Harold Brubaker

In an interview, John Zillmer discussed how he hopes to restore employee morale and the investment approach of Paul C. Hilal, Aramark's biggest shareholder.

The buyer of the facilities elected to close them.

Starting Jan. 1, the state will require the eight companies that manage pharmacy benefits under Medicaid to use the same preferred prescription drug list, instead of eight individual lists.

Aramark Corp. on Monday named John J. Zillmer, an executive associated with an activist investor who controls 20 percent of the Philadelphia company, chief executive, replacing the departed Eric Foss.

Starting with tax year 2020, corporations with at least $500,000 in annual in sales but no physical presence in the state will have to file a Pennsylvania corporate net income tax return.

Tower’s CEO says others may join it and Drexel in buying the North Philadelphia safety-net hospital.

So far, other Philadelphia health systems have not experienced a clear negative impact.

The $55-million sale, which federal regulators want blocked because they consider it illegal, was approved by a bankruptcy court judge — the Sept. 5 approval hinged, at the simplest level, on whether Hahnemann was open or closed at the time of the sale.

The decision plunged the critical unit at the North Philadelphia hospital into uncertainty on Monday, when Tower Health and Drexel University received court approval to buy St. Christopher’s out of bankruptcy.

There were two attempts to rob banks in Roxborough Saturday afternoon. One succeeded.