Geisinger Health System

Road to Recovery offers people with cancer diagnoses free rides to appointments, helping to overcome transportation as a barrier to healthcare. The program has lost volunteers since the COVID-19 pandemic and is looking to recruit more in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Unionized nurses at Geisinger’s Wyoming Valley facilities settled with the company late Friday after months of negotiations, averting a second strike.

The latest proposal comes after the nurses’ five-day strike in February and negotiating sessions on March 25 and 26. Union members said they will not agree to this proposal.

National Match Day was on Friday, March 21 this year. All 115 of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's soon-to-be graduates matched with residency programs across the country.

The Vermont senator met virtually with union representatives before tweeting 'Geisinger: do the right thing' amid protracted labor negotiations.

Geisinger and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare PA returned to the negotiating table on day three of the five-day strike.

Both Geisinger and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare PA expressed a desire to get back to the negotiating table and end the strike on time.

Geisinger’s unionized Luzerne County nurses began a strike on Feb. 17. The union had been in negotiations with Geisinger since November, and nurses have been working under an expired contract since the end of January.

After a failed negotiating session with Geisinger on Feb. 6, the union sent a strike notice to the healthcare company.

Geisinger’s unionized Luzerne County nurses took to Public Square to voice their demands for an updated contract in one last effort to avert a walkout.