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Patient Finds Extraordinary Heart Care at St. Luke’s

WEBCathy, who lived in Florida for more than 30 years but moved back to the Lehigh Valley to help care for her mother in Fountain Hill, soon found out she was the one in need of care; the kind of extraordinary heart care found at St. Luke’s University Health Network, the region’s leader in heart care and one of the PINC AI Top 50

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New Therapy License Could Expand Mental Health Care Access in Pa.

WEBThe Pennsylvania State Senate has voted out of committee a proposal to expand access to mental health care services by creating a new professional license for marriage and family therapists. Sen. Lisa Boscola (D-18). (FILE PHOTO) House Bill 1564 would authorize the state to issue a newly-created associate marriage and family …

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St. Luke’s Carbon Campus to Improve Health Care Access in County

WEBA new 80-room hospital that is part of St. Luke’s University Health Network will open in Lehighton later this year. The facility is the first new hospital to be built in rural Carbon County in 65 years. When the new St. Luke’s Carbon Campus hospital opens in late fall, it will be the centerpiece of the health system’s technologically

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St. Luke's Opens New Orthopedic Hospital

WEBby Josh Popichak. St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) held a ribbon-cutting Wednesday for the area’s newest specialty hospital for orthopedic surgery, where expert teams will perform same-day surgeries of the knee, hip, spine, hand and shoulder, and treat a myriad of sports-related fractures and other injuries. Est. Read …

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St. Luke’s to Open New Orthopedic Hospital

WEBThe cost of the hospital is $44 million. St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital in Allentown is expected to open this winter. (Credit: St. Luke’s University Health Network) Dr. Lundy estimated that St. Luke’s orthopedic surgeons will perform nearly 3,000 operations, all elective, in the new hospital during 2024.

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New Patient Portal Gives St. Luke’s Patients Greater Access to

WEBSt. Luke’s patients now have the ability to seize control of their healthcare with just a click of a button–not only on their computers, but also on their mobile devices. Among the many features available at their fingertips are test results, appointment requests and the ability to chat with their physicians. Est. Read Time: 2 mins.

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LVHN Cuts Ribbon on New Healthcare Education Center in Upper …

WEBThe officials who had the honor of cutting the ribbon on Lehigh Valley Health Network’s new Center for Healthcare Education in Upper Saucon Township paused for photographs after it was ceremonially snipped Friday. Lehigh Valley Health Network’s new Center for Healthcare Education is located at 3900 Sierra Circle, off Center Valley …

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LVHN Hopes to Merge With Jefferson

WEBEst. Read Time: 3 mins Two of the largest health systems in the region announced plans to merge Tuesday. Lehigh Valley Health Network and Philadelphia-based Jefferson have signed a non-binding letter of intent to combine and create “a leading regional health care system, including a national research university and a not-for-profit …

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LVPG Family Medicine to Open in New Hellertown Building in Late …

WEBThe finishing touches are being put on Lehigh Valley Health Network’s new 11,600 square-foot medical office building in downtown Hellertown, which will become the new home of LVPG Family Medicine-Hellertown and Health Network Labs by late May, a hospital spokesman confirmed Monday.. The family medical practice and laboratory …

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Internist Mark Kender, MD, Returns to St. Luke’s

WEBInternist Mark Kender, MD, has returned to St. Luke’s University Health Network after a year spent working in the Philadelphia area. He is now seeing patients at St. Luke’s Bethlehem Internal Medicine on Eaton Avenue in Bethlehem. Mark Kender, MD, rejoined SLUHN after a year of treating patients and teaching newly-minted doctors in …

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St. Luke’s Offers New Minimally Invasive Prostate Procedure

WEBEst. Read Time: 3 mins Dr. Abhay A. Singh of St. Luke’s Center for Urology successfully performed the first-ever Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) procedure at St. Luke’s on a patient in late April. This represents the first time this minimally invasive treatment–which many experts consider the gold standard treatment of large …

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St. Luke’s Opens Children’s Hospital Based in Fountain Hill

WEBLocal families will have another option when it comes to keeping their kids healthy thanks to St. Luke’s University Health Network, which announced the opening of St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital based at its Bethlehem Campus in Fountain Hill Tuesday. The announcement was made at a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception that were held in a

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St. Luke’s Surgeon First in Area with New Sleep Apnea Treatment

WEBThe first Inspire implant surgery was successfully completed at St. Luke’s in September of 2020, and Keeler has performed nearly 100 procedures since then. His oldest patient was 88 and his youngest was only 29. “He is the picture of health, but has sleep apnea and was struggling, just like so many others who are unable to tolerate CPAP

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St. Luke’s Welcomes New Chairman of Orthopedics Department

WEBSt. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) has chosen a highly accomplished orthopedic trauma surgeon as its new chairman of the network’s Department of Orthopedics. Douglas W. Lundy, MD, MBA, FAOA, FACS, who previously led one of the largest private orthopedics groups in the U.S., joined the network on Nov. 8.

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St. Luke's Welcomes First Hepatologist

WEBVishal Patel, MD, has been practicing hepatology–a sub-specialty of gastroenterology with a focus on the liver–since 2008. Well-known in the region, Dr. Patel treats patients with all types of gastrointestinal and liver-related illnesses, but he specializes in caring for those patients with acute, chronic and advanced liver disease.

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New St. Luke’s OB/GYN Practice Opens in Center Valley

WEBConveniently located at 5445 Lanark Road in Suite 201, just off Rt. 309, St. Luke’s OB/GYN Mountain View opened July 1.

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St. Luke’s Upper Bucks Campus Opens New Wing With Ribbon …

WEBA ribbon was cut to open St. Luke’s Upper Bucks Campus’s new Women & Babies Pavilion in Milford Township Monday. The three-story building near Quakertown was constructed over an 18-month period and opens to the public on Wednesday. Health network officials said the state-of-the-art facility will allow Bucks and Montgomery …

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St. Luke’s Launches New Holistic Menopause Program

WEBEst. Read Time: 2 mins St. Luke’s University Health Network has opened a new menopause program to provide comprehensive, traditional and holistic care to women experiencing this change of life, which begins when the ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone.. The program will differ from most in that it will …

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St. Luke’s Allentown Campus Opens New Women & Babies Pavilion

WEBWith a snip of oversized shears, a mother who gave birth to her first child at St. Luke’s Allentown Campus cut a ceremonial ribbon Monday to open its new Women & Babies Pavilion.The expanded facility will increase the community’s access to high-quality birthing, post-partum and newborn services, including neonatal intensive care.

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St. Luke’s Provides Innovative Treatment for COVID ‘Long Haulers’

WEBSt. Luke’s University Health Network announced its development of a new COVID-19 Recovery Clinic Thursday. The innovative program is dedicated to treating post-COVID patients with lingering symptoms who are colloquially known as COVID “long haulers.”. A St. Luke’s University Health Network yard sign is displayed along Delaware …

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Coffee and Its Bottomless Benefits: Bar Talk with Eric Bartosz

WEBCoffee is a fat burner. Caffeine sends a signal to use fat cells as energy instead of glycogen. Having a cup of coffee 45 to 60 minutes before exercising sets the stage for fat to be consumed as fuel, and it also increases the level of adrenaline in our blood, which also burns fat. (That’s one of the reasons caffeine is an ingredient in most

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