Published November 08. 2025 03:55AM<\/p>\n
Six St. Luke\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Now in its seventh year, HAP\u2019s Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition program honored 22 of the Commonwealth\u2019s top-performing hospitals that have demonstrated low rates of healthcare-associated infections.<\/p>\n
The six St. Luke\u2019s hospitals recognized for exemplary safe patient care include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s Allentown Campus<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital – Bethlehem Campus<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s Carbon Campus<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s Hospital – Monroe Campus<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s Upper Bucks Campus<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the fifth consecutive year that St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus has been honored through the Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition program. The hospital\u2019s team received special recognition for demonstrating consistent, outstanding patient safety outcomes annually from 2021\u20132025.<\/p>\n
St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital\u2019s Bethlehem Campus has been honored all seven years. The Bethlehem Campus is the only hospital in the state to earn the designation every year that HAP has awarded it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere can be only one Number 1, and by these objective measures, it is St. Luke\u2019s,\u201d said St. Luke\u2019s Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Donna Sabol.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis state recognition comes on the heels of being recognized by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as one of the nation\u2019s top three high-performing health systems for safety and quality,\u201d Sabol said.<\/p>\n
The 2025 honorees were selected based on their performance during 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cHospitals\u2019 top priority is ensuring high-quality, safe care for their communities,\u201d HAP President and CEO Nicole Stallings said. \u201cHAP proudly recognizes the Pennsylvania hospital teams that went above and beyond to demonstrate their commitment to continuous quality and safety improvement and achieved exceptional results.\u201d<\/p>\n
HAP announced the 2025 Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition recipients Oct. 8 during its Patient Safety, Quality and Equity Symposium in Harrisburg.<\/p>\n
HAP identifies top-performing hospitals using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s National Healthcare Safety Network. To be recognized, hospitals must perform better than the mean standardized infection ratio in three key measures: central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and occurrences of Clostridioides difficile.<\/p>\n
CONTRIBUTED PHOTORepresentatives from the six St. Luke\u2019s campuses accept the 2025 Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published November 08. 2025 03:55AM Six St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network hospitals, the most of any health network…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-28501","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\/28501","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=28501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}