SCRANTON — A new pharmacy at Commonwealth Health’s Moses Taylor Hospital serving patients and retail customers alike represents another investment in the Hill Section facility saved from closure by an ownership change earlier this year.
That’s when the nonprofit Tenor Health Foundation finalized its acquisition of Commonwealth Health and its hospitals in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, including Regional Hospital of Scranton and its nearby Moses Taylor Hospital campus at 700 Quincy Ave. in the city.
Commonwealth and Tenor Health officials gathered there Monday to officially celebrate the grand opening of the Apothecary at Moses Taylor Hospital, which restores outpatient pharmacy services and supports a “meds-to-beds” program allowing Regional and Moses Taylor patients to receive prescribed medications conveniently prior to discharge.
Hospital officials and staff gather for the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Hospital officials and staff gather for the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Maura Osborne, Director of Pharmacy, talks about the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Regional and Moses Taylor CEO Dr. Patrick Conaboy discusses opening a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital, an investment in the facility that came close to closing earlier this year. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Radha Savitala, Tenor Health Foundation’s president and board chair, talks about the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Hospital officials and staff gather for the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Hospital officials and staff gather for the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
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Hospital officials and staff gather for the opening of a new pharmacy at Moses Taylor Hospital on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. It supports a Meds-to-Beds program allowing patients to fill prescriptions at the hospital prior to discharge. (CHAD SEBRING/STAFF PHOTO)
Regional and Moses Taylor are separate facilities but operate under one license following a 2022 merger. Officials first announced the reopening of a pharmacy at Moses Taylor and the launch of the bedside prescription delivery program in August.
“This is really a big deal for us, not just that we’re opening a pharmacy, but we are reopening something that we lost a long time ago,” Regional and Moses Taylor CEO Dr. Patrick Conaboy said Monday. “And reopening this is not just something that we are doing for the community, but it’s all about recapturing who we were and what our dedication was like for years to this community and to our patients.”
He referred to the pharmacy’s restoration as an example of the broader “rebirth” of Regional and Moses Taylor, crediting Tenor Health with having stepped in “at our darkest moment.” Tenor’s completed acquisition of Regional, Moses Taylor, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and other assets — which Commonwealth and its now former parent company, for-profit Community Health Systems Inc., announced in early February — was seen as a lifeline for the financially struggling Scranton hospitals in particular.
A Commonwealth news release similarly characterized the pharmacy’s opening as “part of Tenor Health Foundation’s broader commitment to investing in Moses Taylor Hospital and working alongside Commonwealth Health to revitalize the campus, enhance services and make healthcare more convenient and accessible for the communities it serves.”
Monday’s ceremony and ribbon cutting came about two months after officials gathered in August to celebrate Regional and Moses Taylor’s “new chapter of clinical growth, facility investment, and team expansion since returning to nonprofit ownership” under Tenor Health. Among other milestones and accomplishments, they highlighted at the time the return of an on-site pharmacy, the related meds-to-beds program, the local introduction of several “leading-edge procedures close to home” and the relocation of same day surgery services to “strengthen the campus as an outpatient care hub.”
“We’re trying to bring back something,” Radha Savitala, Tenor Health Foundation’s president and board chair, said Monday. “This is a good step in the right direction to bring the services back and make it more convenient for our patients to get the care and utilize the facility a lot more.”
Maura Osborne, the director of pharmacy for Regional and Moses Taylor, echoed that sentiment, describing the apothecary as “something tangible that we can have open to show the community that we are back and that we are here to stay.”
Savitala and Conaboy were also quick to credit staff, both on the pharmacy front and for helping facilitate recent progress at Regional and Moses Taylor more broadly.
“I have not seen a staff more dedicated to serving the community than I have here,” Savitala said. “So (we’re) very grateful for the opportunity to bring things back and to continue to rebuild this wonderful medical provider in the community.”