St. Luke's University Health Network

St. Luke's University Health Network
Geography
Location Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Organization
Funding Non-profit hospital
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university Temple University
Services
Emergency department Adult Level I
Pediatric Level II
Beds 480
History
Founded 1872
Links
Website http://www.sluhn.org/
Lists Hospitals in Pennsylvania

St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of 14,000 employees providing services at 10 hospitals and over 300 outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $1.9 billion, the Network’s service area includes 10 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe and Schuylkill counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.

St. Luke's University Health Network comprises ten hospitals:

  • St. Luke's University Hospital – Bethlehem
  • St. Luke's Allentown Campus
  • St. Luke's Anderson Campus (Bethlehem Township)
  • St. Luke's Miners Campus (Coaldale)
  • St. Luke's Monroe Campus (Stroudsburg)
  • St. Luke's Quakertown Campus
  • St. Luke's Warren Campus
  • St. Luke's Palmerton Campus
  • St. Luke's Gnaden Huetten Campus
  • St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus

The network provides services at more than 150 sites, including:

  • More than 115 employed primary care/specialist physician sites
  • Various outpatient testing and service facilities
  • Regional medical school campus
  • Home health
  • Hospice services (inpatient and outpatient)
  • The largest hospital-based EMS unit in Pennsylvania
  • Various other health care services

Facts and figures

  • 62,000+ annual admissions
  • 293,000 annual emergency room visits
  • 14,000+ employees (the region's second largest employer)
  • 1,342 physicians (representing more than 90 specialties; 92 percent board certified)
  • 1,652 volunteers[1]
  • St. Luke’s School of Nursing is the nation’s oldest hospital-based, diploma school in continuous operation.[2]

Specialties

St. Luke's University Hospital, the Network's flagship, is a non-profit, tertiary-care, teaching hospital with campuses in Bethlehem and Allentown in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The hospital offers 90 medical specialties.

Areas of exceptional medical expertise include:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sluhn.org/about/index.aspx
  2. ↑ http://www.slhn.org/Medical-Education/School-Nursing/About

Coordinates: 40°36′35″N 75°23′33″W / 40.60965°N 75.39251°W / 40.60965; -75.39251

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