St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit network of 15 campuses and over 300 outpatient sites. The health network is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
As of 2024, the network has over 20,000 employees.[1]
History
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 School of Nursing was opened.
The hospital acquired Quakertown Community Hospital and Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center in the 1990s and was reorganized as a hospital network in 1998. In 2006, a clinical campus of Temple University School of Medicine was opened at the St. Luke's Bethlehem campus, and in 2009, a four-year School of Medicine was established in Bethlehem. The health network celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2022 and established a new children's hospital the following year.[2]
About
St. Luke's University Hospital is a non-profit, tertiary-care, teaching hospital. The networks service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuykill, and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke's operates the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke's Children's Hospital.
Specialties
St. Luke's University Health Network is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems and offers 90 medical specialties, including:
