Featured Image: Lehigh Valley Hospital-Macungie President Holly Badali is joined by LVHN and community leaders in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting to mark the soon-to-open first of its kind neighborhood hospital in the area. Neighborhood hospitals are stand-alone, licensed, accredited acute care hospitals, and in addition to offering a full-service ER with 11 beds, it features a 10-bed inpatient medical unit and ambulatory diagnostic services.

First LVHN neighborhood hospital will feature 24/7 emergency room

Lehigh Valley, Pa. (March 8, 2024) – Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) officials today cut the ribbon on LVHN’s first neighborhood hospital – Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Macungie.

The new hospital will begin serving patients soon, following the green light from state Department of Health officials after final inspections.

LVH–Macungie will provide more accessible health care in the region, complete with an around-the-clock emergency room.

The opening completes the new Macungie medical campus where Health Center at Macungie opened in December 2023. The site is located at 3369 State Route 100, Macungie, the location of a former Weis Markets supermarket.

The new hospital and health center fill a need by creating a medical campus and health care services not currently available in the Macungie area.

Community leaders and LVHN officials, including Brian A. Nester, DO, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer, LVHN, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at LVH–Macungie on Friday (3/8).

“LVH–Macungie is part of our continuing effort to bring world-class health care to you, making it more convenient than ever to get the expert help you need, when you and your families need it,” Dr. Nester said. “Overall, LVHN is growing to meet community needs for care and convenience across the areas we serve. That means hiring more doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to be there when you need us, in places like our neighborhood hospitals and their adjacent health centers.”

Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Macungie is the first of several neighborhood hospitals LVHN is seeking to build in the region. It’s a stand-alone, licensed, accredited acute care hospital, and in addition to the full-service ER with 11 beds, it features a 10-bed inpatient medical unit and ambulatory diagnostic services. The inpatient beds are for those requiring overnight hospital stays, or for additional care, observation and testing.

Someone arriving at LVH–Macungie with more acute medical problems, or requiring surgery, would be stabilized and transported to a larger LVHN hospital with increased care capability. Pediatric patients requiring inpatient care will routinely be transferred to Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital.

Other in-house hospital services include lab and imaging. Imaging services, including X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan and MRI, also are offered on an outpatient basis.

A second LVHN neighborhood hospital and health center is under construction in Gilbertsville, Montgomery County. LVH–Gilbertsville and Health Center at Gilbertsville are projected to open later this year.

For more about the LVH–Macungie campus, visit LVHN.org/macungie.

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) includes 13 hospital campuses, four in Allentown, two in Bethlehem, one in Easton, one in East Stroudsburg, one in Hazleton, two in Pottsville, one in Dickson City, and one in Lehighton, Pa.; 28 health centers; numerous primary and specialty care physician practices; 20 ExpressCARE locations including the area’s only Children’s ExpressCARE; pharmacy, imaging, home health, rehabilitation and lab services; and preferred provider services through Valley Preferred. Specialty care includes: trauma care for adults and children, burn care at the Regional Burn Center; kidney and pancreas transplants; perinatal/neonatal, cardiac, cancer, orthopedics, neurology, complex neurosurgery capabilities including national certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and robotic surgery in 10 specialties. Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute, Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute, Lehigh Valley Institute for Surgical Excellence, Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute and Lehigh Valley Fleming Neuroscience Institute physicians provide the most advanced treatments. Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute is a member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance (MSK Cancer Alliance), an initiative that helps community providers improve the quality of cancer care and offers access to MSK clinical trials. Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital, the community’s first and most trusted children’s hospital, provides access to the most pediatric specialties in the region and general pediatrics. Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) is ranked 27th in the country for orthopedic care and among the top 10 hospitals in Pennsylvania by U.S. News & World Report. LVH is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the top hospital in the Allentown metro area for the 10th year in a row. Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Cedar Crest, LVH–17th Street and LVH–Muhlenberg are the region’s only Magnet® hospitals for nursing excellence. Additional information is available by visiting LVHN.org or following us on Facebook , LinkedIn and Instagram.

 

Information provided to TVL by:
Brian Downs
Public Information Officer
Marketing and Public Affairs
Lehigh Valley Health Network
LVHN.org

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