Program areas at Lehigh Valley Hospital - Coordinated Health Bethlehem
Coordinated Health, part of Lehigh Valley Health network (lvhn), is an integrated healthcare system with locations throughout eastern Pennsylvania and western new jersey. Coordinated Health is part of the lvhn referral region for over two million residents of surrounding counties in eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania, and western new jersey. The new Lehigh Valley Health network - Coordinated Health (lvhn-ch) system is composed of 22 multi-specialty locations including two hospitals - lvh-ch allentown at 1503 north cedar crest boulevard, allentown, pa and lvh-ch Bethlehem at 2300 highland avenue, Bethlehem, pa; two ambulatory surgery centers located at 511 vna road, east stroudsburg, pa and 212 red school lane, phillipsburg, nj, eight locations with advanced imaging, eleven outpatient rehabilitation centers, six walk-in expresscare centers and six orthopedic injury centers. It has always been the mission, duty and purpose of Coordinated Health to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to our community by making healthcare simpler through process innovations and improvements that provide value to the patient. We continuously strive to deliver a better, Coordinated patient experience through collaboration of care resulting in the best possible outcomes as evidenced by our numerous quality awards based on the centers for medicare & medicaid (cms) data.acquired by Lehigh Valley Health network in december 2019, the Coordinated Health facilities are now operated as eight separate legal entities: Lehigh Valley Hospital - Coordinated Health allentown, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Coordinated Health Bethlehem, lvhn Coordinated professional practice, lvhn scranton orthopedic specialists, lvhn ambulatory surgery center of lopatcong inc., lvhn Coordinated professional practice of nj pc, ch urology specialists pc, and ch eye specialists pc. As such, lvhn-ch is driven by the lvhn mission to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate Health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research. In addition, the lvhn-ch entities have adopted the policies and procedures of Lehigh Valley Health network, including those related to financial assistance programs, charity care, and community Health needs.the sports medicine program at lvhn-ch boasts the most fellowship-trained orthopedic sports medicine specialists in the region. These physicians, who support the only division i schools in our region (Lehigh university and lafayette college), as well as east stroudsburg university, lackawanna college, and 18 high schools throughout our service areas, dedicate more than 1,000 hours annually to on-field coverage for the schools' sports programs. The sports medicine program and employee services programs have been vital to local schools and employers during the covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, we continued our partnership with northampton county to provide for covid-19 testing and vaccine drive thru services. Our collaboration allowed us to serve hundreds of residents of northampton county who received vaccines and boosters as well as free testing services which were funded by northampton county.the orthopedic walk-in injury centers at Coordinated Health were developed to provide patients who needed urgent orthopedic care with immediate access to orthopedic specialists without incurring the cost of an emergency room visit. The orthopedic walk-in injury centers became virtual during the covid-19 lockdown to enable patients to access triage and injury care from their home or wherever the injury may occur. This virtual service continues to the present as in-person services have resumed.lvh-coordinated Health Bethlehem (lvh-chb) is a 20-bed short-term acute care inpatient Hospital and surgery center. This Hospital, located in northampton county, pa served 4,844 patients in 2022 providing specialty surgical services to patient across the region. Lvh-chb is the proud recipient of healthgrades' Hospital quality award, the patient safety excellence award (2019), designating the top in the nation for providing excellence in patient safety by preventing infections, medical errors, and other preventable complications, as well as healthgrades' special clinical quality awards including the joint replacement excellence award (2021) for superior clinical outcomes in knee and hip replacement, and america's 100 best hospitals for joint replacement award (2021, 2020, 2019) for superior clinical outcomes in knee and hip replacement. At the onset of the pandemic, lvh-chb was the second of three lvhn facilities to offer urgent procedural care in a facility designated for patients without a covid diagnosis.in its continued effort to make high quality women's healthcare more accessible and convenient, ch opened its' second women's Health center at 2300 highland avenue in Bethlehem, pa in 2019. Specialties include gynecology, breast care and endocrinology. With access being paramount, patients can schedule appointments within 24-72 hours of calling either the allentown or Bethlehem women's Health center. For abnormal mammogram results, patients are can see a breast surgeon within the same time frame. Both women's Health centers feature state-of-the-art 3d mammogram technology, providing superior diagnostic accuracy.