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Wolf Administration Highlights Opioid Response Efforts as Opioid Crisis Continues to Affect Pennsylvania 01/26/2021 Harrisburg, PA - The Wolf Administration today highlighted the latest accomplishments of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) and provided an update on prescribing and overdose trends up to October 2020. Since the PDMP launched in 2016, there has been a 29.7% increase in the prescribing of buprenorphine. In addition, there has been a 58.6% reduction in the number of ind...

Just launched: One Lens: Sharing Our Common Views — a statewide collaborative visual and storytelling project to document Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 experience. Just launched: One Lens: Sharing Our Common Views — a statewide collaborative visual and storytelling project to document Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 experience. × COVID UPDATE: 4.3 million doses of vaccine have been administered across PA. See if you qualify and find appointments. × Wolf Administratio...

Updated: 1:28 PM EST January 26, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Education announced Tuesday that 59 schools in the commonwealth have been awarded a total of $875,000 in competitive grants to purchase new food service equipment for their cafeterias. The recipients include two schools in Dauphin County, one in Lancaster County, and four in York County, according to the department. “Research has shown that when students have access to nutritious meals, ...

Meet Pa. Senate GOP leader Kim Ward, the first woman to hold that post: ‘I have to do a good job’ Updated Jan 26, 2021; Posted Jan 26, 2021 Sen. Kim Ward, a Republican from western Pennsylvania, is the first woman to serve as Senate majority leader. Nov. 19, 2020. Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com Facebook Share Kim Ward didn’t set out to be a politician. She chose to be a respiratory therapist. But when she crossed paths with a young intern-turned AIDS activist, it sparked an interest...

HARRISBURG, Pa.-- On Tuesday, the Wolf Administration revealed  Pennsylvania has seen a seven-day case increase of 31,140, a statewide percent positivity of 10.5% and 66 counties with substantial transmission status. “After six straight weeks of all 67 counties reporting in the substantial level of transmission, we now have one county moving into the low level of transmission category – a great sign of progress,” Gov. Wolf said. “But there is still more work for us to do ...

Governor Tom Wolf announced his intention to nominate Alison Beam to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and named Dr. Wendy Braund Interim Acting Physician General. “Alison Beam is a talented public servant who brings years of experience in health care policy and implementation to this position,” said Gov. Wolf. “Alison knows that a strong, widely available, and successful vaccination strategy is the path out of the pains of this pandemic. Her foremost and immediate focus will...

Updated travel recommendations. The dashboard is designed to provide early warning signs of factors that affect the state’s mitigation efforts. The data available on the Early Warning Monitoring dashboard includes week-over-week case differences, incidence rates, test percent-positivity, and rates of hospitalizations, ventilations and emergency room visits tied to COVID-19. This week’s update compares the period of January 15 – January 21 to the previous seven days, January 8 – January...

Governor Tom Wolf nominates Alison Beam for Secretary of Health January 22, 2021 12:53 pm Gov. Tom Wolf nominated Alison Beam, his current deputy chief of staff, to take over the role of Secretary of Health. PHOTO PROVIDED. Gov. Tom Wolf nominated his deputy chief of staff, Alison Beam, to replace Dr. Rachel Levine as state Health Secretary after President Joe Biden chose Levine to be the assistant secretary of health for the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Beam, the Wolf A...

Updated: 2:28 PM EST January 22, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — Governor Tom Wolf announced his intention to nominate Alison Beam to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and named Dr. Wendy Braund Interim Acting Physician General. Beam currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Tom Wolf, coordinating initiatives and resources across Pennsylvania’s departments of Health, Human Services, Drug & Alcohol Programs, Aging and Insurance, as well as the Office of Advoca...

Governor Tom Wolf nominates Alison Beam for Secretary of Health January 22, 2021 12:42 pm Gov. Tom Wolf nominated Alison Beam, his current deputy chief of staff, to take over the role of Secretary of Health. PHOTO PROVIDED. Gov. Tom Wolf nominated his deputy chief of staff, Alison Beam, to replace Dr. Rachel Levine as state Health Secretary after President Joe Biden chose Levine to be the assistant secretary of health for the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Beam, the Wolf A...