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St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital is a two-story, 52,000 square-foot facility located at the St. Luke’s West End Campus, 501 Cetronia Rd. in Allentown. PHOTO/COURTESY ST. LUKE’S UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
St. Lukes opens $44M specialty orthopedic hospital in Allentown
Stacy Wescoe//December 14, 2023//
Listen to this articleSt. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) held a ribbon cutting Wednesday for the area’s newest specialty hospital for orthopedic surgery, where expert teams will perform same-day surgeries of the knee, hip, spine, hand and shoulder, and treat a myriad of sports-related fractures and other injuries.
The first patients will be treated in the new $44 million hospital beginning Monday, Dec. 18.
St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital is a two-story, 52,000 square-foot facility located at the St. Luke’s West End Campus, 501 Cetronia Rd. in Allentown.
“This hospital will provide the ideal orthopedic patient experience in terms of quality, comfort and convenience,” said St. Luke’s Chairman of Orthopedics Douglas Lundy, MD.
St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital’s first floor houses eight operating rooms and 24 rooms for pre- and post-surgery care of patients, along with support, auxiliary space and comfortable family waiting rooms. The VELYS robot-assisted orthopedic surgery system and other advanced technology will be used to maximize safety, accuracy and quality operative outcomes. The second floor will contain patient overnight rooms, staff and supplies space and shelled-in rooms for future use.
Around 80 nurses, technicians, therapists and other staff have been hired to work at the new hospital, where an estimated quarter of all network-provided orthopedic operations will be performed.
The St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital was designed with both the present and future needs of patients in mind, said Lundy.
“We have built the hospital in a way that will enable it to provide the very latest and best in orthopedic technology and care for years to come,” he said.
