Emergency Departments
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Allentown
St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus
1736 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18104
610-628-8300
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Highest Level of Care Close to Home
The Emergency Department at St. Luke's Hospital – Allentown Campus has board-certified doctors and trained emergency room nurses who are ready to help with serious medical conditions. Emergency room nurses at St. Luke's Hospital – Allentown Campus follow up every visit with a phone call to patients the day after they are treated.
Expanded to Meet Your Needs
The Emergency Department at St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus is equipped to handle 60,000 patient visits annually, from major injuries such as heart attack and strokes to more minor injuries. A comfortable, spacious waiting room area features flat-screen TVs and an area for children. The security office is adjacent to the waiting room. The new East Entrance main lobby, located next to the Emergency Department, offers a coffee kiosk and a new Gift Shop for the convenience of patients and visitors.
Additional features of the Emergency Department at St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus include:
- Convenient parking at the East Entrance, at the corner of 17th and Hamilton Streets, near the Emergency Department entrance.
- Rapid assessment in four new triage bays
- 19 new exam and treatment rooms. Seven of the rooms are dedicated as full-time Fast Track rooms for minor illnesses and injuries.
- Dedicated Fast Track open seven-days-a-week from 10 am to 10 pm. The goal at Fast Track is to have patients seen and discharged in 90 minutes or less.
- All-new digital X-ray systems located within the Emergency Department to further expedite care and treatment. Emergency radiology services are available round-the-clock.
- 64-slice CT scanner located in the Emergency Department. This innovative technology provides rapid, precise imaging to diagnose disease and life-threatening illnesses, including cardiovascular disease and stroke, while improving emergency wait times. St. Luke's Hospital-Allentown Campus is a certified stroke center.
Cardiac Emergencies
Patients who require immediate intervention for cardiac emergencies receive care in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories that are equipped with state-of-the-art technology from GE Healthcare. Open heart surgery is also performed at St. Luke's Hospital-Allentown Campus.
Critical Care
St. Luke's also has a 15-bed Intensive Care Unit with advanced monitoring equipment and staffed by critical care nurses is available for patients with more serious health concerns.
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Bethlehem
St. Luke's Hospital - Bethlehem Campus
801 Ostrum Street
(Borough of Fountain Hill)
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-954-4000
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The Emergency Department (ED) of the St. Luke's Hospital - Bethlehem Campus, which sees about 70,000 patients per year, provides 24-hour care with 140 staff members and 19 attending physicians and 36 emergency medicine residents. The ED offers a Quick Care program designed to treat patients with minor injuries in 60 minutes or less.
Please see the St. Luke's Regional Trauma Center at St. Luke's Hospital - Bethlehem Campus for more information.
Learn about the St. Luke's Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
St. Luke’s Emergency Department Statistics
- St. Luke’s Emergency Department is staffed by 19 board-certified emergency medicine physicians; St. Luke's Emergency Department offers a three-year allopathic residency program in emergency medicine. Typically associated with university-affiliated urban medical centers, St. Luke's joins no more than 10 other such programs across the state.
- John Patterson, MD, Chief, Emergency Medicine, also serves as director of the City of Bethlehem Emergency Medical Services and in 1994 was named EMS Physician of the Year by the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council and the Pennsylvania State Department of Health.
- St. Luke’s Emergency Department continues to publish peer review articles and abstracts in medical literature at a very high rate.
- St. Luke’s Emergency Department treats an average of 70,000 patients per year.
- St. Luke’s Emergency Department continues to grow at a rate of approximately 10 percent each year.
- Construction for St. Luke’s new Emergency Department was completed in 2000. The new facility expanded from 21 treatment spaces to 28 treatment rooms including a state-of-the-art 3-bed Trauma bay. Seven rooms of the St. Luke's Emergency Department are devoted to Quick Care patients -- those with non-urgent medical problems. Our newly completed ED expansion in 2008 now provides 36 treatment spaces.
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Coaldale
St. Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital
360 West Ruddle Street
Coaldale, PA 18218
570-645-2131
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Highest Level of Care Close to Home
St. Luke’s Miners Memorial Hospital ’s Emergency Department treats almost 8,000 patients annually and is accessible 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week. The staff offers life-saving expertise for those suffering from chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, lacerations, broken bones, high fever, dizziness and fainting, seizures, poisonings and other life threatening ailments.
Expanded to Meet Your Needs
The John E. and Dorothy Morgan Emergency Services Department, features 8,700 square feet of space with three general treatment rooms and five specific treatment rooms. There is a separate admitting area and ambulance entrance. The John E. and Dorothy Morgan Emergency Services Department is adjacent to the Diagnostic Imaging Department to facilitate the immediate imaging needs of emergency patients.
10-Minutes to Trauma Center in Bethlehem
If the need arises, emergency patients can be quickly transported to the St. Luke's Level 1 Trauma Center in Bethlehem. The Trauma Center is designed to treat the most seriously injured patients. A specially trained and qualified multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and technicians are on-call and prepared to respond at a moment’s notice. St. Luke's Hospital is one of only 27 trauma centers in Pennsylvania approved and accredited by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF). St. Luke’s Level 1 Trauma Center is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Trauma Network. PennSTAR is the network’s regional aero-medical transport helicopter and can fly patients needing trauma care from St. Luke’s Miners Memorial Hospital in Coaldale to St. Luke’s Trauma Center in Bethlehem in approximately 10-12 minutes.
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Quakertown
St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital
1021 Park Avenue
Quakertown, PA 18951
215-538-4500
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Highlest Level of Care Close to Home
Emergency care at St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital is provided 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week by the hospital's board-certified emergency medicine physicians. More than 13,000 patients are treated annually. The experience emergency department staff offers life-saving expertise for a range of emergency and potentially life-threatening conditions, including chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, lacerations, broken bones, motor vehicle accidents, seizures, eye injuries, poisonings and severe emotional distress.
Expanded to Meet Your Needs
A recently completed renovation and expansion to the Emergency Department increased the number of patient treatment stations, expanding the total to 11. The 5,800-square-foot space enhances physicians' abilities to provide prompt and specialized emergency care. The Emergency Department includes wireless telemetry equipment that allows for electronic monitoring of vital signs at each treatment station. The expanded facility also includes a specially equipped cardiac/trauma room; a separate isolation area for patients who may be carrying or diagnoed with contagious or communicable diseases; and a state-of-the-art decontamination shower for patients who have been exposed to hazardous materials. Larger waiting rooms and registration areas provide added comfort and privacy during a trip to the emergency room at St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital.
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