St. Luke's University Health Network
St. Luke's University Health Network/Temple University School of Medicine | |
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Geography | |
Location | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Organisation | |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
Type | Teaching |
Services | |
Emergency department | Adult Level I |
Beds | 800+ |
History | |
Opened | 1872 |
Links | |
Website | www.sluhn.org |
St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit network of 12 hospitals and over 300 outpatient sites. The health network is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania and has over 16,000 employees.
History
The network started in 1872 with St. Luke's Hospital, now known as St. Luke's University Hospital, which became a primary teaching hospital for Temple University School of Medicine in 1901. St. Luke's University Hospital is a non-profit, tertiary-care, teaching hospital with campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
Specialties
St. Luke's University Health Network is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems.
The network offers 90 medical specialties, including:
- Level I (Bethlehem), Level II Trauma (Easton) and Level IV (Miners and Upper Bucks) Adult Trauma Center
- Bariatric surgery
- Cardiology and cardiovascular surgery. A nationally recognized open-heart surgery program
- Gastroenterology: colonoscopy, upper and lower endoscopic surgery, hernia repairs, bowel diseases
- Neuroscience
- Oncology: Radiation Oncology, Chemotherapy, Laser therapy
- Orthopaedics
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Pediatrics
- Perinatal
- Robotic/Minimally-invasive surgery
- Radiology
- Podiatry
- Women's Health: breast cancer surgery
Locations
St. Luke's University Health Network comprises twelve hospitals:
- St. Luke's University Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine–Bethlehem (Fountain Hill)
- St. Luke's Allentown Campus (Allentown)
- St. Luke's Anderson Campus (Bethlehem Township)
- St Luke's Easton (Easton) starting July 1, 2020, formerly Easton Hospital
- St. Luke's Miners Campus (Coaldale)
- St. Luke's Monroe Campus (Stroudsburg)
- St. Luke's Upper Bucks Campus (Quakertown)
- St. Luke's Warren Campus (Phillipsburg, NJ)
- St. Luke's Lehighton Campus (Lehighton)
- St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus (Allentown)
- St. Luke's Quakertown Campus (Quakertown)
- Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital (Orwigsburg)
In addition, the network's 300 outpatient sites provide various healthcare services, including:
- Outpatient testing and service facilities
- A regional medical school campus
- Home health
- Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and audiology
- Hospice services (inpatient and outpatient)
- Level III NICU