The acquisition of a Carbon County medical building is getting a boost from the state. 

Daniel Plavin, MD, uses his wilderness medical training to administer health services on challenging and wild terrain when he is not taking care of patients in one of St. Luke’s Rural Health Care Centers.

Keith Gray and Chris Peduzzi, former Philadelphia Eagles staff members, have joined St. Luke’s Sports Medicine team, part of St. Luke’s University Health Network.

Michael Sidhom, MD, MSPH, has been named Medical Director of St. Luke’s Occupational & Environmental Medicine, which provides workplace solutions to employers in the greater Lehigh Valley and New Jersey.

Three EMTs are currently being sponsored to become paramedics. The program has spots for 10 students and tuition for each would normally be more than $800, he said. Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Service is recruiting students for a new program it hopes will help it ease the shortage of emergency medical technicians, or EMTs. The ...

The Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation gave the hospital its approval, effective September 1, after a lengthy and in-depth review of the hospital’s specialized surgical services and other related medical resources.

St. Luke’s University Health Network is the first hospital in Northeastern Pa. to implant a new pacemaker-like device, the Optimizer, into a patient that prompts her heart muscle weakened by heart failure to squeeze more strongly with each beat, giving her more energy and quality of life.

As of May 6, 97% of St. Luke’s University Health Network physicians were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Bethlehem-based health network.

10 hospitals in the greater Lehigh Valley earned an A grade in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade report, including three Lehigh Valley Hospital campuses, and six St. Luke’s hospital campuses.