St. Luke’s University Health Network recently completed its triennial Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and will present the findings in a series of public presentations. The community is encouraged to attend these sessions and participate in the discussion.

As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, nonprofit hospitals are required to conduct a CHNA every three years to maintain tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The goal of the assessment is to identify critical health disparities faced by populations within St. Luke’s service areas. The assessments reflect health priorities identified by community stakeholders, hospital professionals and public health experts.

Additionally, regional implementation plans are developed to build collaborative partnerships that support the allocation of resources to address the specified health needs.

St. Luke’s will be presenting the CHNA community meetings at the following dates and times. (These events are free; however, registration is required.)

• Geisinger St. Luke’s – September 17, 10:00 – 11:30 am, at Alvernia University
• St. Luke’s Monroe – September 18, 12:00 – 1:30 pm, at Northampton Community College – Pocono Campus
• St. Luke’s Anderson & Easton – September 29, 9:30 – 11:00 am, at St. Luke’s Easton Campus (Kroner Auditorium)
• St. Luke’s Lehighton, Carbon, & Miners – September 30, 2:30 – 4:00 pm, at Carbon County Technical Institute
• St. Luke’s Allentown & Sacred Heart – October 9, 9:30 – 11:00 am, at St. Luke’s Sacred Heart (Auditorium)
• St. Luke’s Bethlehem – October 20, 2:00 – 3:30 pm, at Nitschmann Middle School
• St. Luke’s Quakertown, Upper Bucks, & Grand View – October 21, 2:00 – 3:30 pm, at St. Luke’s Penn Foundation
• St. Luke’s Warren – 2025 Annual Report to the Community, December 15, 5:00 – 6:00 pm virtual via Microsoft Teams

“We thank our communities who have been a part of our Community Health Needs Assessment process since 2013,” said Rajika Reed, Ph.D., MPH, M.Ed., St. Luke’s Vice President of Community Health. “We are pleased that we had over 15,000 respondents complete our survey, so your voices were heard. This provided valuable data that we are looking forward to sharing with you. Please join us to learn more about our communities.”

To view our current and previous CHNA reports, please use the following link: https://www.slhn.org/community-health/community-health-needs-assessment. If you have any questions regarding any of these reports, please contact the Department of Community Health at 484-526-2100.

 

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network with annual net revenue of more than $4 billion. With 23,000+ employees at 16 hospital campuses and 350+ outpatient sites, it is the Lehigh Valley’s biggest employer.

The Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital.

Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school. It also operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 50+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 500+ residents and fellows.

St. Luke’s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight A’s from Leapfrog across all of its 11 acute care hospitals. It has earned 100 Top Hospital designations from Premier 11 years in a row, including in 2021 when its flagship University Hospital was identified as THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. 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 SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.

Information provided to TVL by:
Sam Kennedy