St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit network of 15 campuses and over 300 outpatient sites. The health network is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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| Industry | Healthcare, hospitals |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1872 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Services | Teaching hospitals, Primary, secondary, and tertiary care centers; ambulatory clinics |
Number of employees | 20,000 (2024) |
| Website | www |
As of 2024, the network has over 20,000 employees.[1]
History
editThe network was founded in 1872 when St. Luke's Hospital was chartered in South Bethlehem. In 1875, the hospital was relocated to its current location in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. Upon his death in 1878, local businessman Asa Packer entrusted $300,000 worth of shares in the Lehigh Valley Railroad to the hospital. In 1884, the St. Luke’s School of Nursing was opened.
The hospital acquired Quakertown Community Hospital and Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center in the 1990s and was reorganized as a hospital network in 1998. In 2006, a clinical campus of Temple University School of Medicine was opened at the St. Luke's Bethlehem campus, and in 2009, a four-year School of Medicine was established in Bethlehem. The health network celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2022 and established a new children's hospital the following year.[2]
About
editSt. Luke's University Hospital is a non-profit, tertiary-care, teaching hospital. The networks service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuykill, and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke's operates the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke's Children's Hospital.
Specialties
editSt. Luke's University Health Network is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems and offers 90 medical specialties, including:
- Level I Trauma (Fountain Hill), Level II Trauma (Easton), and Level IV (Quakertown) Adult Trauma Center
- Bariatric surgery
- Cardiology and cardiovascular surgery.
- Gastroenterology: Colonoscopy, upper and lower endoscopic surgery, hernia repairs, ERCP, Endoscopic ultrasound.
- Neuroscience
- Oncology: Radiation oncology, chemotherapy, laser therapy
- Orthopaedics
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Pediatrics
- Perinatal
- Robotic and Minimally-invasive surgery
- Radiology
- Podiatry
- Women's Health: breast cancer surgery
Locations
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St. Luke's University Health Network comprises fourteen hospitals:
- St. Luke's University Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine–Bethlehem in Fountain Hill
- St. Luke's Allentown Campus in Allentown
- St. Luke's Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township
- St Luke's Easton in Easton
- St. Luke's Miners Campus in Coaldale
- St. Luke's Monroe Campus in Stroudsburg
- St. Luke's Upper Bucks Campus in Quakertown
- St. Luke's Warren Campus in Phillipsburg, NJ
- St. Luke's Lehighton Campus in Lehighton
- St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus in Allentown
- St. Luke's Quakertown Campus in Quakertown
- Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital in Orwigsburg
- St. Luke's Orthopedic Hospital West End Campus in Allentown, PA
- St. Luke's Penn Foundation Campus in Sellersville, PA
The network's 300 outpatient sites provide various healthcare services, including:
- Outpatient testing and service facilities
- A regional medical school campus
- Home care
- Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and audiology
- Hospice services (inpatient and outpatient)
- Level III NICU
References
edit- ^ "SLUHN Hires 20000th Employee". www.slhn.org. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ "St. Luke's Celebrates 150 Years of Care". www.slhn.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.