Health

The 153-bed West Philly safety-net facility, and its ER, will operate as a satellite of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

COVID-19 numbers are also spiking in Monmouth, Gloucester, Middlesex, and Bergen counties.

In a diminished spotlight because of COVID-19, leading human rights defenders on Friday urged people in these fractured times to connect through politics — and vote, too.

Seminars and workshops on implicit bias promise to change cultures at police departments, organizations and universities. But how effective are these trainings?

A school leader had parents go to a pharmacy drive-thru, leading to a bottleneck, to show the ease of COVID-19 testing at his facility’s parking lot.

Fauci acknowledges there’s been confusion over the timeline and approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, but he says Americans should trust the process.

Implemented in 1994, the immunization registry known as PhilaVax gives the city a head start.

Pennsylvania and Delaware have released apps to help with contact tracing. Will the strategy work?

The CDC invited Philly and 4 states to help develop U.S. strategy for distributing a vaccine. After a brief consult, a playbook was released nationwide.

The union that represents SEPTA workers fought for a $500,000 death benefit — a payout that New York’s MTA provided over the summer.

Pa. health officials abandoned their urgency in implementing a faster process, leaving them ill-prepared to accurately report death data when the pandemic arrived.

You can now pick your own produce when you visit the stands.

Testing and Contact Tracing Director Michael Huff said the tiered approach to testing will prioritize the most vulnerable.

The program is the latest push by Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration to combat the opioid epidemic, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact public health and the economy.

People of color get sick and die of COVID-19 at rates higher than whites and higher than their share of the population.