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About St. Luke's

St. Luke's helicopter with medical team helping a patient

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated, nationally recognized network providing services at 15 campuses and more than 300 sites in Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery, Berks, Monroe and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.

Message from the President & CEO

I am very proud of St. Luke's University Health Network, our facilities, our services, and especially our employees and our physicians. It is the special people at St. Luke's that make the difference when you need care.

Richard A. Anderson

Our Mission

St. Luke’s Mission is to care for the sick and injured regardless of their ability to pay, improve our communities’ overall health, and educate our health care professionals.


The mission will be accomplished by the following:

  • Making the patient our highest priority.
  • Promoting healthy lifestyles and continuously improving care provided to heal the sick and injured.
  • Coordinating and integrating services into a seamless, easily accessible system of care.
  • Improving the level of service provided throughout the Network.
  • Ensuring all health care services are relevant to the needs of the community.
  • Striving to maximize the satisfaction of our patients, employees, medical staff and volunteers, and
  • Training allied health professionals, nursing and medical students, and residents and fellows and attracting them to practice within our Network's service area.

St. Luke’s at a glance

Our Values

PCRAFT values are the guiding core principles of St. Luke’s health care team, the qualities we strive for with every encounter. Pride, caring, respect, accountability, flexibility and teamwork are the qualities our team will deliver every time.

PCRAFT values should always be on display – during a routine checkup at the doctor’s office, in a St. Luke’s Care Now facility, in the Emergency Department, during a same-day procedure or a complex surgery. As a patient or prospective employee, you can count on every member of the St. Luke’s team to display PCRAFT values in every situation.

Our Vision

We will:

  • Achieve top decile performance in national quality measures, patient satisfaction, & access measures
  • Provide exceptional service and cost-effective care
  • Be perceived as easy to use by all who access or provide our services
  • Create a lifelong relationship with our patients
  • Be one of the region’s best places to work

Our Focus

Our Strategic Focus:

People and Relationships

  • Physicians, Employees and Volunteers -- our most important assets
  • We will be the "employer of choice"

Simplicity

  • Continue to simplify management structure
  • Promote efficiency and effectiveness

Integrity

  • Transparent, accountable management
  • Ongoing adherence to our Management Philosophy

Quality

  • Focus on clinical process improvements using national benchmarks and appropriately share the outcomes of our ongoing focus on quality
  • Perform in the top decile in national pay-for-performance programs

Cost

  • Continue to be region's low-cost tertiary hospital

This is St. Luke’s

15

Campuses

350+

Outpatient facilities

20,000+

Employees

The greater Lehigh Valley's 2nd largest employer.

2,200+

Physicians & Advanced Practitioners

Representing more than 100 specialties.

100 top

Major teaching hospital

Medical school, nursing school, 52 accredited GME programs with 500+ residents and fellows

1,900+

Volunteers

90,000+

Annual admission & observations

365,000+

Annual emergency room visits