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<\/a>Sadie Kennedy, a senior majoring in film and TV at Boston University, worked on St. Luke\u2019s on Media Production Services team. Considering a career in film editing, she welcomed the opportunity to edit digital footage and create videos used in social media posts and on St. Luke’s website, including\u00a0Find a Doctor<\/em>\u00a0videos. She attended planning sessions, offered ideas, interviewed physicians and operated the camera. Among her more interesting projects was a piece on Franklin, the therapy dog who works with physical therapists, and another about the bee hives at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus. She will add the videos to her portfolio, showing her capabilities.<\/p>\n Experience gained will also help her with her university’s senior project of making a video. “I’m much more comfortable making the video on my own due to the experience I gained at St. Luke’s. My internship has taught me how to set up lighting, use the camera and on-set etiquette. Personally, it was a very good experience.”<\/p>\n Rory O’Connor, a Lehigh University Business Information Systems senior, worked in the Supply Chain Department on Project Nexus, a PAR (periodic automation replenishment) inventory management initiative to optimize items kept in stock.<\/p>\n “We are trying to right size our PARs and I was in charge of creating a standardized process at each campus,” he said. “I worked with Inventory control, clinical staff and Deloitte (consulting firm) to make these decisions. My project isn’t finished yet, but we are expecting $100,000 of savings or more.”<\/p>\n In addition to working in their departments, interns receive skills-building workshops, networking events, lunch-and-learn sessions, one-to-one career coaching and social activities. The career development offered in the intern program and the professional work experience help interns become better employees.<\/p>\n “There’s great data that supports that interns who turn into full-time employees have a higher retention rate than other employees because they had the opportunity to test drive the role and get to know the manager and the team,” Reger said.<\/p>\n She believes that when interns get a chance to experience St. Luke’s culture, they will also choose to stay and continue their careers in the Network. Reger shared, “Internships are a powerful tool to attracting the next generation of health care professionals.”<\/p>\n For more information, see:\u00a0https:\/\/www.slhn.org\/careers\/students-career-paths\/paid-internships<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About St. Luke\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n Founded in 1872,\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(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 $4 billion, the Network\u2019s 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\u2019s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke\u2019s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school campus. It also operates the nation\u2019s 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\u2019s, a member of the Children\u2019s Hospital Association, established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.<\/p>\n SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction. St. Luke\u2019s is a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World\u2019s Best Hospital. The Network\u2019s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune\/PINC AI 10 years in a row, including in\u00a02021 when it was identified as\u00a0THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.\u00a0In 2021, St. Luke\u2019s was also 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 SLUHN\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Information provided to TVl by: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featured Image: Group photo of summer 2025 non-clinical interns. 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