Published August 14. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n
New facility to open in October at Anderson Campus<\/p>\n
St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network last week unveiled its new St. Luke\u2019s Heart Hospital, set to open at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus in October.<\/p>\n
The $252 million Heart Hospital is the largest construction project in St. Luke\u2019s more than 150-year history, both in terms of dollar figure and square footage.<\/p>\n
The five-story, approximately 355,000-square-foot facility, constructed entirely of American steel, is seamlessly integrated into St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus. A central corridor on each of the upper floors stretches 330 feet \u2014 roughly the length of a football field.<\/p>\n
Construction began in 2024 and has employed hundreds of skilled workers. Once fully operational, the Heart Hospital will support hundreds of permanent, family-sustaining health care jobs.<\/p>\n
The new facility will provide patients with convenient access to the full spectrum of St. Luke\u2019s nationally recognized cardiovascular services, including four dedicated heart operating rooms, one hybrid operating room, ten advanced interventional suites for cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and interventional radiology, in addition to a specially designed cardiac intensive care unit providing high-acuity heart patients advanced specialized care.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the Heart Hospital will be fully equipped with the latest, most innovative equipment and technologies to best treat our cardiac patients. This includes brand-new, state-of-the-art imaging equipment to see and assess the most intricate heart issues, heart-lung machines to take over pumping blood during open-heart surgeries and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines to provide patients with continuous, long term cardiopulmonary support.<\/p>\n
Despite its size and complexity, the project was completed at a relatively low per-square-foot cost by industry standards, a testament to St. Luke\u2019s extensive experience in hospital construction. In recent years, St. Luke\u2019s has built five full-service acute care hospitals \u2014 more than any other health system in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Designed to support learning and innovation, the Heart Hospital furthers St. Luke\u2019s educational mission through expanded teaching space and a new cardiac fellowship program. It also incorporates numerous design innovations intended to improve efficiency and enhance patient experience. For example, internal service corridors provide staff access to supplies and other support areas, facilitating better workflow.<\/p>\n
The facility also includes features that will improve flow and otherwise benefit the broader Anderson Campus, including a rooftop helipad and a new larger cafeteria.<\/p>\n
Located on a 500-acre campus overlooking the Lehigh River, St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus opened 15 years ago as Pennsylvania\u2019s first new full-service acute-care hospital in four decades.<\/p>\n
Since then, the campus has continued to expand to meet the region\u2019s health care needs. The original campus included a state-of-the-art cancer center and medical office building. In 2017, the addition of a $26 million Specialty Pavilion added new specialty services and an Ambulatory Surgery Center. In 2020, the $90 million Women & Babies Pavilion opened, introducing labor and delivery services, a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), graduate medical education space and a simulation teaching center, while doubling the size of the existing hospital.<\/p>\n
The new Heart Hospital adds 140 beds and nearly doubles the size of the Anderson Campus yet again.<\/p>\n
The Anderson Campus is also home to the St. Luke\u2019s Rodale Institute Organic Farm, which supplies fresh produce to St. Luke\u2019s hospitals, as well as an extensive network of popular walking trails. During the summer and fall, the campus\u2019s iconic sunflower and cosmos fields attract thousands of visitors from across the region.<\/p>\n
Outside view of main entrance to the new Heart Hospital, set to open in October at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson campus. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS<\/p>\n
An advanced procedure room in the new Heart Hospital at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson campus.<\/p>\n
Dr. Raymond Durkin, chairman of the Cardiovascular Department, and Ed Nawrocki, president of the St. Luke\u2019s Anderon Campus in Bethlehem Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 14. 2026 02:45PM New facility to open in October at Anderson Campus St. Luke\u2019s University Health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-265479","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\/265479","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=265479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}