Healthcare
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Rep Costello: Ensuring 21st Century Medical Innovation
By Rep. Ryan Costello, Pennsylvania’s Sixth District Creating a new locally developed heart valve, finding a personalized cure to an individual’s battle with arthritis, or even breakthroughs in the mapping of the human genome – these are medical modernizations that American scientists and researchers are developing daily. We have seen medical advancements accelerate over the…
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Chester County Hospital Salutes Wounded Warriors
“As an organization, we recognize that we are servant leaders for our community. We are the 5th largest employer in Chester County, and so we have the human resources to help people from all walks of life.” Those are the words of Jackie Felicetti, Director of Human Resources and Organizational Development (HROD) for Chester County…
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Main Line Health’s Paoli Hospital Is Most Profitable Suburban Hospitals
The financially healthiest hospitals in suburban Philadelphia are actually not-for-profit, while those operating for profit struggled the most last year, according to a new Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council report covered by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Main Line Health was “easily the most profitable suburban health system,” the article stated, with its Paoli Hospital…
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Physiotherapy Corp. Rebranded As Physio
The 25-year-old Exton-based provider of rehabilitation services to help people move at the speed of their own lives is itself moving at the speed of business, its nationwide network of 540 clinics with a new name, logo and tagline. Physiotherapy Corp., now known simply as Physio, promises to help patients of all ages “Live Better,…
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Universal Health Services CEO Sees Retail Clinics Pushing Healthcare To Adapt
A wave of retailers offering a checkup before their customers check out is threatening the status quo of the healthcare establishment, but the leader of Universal Health Services of King of Prussia, a healthcare industry heavyweight, says bring it on. American healthcare needs a prescription for adaptability, Universal Health Services CEO Alan B. Miller told…
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Endo International Purchasing Yet Another Pill Maker For $8.05 Billion
Following a prescription to break into the world’s top five generic pharmaceutical businesses, today Endo International (Nasdaq:ENDP) swallowed its fourth generics firm in recent months, buying Par Pharmaceutical Holdings for $8.05 billion. The deal adds nearly 100 oral solid and injectable generic pharmaceuticals to the Dublin, Ireland-based company whose U.S. headquarters is in Malvern, according to…
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Chesco Leads Way On Saving Lives After Heroin Overdoses With Naloxone
Chester County leaders have ripped through bureaucratic red tape to save lives and give residents who have overdosed on heroin a second chance at life. State Sen. Andy Dinniman and the West Chester director of the Good Fellowship EMS Training Institute recently championed a successful effort to speed up the process of getting the heroin…
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Nonprofit Group Hands Out “A” Grades to Best Hospitals in Chester County
Wondering what the best hospitals in Chester County are? Your life and health are safest in the hands of physicians in West Chester, Bryn Mawr and Media, according to a new report card that graded suburban hospitals on how well they ensure patients’ wellbeing. Of the medical facilities in and closest to Chester County, Bryn…
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Brandywine Consignment Shop Breaks Ground on “Little Yellow House” Expansion
The little yellow house officially known as the Brandywine Consignment Shop in Downingtown has long had a big impact on the health of Chester County, and a Wednesday groundbreaking ceremony will help the 14-year-old shopping destination grow its small physical space to match its big reputation. At 1:30 p.m. today volunteers broke ground on the five-month…
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California Investor Sees Medical Real Estate in Chester County as “Low-Risk”
There’s money to be made in medical real estate these days, and Chester County has recently become a hot spot for investors to put their cash. With its $18.5 million purchase of the 73,326-square-foot Merion Building in King of Prussia from O’Neill Properties still fresh in the books, California-based American Healthcare Investors just poured more money into the…
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Wayne Health IT Company Precyse Creates One-Stop Platform
While information dysfunction continues to spread from one healthcare provider to another, Wayne-based health information technology company Precyse has come up with the industry’s only antidote, according to a Virtual-Strategy Magazine report. Having launched twice as many of its one-stop health information management platforms over the past six months, Precyse is increasingly becoming the go-to resource…
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Workers’ Comp Provider GENEX Services Answers Tough Emergency Questions
In the scramble of a medical emergency at work, do you escort the injured person to the hospital in a company vehicle, call an ambulance or request first responders to bring in a helicopter? It’s a difficult call with far-reaching health and financial ramifications, and now — for the first time in the workers’ compensation…
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Wayne Ad Exec Stars In Aetna Appeal To LGBT Couples
A local ad executive is promoting a new corporate message — but this time from the other side of the camera. Viamark Philadelphia owner Stephen Facenda and his 18-year partner Todd Babish, vice president of client services, star in a targeted TV campaign by Aetna marketing the health care provider’s “Be Proud. Be Well.” message to lesbian,…
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Johnson & Johnson DePuy Synthes Shows The Future Of Patient Care
Johnson & Johnson is well known for its care products, but the company also provides many developments that are less well known, that help thousands every year. Johnson & Johnson DePuy Synthes is one of the leading innovators in orthopedic devices and has just added four new products to its deformity portfolio as well as…
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Teleflex Brings a New Era to Laparoscopic Surgery
Surgeons are always on the lookout for innovative new devices that could help the more than 2.9 million people that have laparoscopic surgery in the U.S. each year. Laparoscopic surgery is a less invasive way to perform procedures that used to require open surgery. Instead of making a large incision, it uses a set of…
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National Fellowship Aims To Enlarge The Impact Of La Comunidad Hispana’s Rebecca Bixby
The incredible influence of a culturally welcoming southern Chester County nonprofit’s medical director is no longer an unnoticed and underappreciated difference-maker. La Comunidad Hispana‘s Rebecca Bixby has not only been named one of 30 clinicians making a difference by the nationwide Migrant Clinicians Network but also selected among 30 of the country’s most advanced practice nurses…
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Biosimilars, Long-Term Agreements Drive AmerisourceBergen’s Shares To 52 Week High
AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC) is about to finally complete its long awaited acquisition of MWI Veterinary Supply (NASDAQ:MWIV), prompting many analysts to re-evaluate its future potential. The Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, based distributor of drugs and health supplies is one of the top three wholesale drug distribution companies in the country and along with Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and McKesson Corp (NYSE:MCK), generates 85…
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The Positives and Negatives of Senior Care Options
By Brad & Dara Trout Research by AARP finds that 90 percent of those of 65 years and older wish to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. More recent research shows this trend continuing and is especially true for the baby boomer generation. But, the real question for seniors and…
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