Photo Caption: Bill Moyer, St. Luke’s West Region President, speaks at the dedication ceremony.

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday to officially open its newest medical office building (MOB), located at 3151 Walbert Ave., Allentown, near the Target store and Weis grocery market.

The three-story, 45,000-square-foot facility, at the intersection of North Cedar Crest Blvd, and Walbert Ave., houses a dozen medical practices for adults and pediatrics, plus physical therapy and laboratory services.

Bill Moyer, St. Luke’s West Region President, said, “This spacious, multipurpose facility further underscores St. Luke’s commitment to providing high-quality and convenient primary care and specialty services to our community.”

This MOB is just east of St. Luke’s Primary Care at 3420 Walbert Ave and St. Luke’s OMS (oral surgery) at 1620 Pond Rd.

The following practices are now open in the building, and each is welcoming new patients:

The Med Spa—St. Luke’s: Located on the facility’s third floor, these professionals make your health and wellness always a priority, combing personalized care with innovative aesthetic treatments. Here, your natural beauty is enhanced to reveal the best – most confident, rejuvenated and refreshed – you.

St. Luke’s Dermatology  Suite 301: The practice specializes in diagnosing, treating and managing skin issues in adults and children including acne, eczema, warts, scarring, psoriasis, skin cancers such as basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma and more.

St. Luke’s Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery – Allentown Suite 301: Offering surgical and non-surgical treatments to minimize the effects of aging, address congenital conditions, enhance your features, and more—all to help you look and feel your best.

St. Luke’s Pediatric Gastroenterology – Allentown Suite 202: This practice treats and manages digestive issues in children from birth through adolescence.

St. Luke’s Walbert Avenue Primary Care Suite 102: Our family medicine doctors are dedicated to helping you and your family maintain or improve your physical health and well-being. Preventive health, wellness and patient education are important parts of family medicine.

St. Luke’s Spine & Pain Associates – Allentown Suite 200: Our doctors and staff provide the latest medical and surgical treatments to reduce patients’ pain and to improve their quality of life.

St. Luke’s Orthopedic Care – Allentown Suite 200: Using advanced technology and personalized treatment plans, our skilled specialists address a range of conditions, from minor strains to complex surgeries.

St. Luke’s Chiropractic Care – Allentown Suite 200: This practice provides holistic, evidence-based therapeutic care to help ease body pain, promote flexibility and reduce inflammation in individuals of all ages.

Physical Therapy at St. Luke’s – Walbert Avenue Suite 101: Our goal is to get patients back to enjoying life without limitations, helping them move beyond a current injury or condition so they can take their health, mobility, fitness and sports performance to a higher level.

St. Luke’s Laboratory Services – Walbert Avenue Suite 100: Providing the highest quality testing and customer-focused lab services, including phlebotomy, laboratory medicine and pathology.

St. Luke’s Walbert Avenue Pediatrics Our pediatricians offer the following services to children of all ages: annual check-ups and well visits; same-day sick appointments; meet the doctor visits; on-call, after-hours availability; recommended immunizations; chronic disease management; referrals to pediatric specialists; and mental and behavioral health care.

St. Luke’s Colon & Rectal Surgery – Allentown Our surgeons specialize in the surgical and non-surgical treatment of colon and rectal issues, treating benign and malignant conditions, performing screenings such as colonoscopies and surgically treating problems when necessary.

St. Luke’s Gastroenterology – Allentown These experts diagnose and treat a wide range of gastrointestinal disorders, whether you’re experiencing discomfort, seeking preventative care or managing a chronic condition.

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 20,000 employees providing services at 15 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites.  With annual net revenue of $3.4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital.

Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania.  In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school campus.  It also operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 52 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 500 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke’s, a member of the Children’s Hospital Association, opened the Lehigh Valley’s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.

SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.  It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital.  The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune/PINC AI 10 years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.  In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally.  Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.  The Network is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest-cost providers.

Information provided to TVL by:
Sam Kennedy