Community Health Systems Incorporated

EASTON HOSPITAL OWNER TO BUY ANOTHER SYSTEM WILKES-BARRE | The for-profit owner of Easton Hospital is planning to buy the Wyoming Valley Health Care System. Wyoming Valley, announced Tuesday that it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to sell to...

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A retired Lehigh County judge, who 18 years ago presided over a legal battle over area hospitals' tax exemptions, is calling on governments and community leaders to again demand reforms at Lehigh Valley Hospital in light of its $76 million surplus in...

Lehigh Valley Hospital's revenues have soared in the last five years, its top executive salaries have doubled and its massive main campus at Cedar Crest Boulevard and Interstate 78 has been buzzing with construction. In fact, the Lehigh Valley's...

The family of a man whose death has been ruled a homicide will file a second suit against Easton Hospital today, claiming it withheld information on an internal investigation of former nurse Charles Cullen, the suspect in the death. The family of Ottomar...

Autopsy results released Friday show someone at Easton Hospital delivered a fatal dose of the drug digoxin to 78-year-old Ottomar Schramm between 8 a.m. Dec. 29 and 6 a.m. Dec. 30, 1998. While they are not ready to file charges, investigators suspect...

If there were any doubt that health care was big business in the Lehigh Valley, a look at 2002's largest employers makes it clear. Six of the top 25 largest companies are directly involved in health care, according to data compiled by The Morning Call....

The husband of a 40-year-old woman who died at St. Luke's Hospital in February 2002 while Charles Cullen worked there as a nurse has filed notice that he will sue St. Luke's, Cullen, Easton Hospital and Liberty Nursing Center in Northampton County Court....

Soon after 78-year-old Ottomar A. Schramm died at Easton Hospital following an unprescribed, toxic dose of the heart medicine digoxin, a male nurse tried to talk his family members out of ordering an autopsy. Christina Toth told Northampton County...

The daughter of the man critical care nurse Charles Cullen is suspected of killing at Easton Hospital said Monday she doesn't support executing Cullen, especially if he gives a full list of the people he claims to have killed. "I would like to see him in...

A New Jersey attorney accused the 10 hospitals and nursing home where Charles Cullen worked of negligence and said he is considering a lawsuit on behalf of three families who say their loved ones died suspiciously in the past year. Anthony Macri, who...