Warren General Hospital administrators were fully aware they had been bucking a national trend. As the number of rural hospitals across the United States began closing maternity units over the last decade, this facility was thinking primarily about care for its residents. “It’s important ...
How do you do regime change without changing the regime? That is the conundrum facing President Trump following his announcement that the United States would run the government of Venezuela “until such time as a proper transition can take place” — date TBD. Coming from a president who has mocked American military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump’s declaration was almost as surprising as the lightening-strike operation itself, which led to the arrest of Venezuela’s autocratic president, Nicholas Maduro, on drug trafficking charges. Set aside for a moment very ...
The start of a new year is a good time to ask a question of those we elected in November or or who have been hired into new positions of importance — how do we judge success for the city of Warren and Warren County as a whole? Those who pay attention to what happens in the local halls of government know there will be no shortage of things to deal with in 2026 - riverfront development in Warren, a contentious school building in Youngsville, new and old events that seek to boost tourism and local businesses, the first year of new tax assessments following a year of anger over the ...
In March 2025, we reported that Warren General Hospital was happy to open its doors to nearby expecting mothers affected by the closure of UPMC Cole’s labor and delivery unit. At the time, we said in this space that the closure of the UPMC Cole labor and delivery center in Coudersport is part of a statewide trend of labor and delivery unit closures in rural counties across Pennsylvania. UPMC officials cited difficulties in recruiting an OB/GYN physician and a shortage of labor and delivery nurses as the primary reasons for the closure. UPMC Cole was the latest of 38 hospitals to ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s major announcement for rural health care last week cannot be ignored. Last week, Shapiro noted that Pennsylvania has been awarded $193 million in federal funding for the first year of its approved five-year Rural Health Transformation Plan, to foster innovation and improve access to essential health services in rural communities that will be most impacted by federal spending cuts to Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program. This funding is renewable over five years, and states will have the opportunity to secure additional redistributed funding based on program ...
We’ve done it. We’ve reached the end of 2025 and are looking ahead to all the possibilities 2026 holds. Some may be planning to put 2025 firmly behind them and not look back, others may have much upon which to build from one year to the next. Whatever the case — whether our dreams include making a national project of the year or just working harder on being the best we can be for ourselves and those around us — most of us can agree we are hoping for a year in which we are able to lift up one another and work toward the good of all. On a personal level, there may be ...
