Healthcare
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Philadelphia Magazine: UHS’ Social Media Senior Manager Sets Preserving Healthy Lifestyle As Her Number One Priority
Laurie Roma, social media senior manager at King of Prussia-based Universal Health Services, turns to swimming and running to stay on top of her game, writes Laura Brzyski for the Philadelphia Magazine. As a child, Roma was a competitive gymnast. In high school, she continued to maintain her active lifestyle as a cheerleader, part of…
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San Jose-Based Anpac Bio Is Expanding to East Coast, Plans to Move Headquarters to Lower Gwynedd
Anpac Bio, a biotechnology firm based in San Jose, is planning to move its headquarters to a newly- constructed office facility in Lower Gwynedd in March next year, writes Katie Park for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The company that specializes in early cancer detection signed a 10-year lease for space at the Spring House Innovation Park…
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Gladwyne-based Hosts for Hospitals Matches Volunteer Host Families with Patients and Their Loved Ones in Need of Lodging
Gladwyne-based Hosts for Hospitals program recruits local volunteers and matches them up with hospital patients and their families in need of a place to stay, writes Melissa Jacobs for the Main Line Today. The program was founded nearly two decades ago by a leukemia survivor, Mike Aichenbaum, whose family had to pay $20,000 in rent…
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Willow Grove YMCA Enters Final Stages of Construction
The development of the new, $43 million Willow Grove YMCA that will replace the Abington and Hatboro facilities is a month away from completion, writes Natalie Kostelni for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The project is the latest step in the Greater Philadelphia YMCA’s efforts to build new and to upgrade existing facilities across the region.…
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Bryn Mawr College Scientist Who Discovered Y-Chromosome Featured in Bill Bryson’s New Book
Bill Bryson, the famous American-British travel writer and humorist, has a new book out with several local connections, including a Bryn Mawr scientist, writes Tom Avril for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Body: A Guide for Occupants was released last week and offers a fresh look at everything from heart and lungs to pills, to dieting.…
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Horsham Health-Care Software Firm Open to Joint Venture to Get Its Suicide Prevention Program to Veterans As Soon As Possible
Horsham-based CarePartners Plus is open to considering a joint venture or strategic partnership that would help it get its suicide prevention software to veterans as soon as possible, writes Erin Arvedlund for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. According to the founder and CEO Michael Manning, the health-care software firm is ready to move ahead after years of waiting…
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King of Prussia-based company launches ground-breaking maternity gown
It may not not make childbirth easier, but it may make it a bit more comfortable. The nation’s largest healthcare linen rental and laundry service ImageFIRST, based in King of Prussia, has launched Comfort Care Maternity Gown. “In designing the Comfort Care Maternity Gown, we spoke with countless clinicians who spend their days working with…
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CHOP starts King of Prussia campus expansion, breaks ground on new inpatient facility in Upper Merion
Last week, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia started the expansion of its King of Prussia campus by breaking ground on a new inpatient facility in Upper Merion Township, writes Michael Tanenbaum for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The project was announced last June. The new, 250,000-square-foot facility hospital will have 52 inpatient beds. Of those, 16…
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Linder Opticians of Willow Grove going strong after more than a century
By Rick Woelfel When Linder Opticians opened for business in 1913, America was a different place. Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States. World War I was still a year off. And women couldn’t vote. Over a century later, Linder is still going strong, by emphasizing the personal service that has been so…
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Project HOPE celebrates 30 years of HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness
Project HOPE, a program of Family Services of Montgomery County, will celebrate 30 years of advances in HIV/AIDS education and prevention on Wednesday, September 18. In partnership with the AIDS Fund, Project HOPE will host a commemoration on the Swede Street entrance of the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown from 10-11am. Montgomery County Commissioner Valerie…
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Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services to host naloxone distribution event in Ambler
The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Offices of Drug & Alcohol and Public Health are sponsoring a free Naloxone distribution and education event on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 in Ambler. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in deaths resulting from heroin and prescription opioids. This epidemic has spread across…
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Conshohocken resident named new medical director of VNA
VNA Philadelphia Welcomes a new Medical Director, Dr. Nicholas Ligato. Dr. Ligato joined VNA Philadelphia as the Medical Director of Hospice & Palliative Care in September 2019. As Medical Director, Dr. Ligato is responsible for the comprehensive medical direction of hospice and palliative care at VNA Philadelphia. With 15 private rooms at the Falls Center…
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Color blind: Student-produced video captures a life-changing moment
A simple act of kindness, captured on camera in December at Neumann University, has become the pivotal moment in a student-produced video that is now nominated for a national award, according to Neumann University. “Jake Loburak: The Colorblind Videographer,” a 90-second video produced by communications and digital media (CDM) majors Sean Spence and Jake Loburak, is one…
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‘Eye on Caring’ the theme for Harcum College’s 2019-20 lecture series
Harcum College’s annual lecture series returns with the theme “Eye on Caring” – a slate of four free events with topics related to caring. The first event, “The Business of Caring,” takes place Thursday, Sept. 26, at 3 PM in the Strauss Family Rotunda of the Trout Library. The speakers include three women in leadership…
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Plymouth Meeting-based BrainSpark Health helps people fight addiction with new treatment
BrainSpark Health, a Plymouth Meeting addiction treatment center, is helping people fight addiction using a new treatment that accelerates and improves the detoxification process, writes Michael Bradley for the Main Line Today. BrainSpark was founded by Rich Masterson, who knows how tough addiction is to conquer from his own experiences with his mother and uncle,…
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KeystoneCare Home Care and Hospice announces Huma Ansari, MD, as Medical Director of Palliative Care
KeystoneCare Home Care and Hospice (KeystoneCare LLC), a leader in Home Care, Hospice, Palliative Care, Private Duty care, along with Keystone InTouch Telehealth, located in Wyndmoor, PA, announces the appointment of Huma Ansari, MD, as Medical Director of Palliative Care. Palliative Care, which can be referred to as “supportive care” and “pre-hospice”, has received national…
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Tinicum Township saves and renovates the Lazaretto Quarantine Station
Tinicum Township, a very small community near Philadelphia was able to save the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere. The community is now transforming the 18th -century structure into township offices, writes Kristen De Groot for The Philadelphia Tribune. Tinicum Township wants to renovate the Lazaretto Quarantine Station as part of a broader plan…
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Should PA ‘carve out’ behavioral health from physical health or shift to ‘whole person’ model?
By Kimberly Palmiero and Ramesh Santanam For Public Source Two legislators are promoting a proposal to change the way thousands of the state’s most vulnerable people get services for mental illness and addiction treatment across the Commonwealth. At issue is how the state delivers health services to Medicaid recipients, and whether they should merge the program offering…
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