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SureStay Plus by Best Western Reading North opens after renovations

The former Comfort Inn in Reading has opened as SureStay Plus by Best Western Reading North after more than $400,000 in renovations.

SureStay Hotels, located at 2200 Stacey Drive, offers long term stays as well as short term visits, the company said.

The 60 guest rooms facility offers updated bathrooms, 55-inch flat-screen HD televisions, in-room office space, microwaves and mini-fridges. Best Western said it also has three handicapped-accessible rooms and two king rooms with large, jetted soaker tubs.

The SureStay Plus by Best Western Reading North offers an outdoor picnic and seating area, a 24-hour fitness facility, a complimentary hot breakfast buffet and wireless internet.

“The updated SureStay Plus by Best Western Reading North provides guests with modern conveniences, high standards and a very warm welcome,” said Dave Panas, managing director of Operations for the SureStay brand. “We are thrilled to welcome visitors to Reading to this new and superior hotel experience.”

General Manager Vijay Joshi said, “Our hotel offers the most value, best service, and a plethora of helpful amenities. Guests of our hotel will appreciate having welcoming and comfortable accommodations following a long day of relishing in the wonders of the surrounding neighborhood.”

Rotoflow opens global turbomachinery hub in Shanghai

Bethlehem-based Rotoflow, an Air Products business, has opened a new Solutions Center in the Qingpu district of Shanghai, China, to better serve the turbomachinery needs of customers in Asia.

Using a local supply chain, the Shanghai facility will repair and service rotating machinery to serve the Asia market. The new Solutions Center features state-of-the-art diagnostic, testing, balancing and machining equipment and also will provide assembly and part cleaning as well as optimization and troubleshooting of equipment.

“Rotoflow is excited to open to our new Shanghai facility,” Aimee White, general manager of Gardner/Rotoflow & Standard Products, said in a release. “This new Solutions Center is an example of Rotoflow’s commitment to the region and will help Rotoflow meet customer needs and project demands quickly and efficiently.”

This will be Rotoflow’s fourth global hub, complementing ones in Bethlehem, Houston and Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Rotoflow also has field service technicians located around the world.

The Shanghai facility will be staffed with production technicians, machinery and operations engineers, a machinery designer and a customer care specialist; it will also be used to build equipment for high-purity nitrogen plants and support Air Products equipment for Hydrogen for Mobility.

In addition, the Solutions Center will service turboexpanders, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors, cryogenic pumps, small steam and gas turbines, gearboxes, fans and blowers.

Paula Wolf is a freelance writer

Mid Penn Bank to open financial center in Allentown

Mid Penn Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mid Penn Bancorp Inc., is opening a financial center in Allentown, its first full-service financial center in the Lehigh Valley.

A ribbon-cutting is being held today.

The new office, at 3900 Hamilton Blvd. in the Shops at Hamilton Center, received approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

“We are pleased to announce our plans for continued growth in the Lehigh Valley market and are excited to bring this modern and convenient facility to our existing customers,” Region President Frank Heston said in a release. “We also look forward to welcoming new individuals and businesses from the region to Mid Penn and our brand of banking.”

The bank is completing renovations of the new facility, which will feature multiple drive-thru lanes. Customers will be able to conduct traditional banking and account servicing, and have access to trust, wealth management and insurance products.

The office will also house regional commercial lending and cash management teams, led by Heston. Manager Mary Briody has been hired to oversee retail activities and day-to-day operations.

Mid Penn Bancorp Inc., the parent company of both Mid Penn Bank and MPB Financial Services Group LLC, operates retail locations in 16 counties throughout the state and has total assets of more than $4.3 billion.

Paula Wolf is a freelance writer

St. Luke’s Carbon Campus opens

St. Luke’s Carbon Campus hospital opened Saturday, Nov. 20.

The three-story, 80-patient-room, 160,000-square-feet facility is the largest of its kind in the history of Carbon County and the first new hospital built in the county in 65 years.

“This complex underscores St. Luke’s commitment to the health and wellbeing of this community,” says John Nespoli, president of St. Luke’s Lehighton and Carbon campuses. “At St. Luke’s, we believe in providing quality services locally that keep people physically, emotionally and spiritually healthy and help take care of them close to home when they are ill or injured, to ultimately enhance the health status of our neighbors.”

Construction will start in spring on a three-story, 50,000-square-foot medical office building connected to the hospital. Cancer, cardiac, orthopedics care, pain management and physical therapy services and physicians’ offices will occupy this facility, along with a full fitness center and more. This facility will be opened in early 2023.

St. Luke’s formally dedicated its Carbon Campus hospital on Oct. 30.

LVHN celebrates opening of Hecktown-Oaks phase 2

Jim Miller, President Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hecktown Oaks (with scissors) cuts the ribbon to open Phase 2 of LVHN’s first newly constructed hospital in nearly 50 years. Phase 2 adds 30 private patient rooms to the new hospital, which opened in July. PHOTO/PROVIDED –

Lehigh Valley Health Network today celebrated the completion of its Lehigh Valley Hospital Hecktown- Oaks Phase 2 construction project with a ribbon cutting and virtual tour.

The additional 95,000 square-foot facility in Lower Nazareth Township compliments the existing LVH–Hecktown-Oaks hospital, which opened in June 2021.

The second phase of construction included a four-story bed tower with 30 additional beds, that connects to the hospital to the north. Three of the floors within the tower remain unfinished and will be available for future growth. In addition to the patient beds, the first floor of the tower includes rehabilitation space and a grab-and-go café. An Intensive Care Unit is expected to open next summer.

“The completion of phase 2 of LVH–Hecktown Oaks less than six months after phase 1 was completed exemplifies our commitment to provide convenient and accessible care in our community,” said James Miller, president, LVH–Hecktown Oaks. “We look forward to offering additional services in our new state-of-the art space.”

The new tower also features optimal safety and infection control measures including indigo clean lighting just like the care areas in the rest of the hospital.

“As we continue to add more resources to our community, we are investing in the latest and greatest technology to keep our patients and colleagues safe,” said Dr. Pat Toselli, chief medical officer, LVH–Hecktown Oaks.

A helipad is also under construction and will be used to transfer patients with emergent needs. An LVHN MedEvac helicopter will not be based at the site.

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