News Media Invited to Special Viewing of ‘Getting Grace’ Movie

St. Luke’s University Health Network is holding a special screening of Getting Grace, a major motion picture release filmed entirely in the Lehigh Valley with scenes at St. Luke’s University Health Network, for St. Luke’s employees, friends and family.

Where: Charter Arts School, 321 E. 3^rd Street, Bethlehem

When: May 10th at 4pm and 7pm

News media are also welcome to attend. News media to RSVP to Sam Kennedy, Corporate Communications Director, 484-526-4134, samuel.kennedy@sluhn.org.

The lead actor and director of Getting Grace is Daniel Roebuck, a Lehigh Valley native, who has starred in over 230 movies and TV shows including The Fugitive, Lost, Matlock and many more.

Getting Grace features Grace, played by Madelyn Dundon, a graduate of Bethlehem Catholic High School, as a teenage girl dying of cancer, who visits a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the funeral director, Bill Jankowski (played by Daniel Roebuck), how to celebrate life.

Daniel Roebuck will be in attendance at the screenings for photo opportunities.

These special movie screenings are free to all employees, but a suggested donation of $5 to benefit St. Luke’s Hospice House will be appreciated.

Media Contact:

Sam Kennedy, Corporate Communications Director, 484-526-4134, samuel.kennedy@sluhn.org

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of 14,000 employees providing services at 10 hospitals and over 300 outpatient sites.  With annual net revenue of $1.9 billion, the Network’s service area includes 10 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe and Schuylkill counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.  Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania.  In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first and only regional medical school campus.  It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 28 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 226 residents and fellows.  St. Luke’s is the only health care system in central-eastern Pennsylvania to earn Medicare’s five-star rating (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.  St. Luke’s has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from IBM Watson Health (formerly Truven Health Analytics) repeatedly – six times total and four years in a row including 2018.  It has also been cited by IBM Watson Health as a 50 Top Cardiovascular Program.  Utilizing the EPIC electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.  St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers.