St. Luke’s breaks ground on Monroe Campus expansion

St. Luke’s University Health Network broke ground today on its new four-story, 165,000-square-foot patient care building at its Monroe Campus.  

A ceremony to mark the start of the expansion was held at 11:30 a.m. at the site just off Route 611 in Stroudsburg. 

 “With the construction of the patient care tower, St. Luke’s is meeting the strong and growing demand for our nationally recognized healthcare services and keeping them close to home,” said Don Seiple, president of St. Luke’s Monroe Campus. “Our investment in growth is fueled by the trust the residents of Monroe County have in our providers. It will also allow us to meet the projected demand for our expert care in the future.”  

 The addition will double the size of the existing hospital. The new patient care tower, which is expected to open in early 2024, will be built on the east side of the hospital. It will house a general medical-surgical unit with 36 beds, additional operating and procedure space, expanded outpatient programs and a state-of-the-art interventional radiology suite as well as shell space for future development. 

 “This is a timely, well-planned and critical investment that will increase our population’s access to high-quality care that it needs and deserves,” said St. Luke’s Monroe Chief of Medicine Dr. Douglas A. Degler. 

The expansion project will employ 250 construction workers and will create 80 new permanent, family-sustaining jobs, with more to come later as shell space is occupied.  

 In keeping with St. Luke’s tradition, the patient care tower will be built with American-made steel. 

St. Luke’s Monroe Campus admitted its first patients in 2016. This hospital features private patient rooms including beds for critical care patients, an emergency room, a helipad, state-of-the-art operating rooms, a cardiac catheterization lab and the most modern diagnostic technology.