Another neighborhood hospital, LVH\u2013Hellertown, located just off Interstate 78, is set to open in 2027.<\/p>\n
Neighborhood hospitals are licensed and accredited acute care facilities, with a full-service Emergency Department. They are open 24 hours a day, year-round. LVH\u2013Coopersburg, like its counterparts, will feature 11 emergency room beds and 10 inpatient beds for those requiring overnight stays or additional monitoring and testing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBreaking ground on our fifth neighborhood hospital is an exciting milestone for Jefferson and the communities we serve. This investment will bring leading-edge care closer to home and create new opportunities for individuals and families across Lehigh County and the surrounding region to access exceptional healthcare in a convenient, community-based setting,\u201d said Baligh Yehia, MD, President, Jefferson Health. \u201cLVH\u2013Coopersburg represents our ongoing effort to anticipate and respond to the evolving healthcare needs of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holly Badali, Chief Operating Officer, Neighborhood Hospitals, says Jefferson\u2019s neighborhood hospitals have filled a real need in the region \u2014 a place close to home for emergency care.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese neighborhood hospitals also provide peace of mind, giving moms, dads, retirees, and everyone in between the comfort of knowing help is just down the road. And not just any help, but the care, expertise, and compassion that define Jefferson,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Anyone requiring more acute care can be stabilized at a neighborhood hospital and taken to a larger Jefferson hospital with increased capability.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen minutes matter, neighborhood hospitals save lives,\u201d said Eric Bean, DO, System Director for Neighborhood Hospitals. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen it firsthand. Patients experiencing heart attacks, strokes, and other emergencies receive critical care faster and have better outcomes because help is right down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another neighborhood hospital, LVH\u2013Hellertown, located just off Interstate 78, is set to open in 2027. Neighborhood hospitals are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-315593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315593","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=315593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}