is stepping outside its traditional coverage areas in petitioning to unionize a medical office in New Kensington.
The...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A Western Pennsylvania Teamsters local wants to carve out a bit of the health care industry from SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania by organizing a small medical clinic in Westmoreland County. Here are the details. tinyurl.com/4yxu4sec
Busy signal: The ambitious Biden-era plan to get every U.S. address connected to speedy internet service is taking longer to roll out than planned. Here's why. tinyurl.com/4j97hm6e
‘Race to the bottom’: Pa. internet companies scramble to rebid expansion work
Getting every U.S. home and business connected to the internet will take longer than planned as Pennsylvania and every other state scrambles to compete...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Busy signal: The ambitious Biden-era plan to get every U.S. address connected to speedy internet service is taking longer to roll out than planned. Here's why. tinyurl.com/4j97hm6e
Amid rising losses from operations, a Clearfield County health system furloughs staff at two Pittsburgh area hospitals. Here are the details. tinyurl.com/58y9pbvv
Two Pittsburgh area hospitals cut 36 positions amid rising losses
Penn Highlands Healthcare cut its workforce at hospitals in Washington and Fayette counties by about 36 positions Wednesday, citing ongoing post-COVID-19...
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June 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Amid rising losses from operations, a Clearfield County health system furloughs staff at two Pittsburgh area hospitals. Here are the details. tinyurl.com/58y9pbvv
Medical clinics serving Pittsburgh's distressed neighborhoods are threatened by the proposed cuts to Medicaid, officials said Tuesday. Get the details here. tinyurl.com/snb544hs
‘Public health emergency’: Medicaid cuts would cripple Pittsburgh medical clinics, officials say
‘We are truly under attack right now.’
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June 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Medical clinics serving Pittsburgh's distressed neighborhoods are threatened by the proposed cuts to Medicaid, officials said Tuesday. Get the details here. tinyurl.com/snb544hs
Five dead, 'catastrophic' damage in tiny Triadelphia, near Wheeling, West Virginia over the weekend. tinyurl.com/4xbzf36r
5 killed in ‘catastrophic’ flooding in Wheeling as region remains under flood watch
Flash flooding caused by torrential rainfall late Saturday killed five people in northern West Virginia and rescue crews were searching for three others...
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June 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Five dead, 'catastrophic' damage in tiny Triadelphia, near Wheeling, West Virginia over the weekend. tinyurl.com/4xbzf36r
Hundreds rally in Pittsburgh Sunday to protest the ICE crackdown on migrants in the U.S. without proper documentation and Israel's occupation of Gaza. tinyurl.com/3hsj79j8
Hundreds rally in Downtown Pittsburgh to condemn ICE deportations
Several hundred people rallied at the City-County Building on Grant Street, Downtown, on Sunday in support of migrants throughout the U.S. who are being...
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June 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hundreds rally in Pittsburgh Sunday to protest the ICE crackdown on migrants in the U.S. without proper documentation and Israel's occupation of Gaza. tinyurl.com/3hsj79j8