{"id":127929,"date":"2024-02-28T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127929"},"modified":"2024-02-28T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:23:39","slug":"a-surprise-military-thank-you-for-a-st-lukes-leaders-kindness-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127929","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise Military Thank You for a St. Luke\u2019s Leader\u2019s Kindness and Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo captions:\u00a0 Left: St. Luke\u2019s Smithfield Primary Care\u2019s April Treible, PA-C, thanked her supervisor Denise Horn, manager of practice operations, with a celebration of Horn\u2019s support of Treible\u2019s military responsibilities on February 19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s physician assistant April Treible, PA-C, surprised her supervisor, Denise Horn, manager of practice operations at St. Luke\u2019s Smithfield Primary Care, on February 19, by thanking her in a unique way for her flexibility and support of Treible\u2019s military role and responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Treible, an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, didn\u2019t buy Horn flowers, chocolates or lunch. Instead, she secretly nominated Horn for the Patriot Award, sponsored by Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), which recognizes a civilian supervisor who goes out of the way to provide encouragement to an active military member at their civilian job.<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s is a military-friendly organization that honors those who serve or have served in the United States Armed Services by building a vibrant community of veterans and allies and working with veterans benefit administrators to expand and facilitate access to St. Luke\u2019s award-winning care.<\/p>\n

In addition to being an employee of the Smithfield practice since June 2023, Treible also is a Captain in the Army Nursing Corps. Her role as a Commander for the 301st Surgical Augmentation Detachment, based in Ashley, PA, requires a significant amount of time away from her civilian job and family in Lehighton. Orders for training often are long-term and can come unexpectedly or at the last minute.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenise has been very understanding and a huge help with scheduling my time off, sometimes even at the last minute,\u201d said Treible, who joined the Army in 2016. \u201cI wanted to thank her in an official military manner and felt the Patriot Award was the most appropriate way.\u201d<\/p>\n

A framed certificate of appreciation from the Office of the Sectary of Defense was presented to Horn, a resident of Mount Bethel, as a surprise by Roselyn Schroeder (a Marine veteran) of ESGR, in the Smithfield practice\u2019s conference room. The high point for Treible was when she attached a pin to Horn\u2019s lapel that says, \u201cMy boss is a Patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Treible, Horn was speechless at the unexpected accolades. Colleen Poehler, Sr. director of Primary Care with Luke\u2019s Physician Group, said it is no surprise that Horn goes above and beyond for people.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenise has put in a lot of work to cultivate a culture that takes care of employees as well as patients,\u201d Poehler said. \u201cI am immensely proud to call her a colleague on the Smithfield Primary Care Team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The network\u2019s Veteran\u2019s Enrichment Team, a special committee comprising a cross-section of St. Luke\u2019s employees, is committed to ensuring that the organization honors veterans\u2019 service by providing specialized support in the areas of health care, employment and special events and programs.<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s also works with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide peer support services to veterans with the goal of reducing veteran suicide in Carbon County. The Victory for Veterans team of certified peer specialists provides outreach, counseling and education to veterans who may feel isolated, are potentially at risk for suicide and need mental health services.<\/p>\n

About St. Luke\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 1872,\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 20,000 employees providing services at 15 campuses and 300+ outpatient sites.\u00a0 With annual net revenue of $3.4 billion, the Network\u2019s 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\u2019s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke\u2019s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania.\u00a0 In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school campus.\u00a0 It also operates the nation\u2019s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 45 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 400 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke\u2019s, a member of the Children\u2019s Hospital Association, opened the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.<\/p>\n

SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s\u00a0five-star<\/em>\u00a0ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.\u00a0 It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades\u00a0Top Hospital<\/em>\u00a0and a Newsweek World\u2019s\u00a0Best Hospital<\/em>.\u00a0 The Network\u2019s flagship University Hospital has earned the\u00a0100 Top Major Teaching Hospital<\/em>\u00a0designation from Fortune\/PINC AI 11 times total and eight years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.\u00a0 In 2021, St. Luke\u2019s was identified as one of the\u00a015 Top Health Systems<\/em>\u00a0nationally.\u00a0 Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the\u00a0Most Wired<\/em> award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information. \u00a0The Network is also recognized as one of the state\u2019s lowest cost providers.<\/p>\n

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\nSam Kennedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo captions:\u00a0 Left: St. Luke\u2019s Smithfield Primary Care\u2019s April Treible, PA-C, thanked her supervisor Denise Horn, manager of practice operations, with a celebration of Horn\u2019s support of Treible\u2019s military responsibilities … Continue reading A Surprise Military Thank You for a St. Luke\u2019s Leader\u2019s Kindness and Support<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/April-Treible.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}