St. Luke’s University Hospital in Bethlehem has been ranked No. 6 in Pennsylvania on U.S. News & World Report’s latest Best Hospitals list.
St. Luke’s University Hospital has also been rated “high-performing” in two adult specialties (geriatrics and orthopedics) and seven procedures and conditions (abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, heart bypass surgery, heart failure treatment, colon cancer surgery, lung cancer surgery and treating COPD).
St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem (FILE PHOTO)
St. Luke’s is the only health care system in central-eastern Pennsylvania to earn Medicare’s five-star rating (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.
St. Luke’s also is the only health care system in central-eastern Pennsylvania to earn the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from IBM Watson Health (formerly Truven Health Analytics), which St. Luke’s has done repeatedly–six times total and four years in a row, including in 2018.
U.S. News generates its hospital rankings by evaluating data on nearly 5,000 hospitals.
The ratings in procedures and conditions focus on typical Medicare patients.
For more information about the ranking, click here.
About St. Luke’s
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, nonprofit network of more than 14,000 employees providing services at 10 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient sites. With annual net revenue greater than $2 billion, the Network’s service area includes 10 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe and Schuylkill counties in Pennsylvania, and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first and only regional medical school campus. It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 28 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 226 residents and fellows. St. Luke’s has been cited by IBM Watson Health as a 50 Top Cardiovascular Program. 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’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information. St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers.
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