Lehigh Valley Health Network

LVHN has 981 licensed-acute beds on its three campuses.[1][2] In 2007, there were 50,070 admissions, 14,319 inpatient surgeries, 453,477 outpatient visits, 14,841 outpatient surgeries, 119,017 ER visits, and 3,184 births in network hospitals.[1][2] LVHN operates the third largest heart surgery program in Pennsylvania with more than 1,200 open-heart procedures performed each year.[3] Pennsylvania's first Level One Trauma Center was at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest and this trauma center remains the only Level I trauma center in the Lehigh Valley with additional qualifications in pediatric trauma.[3] The LVHN Cancer Center is the fourth largest in Pennsylvania and cares for more than 2,400 new patients each year.[3]

In fiscal year 2014, LVHN's operating income increased by $9 million to $42 million. Acute admissions were up more than 2 percent to 55,000. Also up were emergency room visits, which increased 7 percent to 190,000. In 2014, the not-for-profit LVHN increased its community benefit - a combination of free care, reduced-cost care, education and other efforts that make up the foundation of the network's not-for-profit status - by 8 percent to $354 million. That supported more than 11,000 free flu shots distributed at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in South Whitehall Township and Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, and a dental van that provides free care to more than 1,000 children yearly. The benefit also helps to cover the growing differential between health care costs and how much Medicaid and Medicare are willing to reimburse.[4]

Tracing its roots back to Allentown Hospital, founded in 1899, LVHN has grown to include nine regional hospital campuses, physicians practices and groups, clinics, testing, and imaging centers, health centers and urgent care locations. The hospital campuses are:

• Official website
• Lehigh Valley Health Network at Twitter