GILBERTSVILLE PA – Only days after a public ribbon-cutting ceremony the new Gilbertsville Hospital, operated by the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), officially opened its doors to patients Tuesday (June 11, 2024).
The new, 22,000-square-foot facility, located near the corner of Grosser Road and Route 100, received final approvals from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Its grand-opening ribbon cutting was held Friday (June 7, 2024).
The hospital features “an around-the-clock emergency room,” LVHN noted.
Opening the Gilbertsville “neighborhood hospital” completes the first part of the new Gilbertsville medical campus, LVNH added. A medical office building, labeled as the “Health Center at Gilbertsville,” is expected to open later this summer.
Community leaders and LVHN officials, including company Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Michael Rossi, participated in the ribbon-cutting.
About the LVHN Gilbertsville campus
Health center services are said to include adult and pediatric rehabilitation, breast health services, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac and nuclear testing, cardiology, and laboratory services. Also offered will be orthopedics, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, primary care, pulmonology, and rheumatology. Obstetrics and gynecology services are anticipated early next year.
The Gilbertsville center is the second of several neighborhood hospitals LVHN plans to build in the Montgomery, Berks, and Chester counties region, it said. The stand-alone, licensed, acute care hospital on Grosser Road offers 11 beds in the emergency room. It also contains a 10-bed in-patient medical unit for overnight hospital stays or additional care, and ambulatory diagnostic services.
The network’s first neighborhood hospital, in Macungie PA southwest of Allentown, opened in March.
Lehigh Valley Health Network includes 14 hospital campuses: four in Allentown, two each in Bethlehem and Pottsville, and one each in Easton, Macungie, East Stroudsburg, Hazleton, Dickson City, and Lehighton. It also operates 29 health centers, numerous primary and specialty care physician practices, 21 ExpressCARE locations, pharmacy, imaging, home health, rehabilitation, and lab services.
Its specialty services include trauma care for adults and children, burn care at a regional burn center, kidney and pancreas transplants, perinatal and neonatal care; cardiac, cancer, orthopedics, neurology care; complex neurosurgery capabilities, and robotic surgery in 10 specialties.
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