The healthcare system is facing another shortage and one school is paying students to study while another is opening a new program. The shortage – those that take your blood. 

St. Luke’s Lehighton Campus and Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital have been accredited as trauma centers by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation.

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) earned several American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with The Guidelines® (GWTG) awards.

For nearly four decades, Willis, a gynecologist and obstetrician, has been delivering babies at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem. Yet he remains one of the few physicians of color in the Lehigh Valley.

According to the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, the Lehigh Valley’s top industry by employment is health care and social assistance. More than 30,000 people work for the region’s two largest employers, Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke’s University Health Network.