Kimberly Mohler

Bair names Mohler as coordinatorKimberly Mohler was named the intake coordinator of the Butler office of the Bair Foundation, a nonprofit child and family ministry.Mohler will lead families interested in being foster parents through training and certification.Mohler worked at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh before she entered social services as a case worker and recruitment specialist in 2013.

Death lawsuit targets hospitalPITTSBURGH — A lawsuit is targeting another hospital in the death of a cancer patient following a fungal infection.The suit filed Tuesday in Allegheny County Court against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a linen vendor concerns the October death of 65-year-old John Haines at UPMC Shadyside.Lawyers said he was diagnosed with a rhizopus fungal infection after several weeks of chemotherapy treatment and died of cardiac arrest, sepsis and fungal pneumonia.Previous legal action has concerned patients at UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Montefiore.

Groups file appeals over pipelineHARRISBURG — Environmental advocacy groups are trying to halt construction of a natural gas liquids pipeline across southern Pennsylvania while they appeal newly issued permits.The Clean Air Council, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Mountain Watershed Association filed the appeals Monday night with the Environmental Hearing Board.In the filings, the groups say the Department of Environmental Protection approved incomplete permit applications Monday under political pressure.