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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Dec. 27, 2018) – Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Wound Care Center Certification. The Gold Seal of Approval® is a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to providing safe and effective patient care. Wilkes-Barre General Hospital underwent a rigorous on-site review as Joint Commission experts evaluated compliance with national disease-specific care standards as well as with requirements... ... Read More

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2018) – Todd Burda has been promoted to the position of vice president of access and business development for Commonwealth Health, according to an announcement by Cor Catena, CEO of Commonwealth Health. Todd’s primary goal will be to work with market leadership as Commonwealth Health advances its plan to integrate market level operations. His focus in this new role will be to identify and coordinate efforts relating to access across the Commonwealth Health market with team me... ... Read More

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2018) – Frank Chen Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Commonwealth Health Physician Network and will practice neurology at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Dr. Zhang specializes in inpatient stroke care and neurologic disorders including Parkinson's disease, seizures, headaches, dementia, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, and muscle spasticity. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Zhang earned a medical degree from Suzho... ... Read More

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2018) – Interventional cardiologist Daniel Tsyvine, M.D., has joined the Commonwealth Health Physician Network and the medical staff of Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Dr. Tsyvine is certified in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular disease, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography and is a registered physician in vascular interpretation. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel D... ... Read More

SCRANTON, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2018) – Two Commonwealth Health employees joined with a local university professor to co-author a research study. Heidi Bockelkamp, PT, DPT, market director of rehabilitation services at Regional Hospital of Scranton and Moses Taylor, along with Dana Maida, PT, DPT, Regional Hospital staff therapist, worked with Barbara Wagner, PT, DPT, MHA, professor emerita University of Scranton, on the study. Dana also is a University of Scranton faculty specialist and assistant director of c... ... Read More

SCRANTON, Pa. (Dec. 13, 2018) – Cardiologists at Commonwealth Health Heart & Vascular Institute are performing a new procedure that helps to reduce stroke risk in people who have non-valve-related atrial fibrillation while offering them an alternative to warfarin. The procedure, called left atrial appendage closure device, or LAAC, is beneficial to patients who cannot tolerate warfarin, an anticoagulant. Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is an irregular, often rapid heart rate that often causes poor blo... ... Read More

SCRANTON, Pa. (Dec. 11, 2018) –The Commission on Cancer, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons, has granted three-year accreditation with three commendations to the Commonwealth Health Cancer Network Program, an Integrated Network Cancer Program. The program includes Regional Hospital of Scranton, Moses Taylor Hospital and Delta Medix, along with the entire cancer community, including Hematology Oncology of NEPA, Scranton Hematology & Oncology, Northeast Regional Cancer Institute, Th... ... Read More

Commonwealth Health is expanding its services and providers at the Nanticoke Medical Center to include vascular surgery and wound care. John Guerriero, D.O., and Michael Levandowski, a certified registered nurse practitioner, will begin seeing patients at 4 E. Main St., Nanticoke, on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, from noon to 4. Dr. Guerriero specializes in general and vascular surgery, hyperbaric medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. He is a graduate of Ohio University and completed a res... ... Read More

The bariatric program at Commonwealth Health recently recorded its 1,000th surgical procedure since the program's inception in 2010. Members of the team are, front row, from left: Megan Ruda, scheduling coordinator; Karyn Thomas, RN, BSN, bariatric coordinator; Noelle Altavilla, RD, LDN. Second row: Arthur Rogo, practice manager; Dr. Gary Neale, FACS, FASMBS; Dr. Clark Gerhart, FACS, and Kyle Landis, PA-C. ... Read More

SCRANTON, Pa. (Nov. 12, 2018) – An advanced form of bronchoscopy that uses navigation similar to a GPS system to detect early-stage lung cancer, is being performed for the first time in Northeastern Pennsylvania at Commonwealth Health Moses Taylor Hospital. Navigational bronchoscopy, a new procedure that combines advanced imaging techniques with electromagnetic navigation to help find lesions almost anywhere in the lungs, works similar to a Global Position System in a car or phone. By using a CT scan, t... ... Read More