THE CONTEXT

Rite Aid’s been fined a million dollars for dispensing excessive amounts of controlled substances over three years. The Cumberland County-based chain was filling prescriptions from physicians, but the law requires pharmacies to track and flag amounts over legal limits.

State health officials say Lancaster General Hospital failed to properly handle abuse allegations. A recent investigation found the hospital should’ve contacted police, but did not, in four separate instances within 16 months -- one involving an employee who allegedly molested an unconscious patient. Transforming Health’s Brett Sholtis has the story.  

All this, don’t forget, on the heels of reports of state failures to provide the proper type of naloxone to some EMS squads and to address problems in assisted living facilities already flagged for putting residents at risk.

The Pennsylvania Farm Show is here. Check out this take on the event’s famed butter sculpture by former StateImpact Pennsylvania reporter Scott Detrow about how, after the show, it’s turned into enough energy to power a farm for three days.

Natural gas companies will have to pay millions of dollars in unpaid impact fees due to a recent Pa. Supreme Court decision. The state says it missed out on $6.1 million, total, from 17 natural gas producers who claimed some of their wells were exempt. But the top court recently ruled against them. More details are in this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.

A former Philadelphia bakery is now being used as “rage room” where people can bring their own breakables to destroy as a way to relieve stress. Tom MacDonald did a story on it for WHYY this week.