Commonwealth Health’s Moses Taylor Hospital and Regional Hospital of Scranton received state approval to merge under one license, The Times-Tribune reports. Both Hospitals fall under the umbrella of Commonwealth Health.
The licensure transition approved by the state Department of Health allows the two Scranton institutions to formally coordinate operations across their campuses, located just blocks from each other in the city’s Hill Section.
A single board of trustees and executive team will oversee those operations; physicians are now joined on a single medical staff and medical executive committee.
With the two hospitals and their respective satellite facilities operating under one license, Moses Taylor, where an estimated 45,718 babies have been delivered since July 2000, will remain the campus for births and obstetrics. Infants will continue to receive specialized care in Moses Taylor’s neonatal intensive care unit and seniors will continue to receive specialized behavioral health care at the hospital. Read more.
