{"id":220510,"date":"2026-06-16T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220510\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:46:09","slug":"lvh-cedar-crest-and-lvh-muhlenberg-part-of-jefferson-health-among-the-leapfrog-groups-top-u-s-hospitals-for-diabetes-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220510\/","title":{"rendered":"LVH\u2013Cedar Crest and LVH\u2013Muhlenberg, Part of Jefferson Health, Among The Leapfrog Group\u2019s Top U.S. Hospitals for Diabetes Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/locations\/lehigh-valley-hospital-cedar-crest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)\u2013Cedar Crest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/locations\/lehigh-valley-hospital-muhlenberg\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"9093596f-7f71-488d-bc2a-36f671d46f79\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LVH\u2013Muhlenberg<\/a>, part of Jefferson Health, are among 37 U.S. hospitals recognized as Leaders in Caring for People With Diabetes, a distinction awarded by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The Leapfrog Group. The designation reflects high performance in delivering safe, evidence-based care for hospitalized patients with diabetes during admission, hospital stay and discharge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelivering high-quality diabetes care requires consistency, coordination and a strong focus on patient safety at every step,\u201d said Bob Begliomini, PharmD, Executive Vice President, Regional President, Jefferson Health &#8211; Lehigh Valley Region. \u201cThis recognition reflects how our teams apply evidence-based practices, support patients throughout their stay and help them transition safely from the hospital to home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program recognizes hospitals aligned with the ADA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/professional.diabetes.org\/standards-of-care\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Standards of Care in Diabetes<\/a> and Leapfrog\u2019s standards for excellence in hospital safety and quality. Hospitals are assessed on the implementation of these processes and on how well they execute care delivered to patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)\u2013Cedar Crest and LVH\u2013Muhlenberg, part of Jefferson Health, are among 37 U.S. hospitals recognized as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-220510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}