2018 News Releases

Commonwealth Health Hospitals Join Campaign to Raise Awareness about Congenital Heart Defects 1/31/2018 SCRANTON, Pa. (Jan. 31, 2018) – Commonwealth Health Moses Taylor Hospital and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital are partnering with the American Heart Association (AHA) in February for the

Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Bariatric Program Earns Accreditation 2/5/2018 WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Feb. 5, 2018) – The bariatric surgical center at Commonwealth Health has been accredited as a designated center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®),

Commonwealth Health W-B General Hospital Earns ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center Designation 2/6/2018 WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Jan. 31, 2018) — Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital has been designated a Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology (ACR). This

Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Celebrates Expansion 2/8/2018 WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Jan. 31, 2018) – Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital will hold a grand opening celebration to mark the opening of its $40 million expansion project. A ribbon cutting for hospital

Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital earns CARF reaccreditation 2/14/2018 WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Feb. 14, 2018) – The Center for Advanced Rehabilitation at Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital has been reaccredited for a three-year period by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation

Commonwealth Health Cardiologist Earns FASNC Designation 1/4/2018 WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Jan. 4, 2018) – Rupen Parikh, M.D., a cardiologist affiliated with Commonwealth Health Physician Network, has been approved for the designation of Fellow of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. The