{"id":239646,"date":"2026-07-09T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239646\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:29:08","slug":"thomas-jefferson-university-to-expand-medical-college-to-lehigh-valley-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239646\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson University to expand medical college to Lehigh Valley | Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Thomas Jefferson University will be expanding its Sidney Kimmel Medical College to the Lehigh Valley, according to a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>School officials will be announcing a new region campus of Sidney Kimmel Medical College on Monday at 10:00 a.m. at One Center Square in Allentown, the news release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The expansion will bring access to world-class medical education and clinal training to the Lehigh Valley region, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lehigh Valley is one of Pennsylvania&#8217;s fastest-growing regions and faces increasing demand for physicians and healthcare professionals. The expansion plans will build on Jefferson\u2019s longstanding clinical education partnership in the region and will help create a sustainable pipeline of physicians to meet the growing healthcare needs of the community,&#8221; the news release states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Interviews with Jefferson leadership and elected officials, and building tours will be available following the press event, according to the news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Thomas Jefferson University will be expanding its Sidney Kimmel Medical College to the Lehigh Valley,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[214,232,69,71,70,233],"class_list":["post-239646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646","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=239646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}