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St. Luke’s Simulation Center has unveiled a customized 2020 Freightliner M2 truck that will serve as a mobile training unit. A centerpiece of the new unit is an innovative human simulator that can cough, cry, bleed, sweat and even speak a few words on its own.
A new medical center in the Saucon Valley area will host a community open house on Saturday, June 22 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. St. Luke’s Center Valley Health Center will offer healthy family-friendly activities, tours, free health screenings, giveaways and healthy snacks.
St. Luke’s University Health Network recently welcomed Dr. Elizabeth Adams, a board-certified specialist in pediatric cardiology who’s also the only board-certified adult congenital heart disease specialist in the Lehigh Valley.
St. Luke’s University Health Network broke ground in May 2018 on Bucks County’s newest hospital, which is currently under construction near Quakertown. It will be known as St. Luke’s Upper Bucks when it opens in the fall.
Although the social stigma of drug abuse may have seemed a world away from a subdued gathering on the sunlit patio of Steel Club in Lower Saucon Township earlier this month, the pain shared by attendees whose lives have been shattered by it was very real.
Well-known Lehigh Valley dermatologist Stephen Senft, MD, a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, has joined Andrew Krakowski, MD, the region’s only pediatric dermatologist; Alan Westheim, MD; and the rest of the expert staff at St. Luke’s Dermatology.
Will Towne’s Ride Across America 2019, a 3,695-mile bike ride across the United States from Oregon to New Hampshire, is scheduled for June 23 to Aug. 12. It will benefit St. Luke’s Hospice and the Joshua W. Wesner Memorial Scholarship.
Saucon Valley School District officials are urging the parents of any students who are unvaccinated against chicken pox to get them vaccinated, after a high school student was confirmed to have the illness.
St. Luke’s University Health Network, a leading employer in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding region, has earned a Governor’s Employer Award for outstanding hiring practices that move people off government assistance and into financially stable jobs.
St. Luke’s University Health Network recently earned an Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for its outstanding efforts to improve health care in the state.
If you’re like most people in southeastern Pennsylvania you’ve probably been hearing a lot about the spotted lanternfly lately, as state and local officials brace for another season of unwanted impacts by the invasive insect species.
