Featured Image: Newly expanded Sleep Lab at St. Luke’s Miners Campus, bringing advanced solutions closer to home.

Millions of Americans suffer from sleep disorders that can lead to serious health issues, including heart disease, diabetes, and depression. Unfortunately, access to specialized care remains limited in many communities.

To address this need, St. Luke’s Miners Campus has expanded its Sleep Lab, significantly increasing capacity and improving access for residents of Carbon and Schuylkill counties. The new eight-bed unit offers expert evaluation, testing and treatment to help restore healthy sleep and enhance overall well-being.

The expanded Sleep Lab now includes six additional testing rooms, six registered technicians and three Sleep Medicine Specialized Providers, offering increased access to provider evaluations, specialized sleep disorder treatment and testing closer to home. Work on the expansion was completed on December 12, 2025, after 8 months of construction, representing a $1.8 million investment in the Miners Campus.

Part of St. Luke’s Neurosciences, St. Luke’s Sleep Medicine provides comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for conditions such as insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome and snoring. Common risk factors for sleep disorders include obesity, advancing age, family history, hypertension, smoking, and being male or postmenopausal. The Sleep Lab expansion ensures more patients can receive timely, advanced care in this community.

“Sleep is essential for physical and mental health, yet millions struggle with disorders that impact daily life,” said Diana Laquinta, President of St. Luke’s Miners Campus. “Expanding the Sleep Lab reflects our commitment to improving access to specialized care for our community. We’re proud to bring these services closer to home for patients who need them most.”

Dr. David A. Cohen, SLUHN Section Chief of Sleep Medicine, added, “Sleep disorders are often overlooked, but they profoundly affect health and quality of life. Our team uses advanced technology and personalized treatment plans to help patients sleep better and live healthier. This expansion will allow us to diagnose and treat more patients, helping them achieve better sleep and better health.”

Common risk factors for sleep disorders include obesity, advancing age, family history, hypertension, smoking, and being male or postmenopausal.

If you struggle to get a good night’s sleep, ask your Primary Care Physician about a referral to a St. Luke’s Sleep Medicine specialist today.

 

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 $4.5 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 continuously operated School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 50+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 500+ residents and fellows.

In 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognized St. Luke’s ahead of nationally renowned Mayo Clinic and Houston Methodist as the nation’s three highest performing health systems for quality, safety and patient experience – affirming St. Luke’s status as a leader among the largest and best-known health care providers in the country.

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 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