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Lehigh Valley Health Network has 981 licensed-acute beds on its three campuses. [3] [4] Its flagship hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, located at 1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown, is the state's third-largest hospital, Pennsylvania's first Level One Trauma Center, and one of two Level One trauma centers in the Lehigh Valley, the state's third-most populous ...
The 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 ...
Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, commonly referred to as Lehigh Valley Hospital, is a hospital located at 1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is the largest hospital in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania , and the third-largest hospital in the state after UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh and Thomas ...
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazelton: Hazleton: Luzerne: 150: 6: Non-profit: General acute: Lehigh Valley Health Network — — Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg: Bethlehem Lehigh: 194: 8: Non-profit: General acute: Lehigh Valley Health Network — — Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono: East Stroudsburg: Monroe: 239: 11: Non-profit: General acute ...
Elk Regional Health Center was formed in 1999 with the joining of Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital and Elk County General Hospital which were established in 1922 and 1902 respectively. Penn Highlands acquired the hospital in 2013 and changed the name to Penn Highlands Elk in 2014. [2] It is located in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
The hospital's patient population peaked in 1950 with 2,012 patients. [citation needed] In November 1998, Allentown State Hospital was the first psychiatric hospital in the United States to be completely seclusion-free. Due in part to community mental health efforts, the hospital's occupancy later fell to as low as 175 patients. [citation needed]
The Lehigh Valley (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ /) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania.It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. [1]
WellSpan Health is an American integrated health system located in South-Central Pennsylvania and parts of northern Maryland.Headquartered in York, Pennsylvania and employing about 20,000 people, WellSpan Health operates nine hospitals (including a surgical hospital and a behavioral health hospital): WellSpan York Hospital, WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital, WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital ...