Opinion: Latest round of bad news show that 2024 remains crunch time for Penn Highlands

If the health system cannot emerge from its financial morass, the lives and livelihoods of millions of Pennsylvanians may be in jeopardy.

• By Gary Anderson and Seth Higgins
• July 31, 2024

Opening the door for Opportunity – Highmark now statewide in PA

• July 29, 2024

Opinion: PA’s long-term care centers are rapidly shuttering – here’s how to save them

A staffer at a soon-to-close Pittsburgh nursing home urges lawmakers to pass legislation to prevent more closures.

• By Cristine Williams
• June 25, 2024

Q&A with Bill Johnston-Walsh, Pennsylvania state director, AARP

• June 24, 2024

Q&A with State Senate Aging & Youth Chair Judy Ward

The state senator speaks on issues with aging in place and the state’s 10-year plan for seniors

• By Harrison Cann
• June 24, 2024

A Q&A with Senate Committee on Aging Chair Bob Casey

Casey discusses the most pressing issues facing America’s seniors.

• By Greg Salisbury and Justin Sweitzer
• June 24, 2024

Sneaky Accessibility: Destigmatizing Aging by Design

• June 24, 2024

Investing in Senior Care Shouldn’t be an Age-Old Problem

• June 24, 2024

For Pennsylvania’s aging prison population, a matter of life and death

Ezra Bozeman’s case accentuates problems with aging in prison

• By Harrison Cann
• June 24, 2024

PA, other state governments try to prepare for the ‘silver tsunami’

About 10,000 Americans are turning 65 every day. As the nation’s aging population continues to climb, states and the federal government are working to get plans in place to care for older adults.

• By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE
• June 11, 2024

A Philadelphia program helps parents tackle substance use with doulas

The Philadelphia Community Doula Support program can help new parents avoid overdoses and court-ordered family separations.

• By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE
• May 28, 2024

Commentary: It’s make-or-break time for Penn Highlands Healthcare

One of the commonwealth’s key health systems faces an uncertain prognosis.

• By Gary Anderson and Seth Higgins
• May 28, 2024

U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans being treated for minor stroke

The Philadelphia Democrat said he expects to return to Washington in six weeks

• By Harrison Cann
• May 23, 2024

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s Kensington ‘resolution’ clears out tent encampment around open-air drug market

The dismantling of tent encampments Wednesday morning came on the final day of a 30-day outreach window in the struggling neighborhood

• By Harrison Cann
• May 8, 2024

How Philadelphia plans to spend $80M in EDA Tech Hub funding

A consortium of over 100 regional organizations outlined how the "precision medicine" hub would operate

• By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE
• April 5, 2024

Josh Shapiro calls on PA Senate to pass medical debt relief legislation

The governor’s 2024-25 budget calls for a $4M investment in medical debt relief.

• By Justin Sweitzer
• April 2, 2024

‘We have no time to waste’: Fighting back against the maternal mortality crisis for women of color

City & State talks with three experts about how to improve maternal health for women of color in the commonwealth

• By Justin Sweitzer
• March 1, 2024

What Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court abortion ruling means

The state Supreme Court sent a case on Medicaid-funded abortions back to the Commonwealth Court.

• By Justin Sweitzer and Harrison Cann
• January 29, 2024

Mapping the path forward: Legislating the next stage of reproductive rights in Pennsylvania

A proposed amendment to the state Constitution would take several years

• By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE
• January 22, 2024

States hope doulas can deliver better maternal health outcomes

The Department of Human Services is working with the nonprofit Pennsylvania Doula Commission to increase the number of licensed doulas by offering subsidies for the commission’s certification fee

• By SPECIAL TO CITY & STATE
• January 5, 2024