St Lukes Health Network Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO PROVIDE COMPASSIONATE, EXCELLENT QUALITY AND COST EFFECTIVE HEALTHCARE TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR, CREED, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN OR ABILITY TO PAY. THE ORGANIZATION IS THE PARENT ENTITY OF ST. LUKE'S UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK ("NETWORK"); A TAX-EXEMPT INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE DELIVERY NETWORK. THE NETWORK'S MISSION IS TO CARE FOR THE SICK AND INJURED REGARDLESS OF THEIR ABILITY TO PAY, IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITIES' OVERALL HEALTH, AND EDUCATE OUR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. PLEASE REFER TO SCHEDULE O FOR THE ORGANIZATION'S COMMUNITY BENEFIT STATEMENT.
- Income
- $147.7 million
- Spending
- $0
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 100%
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 0
- Highest pay
- $4.5 million, trustee - president/ceo-sluhn
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 53% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2510 of 14 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (8)
- ST. LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK IS THE TAX-EXEMPT PARENT ENTITY OF THE ST. LUKE'S UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK. THIS INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM CONSISTS OF MULTIPLE HOSPITALS AND NUMEROUS AFFILIATED HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATONS THAT PROVIDE EMERGENCY AND MEDICALLY NECESSARY HEALTHCARE SERVICES THROUGHOUT PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. PLEASE REFER TO SCHEDULE O FOR THE ORGANIZATION'S COMMUNITY BENEFIT STATEMENT.
- St. Luke's University Health Network (St. Luke's), founded in 1872, is a fully integrated, regional, not-for-profit network of more than 2,250 volunteers, 23,000 employees and 2,500 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, representing more than 100 specialties, providing services and at 16 campuses and more than 350 outpatient sites. Annual admissions and observations exceeded 110,000. In addition, in FY 25, there were 358,994 emergency room visits, 1,701,201 outpatient registrations, 229,654 urgent care visits and 4,347,213 physician care visits. With annual net revenue exceeding $4.5 billion, the network's service area includes 11 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Luzerne, Montgomery, Monroe and Schuylkill Counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Phillipsburg counties in New Jersey. St. Luke's, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, is committed to caring for the sick and injured regardless of their ability to pay, educating our health care professionals and improving the overall health of the communities it serves. MISSION ------- The mission of St. Luke's University Health Network is to care for the sick and injured regardless of their ability to pay, improve our communities' overall health, and educate our health care professionals. The mission will be accomplished by the following: - Making the patient our highest priority. - Promoting healthy lifestyles and continuously improving care provided to heal the sick and injured. - Coordinating and integrating services into a seamless, easily accessible system of care. - Improving the level of service provided throughout the network. - Ensuring all health care services are relevant to the needs of the community. - Striving to maximize the satisfaction of our patients, employees, medical staff and volunteers and, - Training allied health professionals, nursing and medical students, and residents and fellows and attracting them to practice within our network's service area. OVERVIEW --------- St. Luke's provided total net community benefits of $516,637,181. Comprised of: Charity care and means tested programs (the difference between cost of care versus Medicaid reimbursement) of $205,616,412 plus other community health improvement services/cash and in-kind contributions, subsidized health services and health profession education of $311,020,769. St. Luke's strives endlessly to provide the highest quality care at the lowest cost and has been recognized by various rating organizations as a high value provider. The network operates on a conservative margin. Any excess revenue earned is continuously reinvested on behalf of the community to improving health care services. In FY 25, St. Luke's margin (the difference between the cost of providing care and revenue earned) was 2.5%. To put this into perspective that amounts to about 20 days of payroll. Caring for the sick and injured - improving quality and access in keeping with its mission, St. Luke's continuously works to improve both quality of care and access to care in all the communities it serves. In recent years, both St. Luke's as a network, and its individual hospitals and programs, have received numerous, significant recognitions for quality. St. Luke's has made great strides in maintaining and improving access to health care services, especially in underserved rural areas and urban areas with low-income populations. NETWORK-WIDE HIGHLIGHTS ----------------------- St. Luke's University Health Network is the only independent health care network headquartered in the Lehigh Valley, governed by local business leaders. It is the Lehigh Valley's largest employer, and the only health system in Pennsylvania recognized as a national Top Workplace in 2025 by USA Today. St. Luke's aims to achieve top-decile performance in clinical quality and safety measures, provide exceptional service and be perceived as EASY to use by everyone accessing our services. The Network's flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times, including in 2023 when it was identified as the #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. St. Luke's is the only Lehigh Valley health care system to earn Medicare's five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World's Best Hospital. The fully integrated system includes many other health care services, such as home health and hospice. St. Luke's Physicians Group (SLPG) comprises more than 2,000 physicians and advanced practitioners. Additionally, St. Luke's Care Network includes independent practices with roughly 400 physicians and advanced practitioners. FY 2025 Highlights ------------------- In FY 2025, St. Luke's University Health Network continued to expand services and invest in the education of future health care providers. - St. Luke's finalized negotiations and work to add Grand View Hospital in Sellersville as its 16th campus, the culmination of a process that began in earnest in 2024. On July 1, 2025, Grand View Health joined St Luke's Grand View Health has joined St. Luke's University Health Network, having received all necessary federal and state regulatory approvals. Doug Hughes, who was named president and CEO of Grand View in 2022, will continue to serve as President of the St. Luke's Grand View Campus and report to St. Luke's Executive Vice President & COO Joel Fagerstrom. Headquartered in Sellersville, Grand View was established in 1913 as Bucks County's first hospital. It has grown into a nonprofit, community-based health system of 2,000 employees, caring for residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties. It has received an 'A' grade for safety from the Leapfrog Group and has earned five stars (the highest) for quality from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). - St. Luke's Upper Bucks Campus completed the construction of an $8 million, 11-square-
- - In December 2023, the Network opened the St. Luke's Orthopedic Hospital - West End Campus, a hospital for orthopedic surgery, where expert teams perform same-day surgeries of the knee, hip, spine, hand and shoulder and treat a myriad of sports-related fractures and other injuries. The two-story, 52,000-square-foot facility's first floor houses eight operating rooms and 24 patient care rooms for pre- and post-surgery care, along with support and auxiliary spaces and comfortable family waiting rooms. The VELYS robot-assisted orthopedic surgery system and other advanced technologies are used to maximize safety, accuracy, and the quality of operative outcomes. - In November 2023, St. Luke's opened the new six-bed Isaacman Family Children's Emergency Room at St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Bethlehem. The kid-friendly space, designed with a welcoming "under the sea" theme, allows children to avoid the added stress of an adult emergency room environment and reduces their anxiety while being treated. In addition to our board-certified pediatric emergency medicine physicians and specialized pediatric ER nurses, St. Luke's Child Life Specialist uses therapeutic play and education to make ER visits less frightening. As needed, the Isaacman Family St. Luke's Children's ER provides streamlined admissions to St. Luke's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Inpatient Unit. As appropriate, staff members refer patients to any of more than 40 pediatric specialists at St. Luke's University Health Network. - On March 1, 2023, St. Luke's Upper Bucks Campus opened a new three-story addition doubling the size of the hospital, which opened in December 2019. The $79 million project adds more than 117,275 square feet for a new Women & Babies Pavilion, expanded cancer services and room for future expansion. The first floor expands the infusion capacity from 10 to 16 chairs, adds a new suite of oncology specialty practices - medical, surgical, radiation, and gynecological - and includes a TrueBeam linear accelerator, giving patients access to highly advanced radiation therapy services at this campus. The second-floor addition houses five labor and delivery rooms, 12 post-partum rooms, four triage rooms, six NICU beds and two C-section suites. - In February 2023, just over three years after opening, Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital in Orwigsburg opened 20 additional private medical-surgical beds to accommodate the hospital's increased inpatient volumes. This brings the total bed count to 60, including 10 existing Intensive Care Unit beds. - St. Luke's Quakertown Campus increased the number of beds for inpatient psychiatric services from 13 to 32 to meet increasing demand. With this addition, St. Luke's University Network's total inpatient psychiatric bed capacity is 202. - In November 2022, St. Luke's Allentown Campus broke ground for a new Women and Babies Pavilion to meet the growing patient needs for these services at this hospital campus. The five-story, 85,000 square-foot tower is being built on the east side of the current hospital at 1736 Hamilton Boulevard. The expansion includes a Level 3 NICU with 10 NICU beds, nine Labor & Delivery rooms and 13 post-partum rooms. The project will cost approximately $50 million and is scheduled to open in February 2024. Emergency Services ------------------- - With nine trauma centers, St. Luke's operates the region's largest trauma network and hospital-based EMS unit as well as 26 Care Now walk-in urgent care locations. Outpatient Services -------------------- - St. Luke's University Health Network operates more than 350 outpatient sites, including the following recent additions: Behavioral Health ------------------ In FY 25, St. Luke's University Health Network continued to make significant investments in expanding the availability and access to high-quality behavioral health services, including the opening of an office in Tamaqua in June 2025 to serve the mental health needs of Schuylkill County. The new Tamaqua clinic offers counseling, medication management and other outpatient mental health services. It is staffed by seven clinicians, including a doctor, a therapist, an advanced practitioner and rural psychiatric residents. The 3,000-square-foot facility is the sixth St. Luke's Penn Foundation Psychiatric Associates office, with others located in Allentown, Bethlehem, Lehighton and Phillipsburg, NJ. St. Luke's Penn Foundation delivers 35 mental health and addiction recovery programs at more than 18 locations across the Network and through mobile services in the community. St. Luke's Penn Foundation is an Aetna Institute of Quality and an Independence Blue Cross Blue Distinction Center for Substance Use Treatment and Recovery. Adult inpatient mental health services are offered at three campuses: St. Luke's Sacred Heart, St. Luke's Lehighton, and St. Luke's Quakertown. Adolescent inpatient mental health services are offered at St. Luke's Easton Campus. Outpatient mental health services for children, adolescents and adults include individual, couples, family or group counseling, psychiatric evaluations and medication management. Mental health residential and rehabilitation programs provide personalized support in accessing services and resources, coordinating healthcare and working towards career, educational and other life goals. In June 2025, St. Luke's Penn Foundation opened an office in Tamaqua to serve the mental health needs of Schuylkill County. The new Tamaqua clinic offers counseling, medication management and other outpatient mental health services. It is staffed by seven clinicians, including a doctor, a therapist, an advanced practitioner and rural psychiatric residents. The 3,000-square-foot facility is the sixth St. Luke's Penn Foundation outpatient mental health office, with others located in Allentown, Bethlehem, Lehighton, Sellersville and Phillipsburg, NJ. St. Luke's Lehighton Campus opened the state's first mental health walk-in center in 2022.
- In 2011, St. Luke's senior leadership decided to join LKSOM in creating a regional medical school campus: Temple/St. Luke's. The inaugural Temple/St. Luke's class started in August of 2011 and graduated in May of 2015. In August 2020, the partnership between LKSOM Temple University and SLUHN expanded such that incoming students can now complete all four years of medical school at St. Luke's Bethlehem. There are presently 167 medical students enrolled in the medical school with an approximate enrollment of 40 students per class. On May 9, 2025, 37 Temple/St. Luke's School of Medicine students graduated at a ceremony at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, of which 13 graduates will continue their education at St. Luke's for residency. St. Luke's helps each medical student-many of whom are becoming the first doctor in their family-pay for their education through a yearly $10,000 scholarship. A Match Debt Relief program, started in 2020, provides tuition reimbursement to select medical students who choose to work at St. Luke's after graduation and pursue a career in family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, and pediatrics. The debt relief offered to each recipient depend upon the program and the years the student-turned-resident commits to continuing their career at the Network. In addition, St. Luke's continuously expands its post-graduate medical training programs. We currently have more than 530 residents and fellows enrolled in 60 accredited programs. The Network will have more than 60 fellowships and residencies by the end of the 2025 calendar year, with the addition of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship program. Other new programs added recently include Family Medicine Residency Grand View, the first residency program at the Grand View Campus, a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency, and a Foot and Ankle Physical Therapy Fellowship. At least a third of these residents and fellows will continue to work at St. Luke's following the completion of their programs - improving both the quality of and access to care in the region, well into the future. The majority of St. Luke's Graduate Medical Education Programs have been located at St. Luke's Bethlehem Campus and St. Luke's Anderson Campus, with continued growth expected at both sites. St. Luke's Anderson Campus currently has 216 residents with accredited graduate medical education programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, clinical neurophysiology, dermatology, diagnostic radiology, endocrinology, emergency medicine, family medicine, hematology/oncology, internal medicine, interventional radiology, neurology, otolaryngology head & neck surgery, pain medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, sleep medicine, transitional year, and vascular neurology. St. Luke's Anderson Campus also offers rotations for surgical residents, OB/GYN residents and medical students. The Network is also affiliated with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, and other medical and podiatric schools. SLUHN is accredited by the Pennsylvania Commission for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor CME programs. The network sponsors approximately CME programs each year, with more than 25,000 physicians, advance practice clinicians, nurses and other learners attending. Nursing Education ------------------ Nursing education is also a priority. St. Luke's operates the nation's longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884. The 20-month accelerated program features 900 hours of clinical experience within St. Luke's University Health Network as well as other local acute care, chronic care and community agencies. The school offers both a traditional day program and an evening and weekend program - ideal for people who are working or caring for children or aging parents during the day. More than 200 applications are typically received for each incoming class of 100 students. There are currently 382 enrolled students. Typically, approximately 75% of nursing school students has been hired by Network entities upon graduation. Currently 65% of the students are employees while they are in school and benefitting from tuition reimbursement. Since August 2022, the Network has offered eligible St. Luke's employees tuition coverage upfront. This represents a $26,000 value. Students at St. Luke's School of Nursing are also provided with a laptop free of charge to use for coursework. Additionally, St. Luke's partners with Northampton Community College and Lehigh Carbon Community College to cover the up-front cost of prerequisite classes for our employees. Employees must still apply to the St. Luke's School of Nursing program, meet application requirements, and be accepted. Also, St. Luke' provides a residency program for new nurses. Classes focus on decision-making, critical thinking, clinical knowledge and quality, as well as emotional support. St. Luke's nurses engage in research on quality improvement innovations supported by the network center for nursing excellence, the registered nurse residency program, the nurse specialty fellowship programs and the office of clinical trials and research. The St. Luke's School of Nursing's (SON) diploma nursing program is granted continuing accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) through fall 2029. This was a continued accreditation. The ACEN accreditation process included site visits and public input. That the accreditation is good through fall 2029 speaks to the quality of the SON program, the faculty and students who are part of it, and the support of the entire St. Luke's Network. Advanced Practitioners ----------------------- In FY 25, approximately 340 advanced practice students, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse anesthetists, rotated through various specialties within St. Luke's University Health Network. Over 860 clinical placements were shared amongst these students. St. Luk
- Clinical Trials and Research ---------------------------- SLUHN's physicians are involved with approximately 200 clinical research trials and studies - a majority focused on cancer, cardiac, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery and trauma. Improving the Overall Health of the Community --------------------------------------------- Every St. Luke's campus is committed to improving the overall health and enhancing the quality of life for the residents of the communities it serves. The individual campus reports provide many examples of how St. Luke's accomplishes this. In addition to the ways discussed previously, the list below highlights key points. In FY 25, St. Luke's: - Operated medical clinics to serve lower-income patients and those with inadequate insurance coverage. - Provided mobile medical services to school children. Services included physicals, adolescent health assessments, vision services, insurance referrals and nutrition counseling. - Provided mobile dental services to school children. - Provided a wide range of health screenings at numerous community events. - Conducted classes on life-saving topics, including first aid and life support. - Improved literacy by maintaining free lending libraries at various campuses and participating in school literacy programs. - Encouraged physical activity using the D&L trails and other walking/running/biking paths, and provided and supported numerous walks and runs. - Encouraged healthy eating through the farm to school program that provides school children hands-on learning about nutrition and gardening, employee access to locally grown produce through the expansion of the community supported agriculture (CSA), as well as numerous educational programs that educated patients on how to improve their health through healthy eating. - Worked with numerous media outlets to educate the community about health issues. - Held national drug take back day events, where unused drugs were collected. - Held food and clothing drives to benefit community members in need. Supporting the Local Economy ----------------------------- Although St. Luke's is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, the presence of its hospitals and other facilities provides an indirect benefit to local school districts and municipalities. St. Luke's is the largest, or one of the largest, employers in many of the communities where its hospitals are located. In FY 25 alone, St. Luke's paid $x.xxx billion in wages and salaries to approximately 23,000 employees. St. Luke's and these employees paid Social Security and Medicare taxes, and employees paid local income tax on their earnings. Most of these employees live in or near the city, town, borough or township, county, and school district where they work, and thus support the local tax base through the payment of property taxes and local income taxes. In addition, St. Luke's stimulates the local economy through the purchase of supplies and equipment, purchased services, and goods and services purchased by its employees. Also, maintenance of these hospitals and other network facilities - and construction of new ones -generate work for contractors, architects, designers, metal workers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painters and many more craftsmen. Furthermore, the circulation of hospital dollars has a ripple impact in local communities. In fact, the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) estimates that in FY 24 (latest available report), the effect of the hospital community on local economies in the Lehigh Valley region - comprising Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill counties - was including the ripple effect, $12.7 billion, and hospital salary contributions was $3.8 billion. Hospitals supported 53,481 jobs. Hospitals were the top employers in Lehigh County. Furthermore, hospitals in Pennsylvania delivered $10.8 billion in community benefit in areas such as enhancing community health, providing charity care to patients in need, training and educating the next generation of health care professionals, conducting lifesaving medical research, and absorbing costs associated with caring for millions of Pennsylvanians covered by Medicare and Medicaid. ST. LUKE'S UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AWARDS AND RECOGNITION ============================================================ In FY 25, St. Luke's Hospitals have achieved numerous awards and recognition associated with the quality of services provided, including: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: In September 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - recognized St. Luke's, alongside national heavyweights Houston Methodist and the Mayo Clinic, as the nation's three high-performing health systems for safety and quality. This affirms St. Luke's status as a leader among the largest and best-known health care providers in the country. The selection was based on publicly available data from CMS and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey. AHRQ reviewed 4,791 hospitals and 135 health systems with at least six hospitals. St. Luke's stood out as one of only three systems with multiple hospitals performing more than 75% above the national average in safety and patient experience. AHRQ and its contractors - Ripple Effect and the American Institutes for Research - conducted on-site reviews at two hospitals in each system, focusing on clinically complex patient populations across urban, suburban, and rural settings. St. Luke's Bethlehem and Miners campuses were selected for evaluation. Reviewers praised the Network's deep commitment to patient-centered care, noting that the "speak up" culture and "we fix things" mindset empower staff at all levels to raise concerns and drive improvements. Evaluators highlighted St. Luke's leadership development strategy and hiring for soft skills such as empathy, communication and bedside
- Leapfrog also awards "Straight A" designation to hospitals that have earned A's at least five times in a row. The following seven St. Luke's hospitals qualified: - St. Luke's Allentown Campus - 13 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2019 - St. Luke's Anderson Campus - 16 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2018 - St. Luke's Monroe Campus - 14 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2019 - St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus - 11 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2020 - St. Luke's Bethlehem Campus - 17 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2017 - St. Luke's Warren Campus - 14 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2019 - Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital - 8 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2022 - St. Luke's Easton Campus - 7 A's in a row - Straight A Since 2022 St. Luke's Earns Top Workplace Designations: The Morning Call newspaper has named St. Luke's University Health Network the Top Workplace in the large employer category. This is the third year in a row that St. Luke's has been recognized as a Top Workplace. Also, for the third consecutive year, St. Luke's University Health Network has been recognized as the #1 health care employer in Pennsylvania by Forbes Magazine. It's also a Top 10 employer statewide, ranking fourth in Pennsylvania behind Johnson & Johnson, Google and the Milton Hershey School. ranking fourth in Pennsylvania behind Johnson & Johnson, Google and the Milton Hershey School. In addition, St. Luke's was: - Named a Top Workplace 2024 nationally, in the Philadelphia region and in New Jersey. - Named a Top Workplaces 2023 nationally, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. - Was the only healthcare institution in Pennsylvania and the third-highest-ranked health care entity in the nation to be deemed a Top Workplace in 2023. In May, the magazine recognized St. Luke's as one of the nation's Best Employers for New Grads. In August 2023, St. Luke's also was named by Forbes Magazine as one of America's Best Employers for Women. St. Luke's was recognized on the inaugural list of America's Dream Employers 2025 by Forbes. America's Dream Employers 2025 was selected based on an independent survey of college students as well as employees working over the last three years for companies and institutions employing at least 1,000 employees in the U.S. from all industry sectors. St. Luke's was the only healthcare employer in the Lehigh Valley to be named to the list and is in the top 50 healthcare institutions nationwide to receive this designation. Society for Vascular Surgery's Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) Highest Ratings: In FY 24, St. Luke's Bethlehem and Allentown campuses received the highest possible star rating for active participation in the SVS VQI Registry Participation Program. These St. Luke's campuses are the only facilities to receive the highest star rating from SVS VQI in the Mid Atlantic region, which includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Operating under the Society for Vascular Surgery, the Vascular Quality Initiative is composed of 14 registries containing demographic, clinical, procedural and outcomes data from more than 670,000 vascular procedures performed nationwide and in Canada. The mission of VQI is to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness and cost of vascular healthcare. Newsweek World's Best Hospital: In May 2023, St. Luke's Bethlehem and Allentown campuses together have been named one of the "World's Best" hospitals by Newsweek magazine for the fifth year in a row. Of 414 American hospitals to make the list, 27 are based in Pennsylvania. St. Luke's was ranked seventh overall in the state and is the top-ranked hospital in Lehigh Valley on the list. To create this ranking, Newsweek and Statista Inc., a global market research and consumer data company, designed a rigorous methodology that evaluated hospitals using data from three sources: (1) hospital recommendations from peers, including an online survey conducted among tens of thousands of doctors, health care professionals and hospital managers in 28 countries; (2) patient experience through surveys of patient satisfaction with hospitals; and (3) medical Key Performance Indicators (e.g. data on quality of treatment, hygiene measures). Stage 7 Designation on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model: SLUHN was the first network in the Lehigh Valley to achieve Stage 7 designation on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. Less than 5 percent of U.S. hospitals have reached Stage 7, the highest stage on HIMSS Analytics' scale. HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Health Information Management Systems Society, is a healthcare research and advisory firm for healthcare organizations and governments worldwide. Following a rigorous review process, HIMSS Analytics grades hospitals on their application of electronic medical records. The Stage 7 designation recognizes St. Luke's extensive and creative use of electronic medical records to establish better service and higher quality care at lower costs. Hospital And Health Association of Pennsylvania Awards: In October 2025, six St. Luke's University Health Network hospitals - the most of any health network in the state - were honored by the Hospital and Healthcare Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for exemplary results in delivering safe patient care. The campuses are St. Luke's Allentown, Anderson, University Hospital - Bethlehem, Carbon, Monroe and Upper Bucks. In April 2025, a St. Luke's initiative was one of 12 recognized by The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) through its 2025 Achievement Awards for a project using predictive analytics to reduce cardiac arrests. Started in 1978, the program recognizes hospitals and health systems that are taking innovative approaches to strengthening safety and quality of care, enhancing operations and the patient experience, and partnering with their communities to address public health needs. St. Luke's project, titled "Realtime Vital Signs and Epic's Deterio
- In FY24 St. Luke's reported $462 million of IRS defined community benefit spending, approximately 16% of the Network's operating expenditures. The Network consistently ranks in the top decile for national quality measures and has earned over 200 prestigious awards for healthcare excellence. USDA Honors St. Luke's Community Health with Gold-Level Turnip the Beet Award for Its Summer Meals Program for Schoolchildren: For the second consecutive year, St. Luke's University Health Network's Department of Community Health has earned a Gold Level Turnip the Beet! This year, and also in June 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (USDA FNS) awarded St. Luke's University Health Network's Department of Community Health the 2023 Gold-Level Turnip the Beet Award - the highest level possible - for its Summer Meals program, providing nutritious, high-quality meals to children in need in the Allentown and Quakertown school districts during the summer months. St. Luke's was one of only 140 summer programs to receive the Turnip the Beet Award in 2024, one of only two, and the only one in Pennsylvania, to receive the gold award. The St. Luke's Summer Meals program was recognized for demonstrating a commitment to serving fresh produce to families, sourced from St. Luke's Rodale Institute Organic Farm. In addition to using farm produce in their lunches, families also had the opportunity to take home bags of fresh produce, along with recipes and meal-preparation ideas, through the St. Luke's Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. The St. Luke's Summer Meals program was launched in response to the Network's 2019 and 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). According to Whitney Szmodis, PhD, an epidemiologist in St. Luke's Department of Community Health, there has been a 228% increase in meals served to children since the program began. St. Luke's Receives Morning Call and Times News newspapers Reader choice Awards: St. Luke's hospitals have consistently been named by the Morning Call and Times News newspapers as a Readers' Choice award. In 2025, Morning Call readers chose St. Luke's as the Best Hospital/Health Center, Best Place to have a baby and best in the categories: - Adolescent Healthcare - Breastfeeding Center - Cancer Center - Cardiac Care - Cosmetic Surgeon (Jonathan Lam) - Dermatologist - Family Doctor - MRI/Diagnostic Imaging - Nutrition (tie) - Obstetrician - Oral Surgeon - Patient Care - Cardiology - Patient Care - Dermatology - Pediatrician - Physical Rehab Center/Services - Physical Therapist - Place to Work - Support Event Venue - Urgent Care - Weight Loss Center FY 24 QUALITY AWARDS ==================== St. Luke's Finance Department Teams Honored: In January 2024, St. Luke's University Health Network's (SLUHN) Cost Accounting and Financial Management & Analysis (FM&A) teams were awarded the 2023 Strata LEAP (Lead, Excel, Achieve and Progress) Award. This award distinguishes exceptional healthcare systems that utilize StrataJazz, EPSi, or Strata's Advisory Services team to deliver top-notch results in financial analytics, business intelligence and financial decision support. Although SLUHN has been using this software for several years, this is the first time that the team has applied for the award. In 2023 Strata received the most LEAP award applications than any other year in the company's history, triple the number of applications Strata has seen in previous years. Over 800 health networks utilize Strata. St. Luke's Earns HIMSS Davies Award: In August 2023, St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) was recognized as a 2023 HIMSS Davies Award recipient, making it one of only three health care organizations in the nation to earn the distinguished award three times. The Davies Award of Excellence recognizes organizations using health information technology (IT) to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving a return on investments. The HIMSS Davies organization receives hundreds of applications annually and awards less than 15. Other Quality Achievements ========================== - 2025 Premier's 100 Top Hospitals - 2024 Premier (Formerly Merative/Fortune, IBM Watson Health) 100 Top Hospitals - 2021 Merative/Fortune 100 Top Hospitals - 2023 PINC AI (Formerly Merative/Fortune, IBM Watson Health) 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals - 2021 IBM Watson 15 Top Health Systems - Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025 - CMS Star Ratings 5 - SLA/B/SH, SLRA, SLW, SLGV; 4 - SLCC, SLM, SLMC, SLUB, GSL; 3 - SLE - LeapFrog Top Hospital 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 - LeapFrog (Fall 2025) - LeapFrog Top ASC - 2025 HAP Achievement Awards - HAP Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition - Sepsis - Hospital Compare (July 2025) - 2025 American Heart Association Stroke Awards - 2025 Top Workplaces Awards - 2020 Premier Alliance Excellence Award - HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence 2019, 2022, 2023 - AHRQ, September 2025 Network-Wide Sponsorships ========================= - Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater LV Chapter - Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce - Girl Scouts - Kellyn Foundation - Latino Medical Student Association Northeast - Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley - Menopause Conference - Nightengale Awards of PA - Pennsylvania Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (PAPRS) - Pennsylvania Disabled Hunters - Ribbons of CARE
- Community Outreach ================== During Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 25), St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) continued efforts supporting the top priorities established through the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). These priorities, outlined in the 2022-2025 Implementation Strategy, are listed below and advancements and initiative updates from FY 25 are detailed in this report. Our efforts to implement sustainable initiatives that focus on a wide range of health and quality of life outcomes are a result of data-driven strategies to promote overall health and wellbeing. While there are many issues facing our communities, the results from the 2022 CHNA found the top priorities for the St. Luke's Network to include: TOP PRIORITIES (Fiscal Year 2025): - Connection to Care - Workforce Development - Transportation and Housing - Food Security - Nutrition Education and Promotion - Physical Activity Promotion - Access to Mental Health Services - Access to Opioid and other Substance Use Disorder Services - Access to Prevention, Treatment and Recovery - COVID-19 Removed as a priority (Fiscal Year 2023) The needs outlined in our implementation strategy serve as a guide to support strategic initiatives through the pillars of Prevention and Wellness, Care Transformation and Research and Partnerships. Through collaborations with community and Network partners, we aim to promote a more equitable society with better health outcomes for all, with an emphasis on supporting the diverse needs of our most vulnerable populations. The priority areas outlined in this document served as our guide in creating this Network Implementation Plan to best address the needs of populations within the SLUHN service areas. Results from the 2022 CHNA found access to care as the main barrier facing our community, particularly within the four main priority areas. The updates to the 2022-2025 implementation strategy include removing the priority area of COVID-19. Given the end of the public health emergency and continued decline of the pandemic, COVID-19 was removed from the implementation strategy as a top priority for the Fiscal Year 2023 update as well as for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025. Continued monitoring of COVID-19 ensures that the Network is prepared to pivot and re-prioritize as necessary. The 2025 CHNA for St. Luke's University Health Network was prepared and approved by the campus and Network Board of Directors and published online in June 2025. Access to Care -------------- - Connection to Care - Workforce Development - Transportation and Housing Chronic Disease Prevention --------------------------- - Food Security - Nutrition Education and Promotion - Physical Activity Promotion Mental and Behavioral Health ---------------------------- - Access to Mental and Behavioral Health Services - Access to Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Through our analysis of primary and secondary data, as well as the CHNA key informant interviews, forums, and surveys with community members, we see significant issues facing our communities that impede healthy lifestyles. Our efforts in prevention, care transformation, research, and partnerships help support our work to implement sustainable initiatives that focus on a wide range of health and quality of life outcomes. SLUHN supports a Department of Community Health that utilizes CHNA results to inform its strategic plan and catalyze initiatives that address priority needs for underserved communities. The Department's mission is to create pathways for equity toward measurable health outcomes through advocacy, access and navigation of resources for partners and underserved communities. The Department's vision is for everyone in our community to have access to exceptional healthcare built on a foundation of trust and compassion. Through collaborations with community and Network partners, the Department of Community Health aims to promote a more equitable society with better health outcomes, especially within the Network's most vulnerable populations. Community Health Liaisons and Community Health Workers (CHW) help to promote access to care, services, and resources through trust and relationship-building. Pathways have been established and strengthened to connect families to primary care, social services, food access, financial literacy, career mentoring, workforce development, and more. SLUHN is nationally recognized for its unwavering commitment to excellence in healthcare quality, safety, and performance. In 2024, SLUHN was recognized by the Lown Institute, an independent think tank advocating bold ideas for a just and caring system for health, as the third most socially responsible health network in the United States and the first in Pennsylvania. The Lown Institute seeks to shine a light on those hospitals that provide exceptional, high-value patient care to all who need it in their community -- and encourage all hospitals to follow their example. In FY 24 St. Luke's reported $462 million of IRS defined community benefit spending, approximately 16% of the Network's operating expenditures. The Network consistently ranks in the top decile for national quality measures and has earned over 200 prestigious awards for healthcare excellence. Notable achievements include: - Leapfrog Safety Grade: All acute care hospitals received straight A's for patient safety. - CMS Star Ratings: Awarded five stars for quality by Medicare & Medicaid. - Premier 100 Top Hospitals: Recognized for 11 consecutive years. - 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals: Honored eight times for outstanding cardiac care. In 2025, St. Luke's was once again named a Top Workplace in the large employer category by The Morning Call, marking its third consecutive year receiving this distinction.
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