Hazel Tuazon Launches New OB-GYN Practice at St. Luke’s Health Center in Fogelsville

St. Luke’s University Health Network continues its commitment to providing personalized, high-quality OB/GYN care to women in the greater Lehigh Valley area and is pleased to announce the opening of a new OB/GYN practice in Fogelsville.  St. Luke’s OB/GYN–Complete Women’s Care, located in the new St. Luke’s Health Center–Fogelsville, opened May 7 with St. Luke’s OB/GYN, Hazel Tuazon, MD.

Hazel Tuazon, MD

“I am excited to be opening a new practice and the many opportunities it brings for me and my ability to provide care to my patients,” said Tuazon.  “Patients can expect to continue to receive the compassionate and personalized care they have come to expect from me and from St. Luke’s.  Plus, my patients will enjoy a new office setting where they will have easy access to additional St. Luke’s services.”

Additional services that will be offered at St. Luke’s Health Center–Fogelsville include primary care, maternal fetal medicine, physical therapy and laboratory services.

Dr. Tuazon is board certified in gynecology and obstetrics and has been practicing at St. Luke’s since she completed her residency there.  Dr. Tuazon’s interests within the gynecology and obstetrics field include routine and high-risk pregnancies, minimally invasive surgeries, family planning, contraceptive management options and treatment for menopause.  Dr. Tuazon is fluent in English and Tagalog, a language spoken in the Philippines.

“I maintain a very busy schedule between medicine and my family,” she says. “It is a pleasure to explore the local and surrounding areas of the Lehigh Valley with my husband and our daughters.  I also enjoy traveling and cooking.”

“As always, St. Luke’s is 100 percent committed to our patients,” said Susan Cox, Regional Director, Women’s Health Services, St. Luke’s University Health Network.  “We are very excited by the addition of St. Luke’s OB/GYN – Complete Women’s Care practice to our Network and look forward to Dr. Tuazon’s continued leadership.  This new practice remains true to our approach of providing OB/GYN in a small practice setting, where our physicians get to know their patients and their patients feel valued and receive the compassionate care they expect.”

Dr. Tuazon is welcoming new patients.  Call 484-822-5154 to make an appointment. St. Luke’s OB/GYN – Complete Women’s Care is located at St. Luke’s Health Center – Fogelsville, 1251 Turnstone Drive (Route 100), Suite 203, Fogelsville, PA 18051.

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 15,000 employees providing services at 10 hospitals and over 320 outpatient sites.  With annual net revenue greater than $2 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 Lehigh Valley’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 Lehigh Valley-based health care system with Medicare’s five- and four-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.  St. Luke’s is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital.  In 2019, three of IBM Watson Health’s 100 Top Hospitals were St. Luke’s hospitals.  St. Luke’s University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from IBM Watson Health seven times total and five years in a row. St. Luke’s 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.