{"id":140539,"date":"2025-02-20T22:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140539"},"modified":"2025-02-20T22:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:11:56","slug":"sluhn-named-to-top-workplaces-list-and-ranked-among-americas-best-large-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140539","title":{"rendered":"SLUHN Named to Top Workplaces List and Ranked among America\u2019s Best Large Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Featured Image: Evan Ochs, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for St. Luke\u2019s, center, with St. Luke\u2019s Top Workplaces awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once again, St. Luke&#8217;s University Health Network has received a Top Workplaces award in the large employer category from The Morning Call. This is the third year in a row that St. Luke\u2019s has been recognized as a top workplace by the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>St. Luke\u2019s was the ONLY healthcare institution named in the large employer category, repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. The Network also received the Top Workplaces \u201cValues\u201d award for its continued and outstanding commitment to values and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The Morning Call announced the awards at a ceremony Wednesday evening, two weeks after Forbes published the magazine\u2019s America&#8217;s Best Large Employers 2025 list, which ranked St. Luke\u2019s among the best large employers in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese recognitions are a credit to our employees,\u201d said Evan Ochs, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for St. Luke\u2019s. \u201cOur employees are our secret sauce. They are caring, compassionate, hardworking and committed to excellence.\u00a0 They care for our patients, and they also care for each other.\u00a0 Our employees make St. Luke\u2019s one of the best employers locally and in the nation, and our leaders support and recognize our employees for their efforts every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Top Workplaces list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a confidential third-party survey administered by Energage LLC, an employee engagement technology company. The survey measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization, including alignment, execution, and connection.<\/p>\n<p>Of more than 40,000 organizations nationally that participate, roughly 3 percent earn a Top Workplaces designation annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarning a Top Workplaces award is a badge of honor for companies, especially because it comes authentically from their employees,\u201d said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. \u201cThat&#8217;s something to be proud of. In today&#8217;s market, leaders must ensure they\u2019re allowing employees to have a voice and be heard. That&#8217;s paramount. Top Workplaces do this, and it pays dividends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"post-140539-m_-5702874017476345357__Hlk144970056\"><\/a> Separately, in its\u00a0<em>America&#8217;s Best Large Employers 2025<\/em>\u00a0list,\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0magazine ranked St. Luke\u2019s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>#1 in Pennsylvania<\/strong> in the health care industry category<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the top five in the health care industry category nationally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the top 20 for all industries nationally\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>#18 overall, following closely behind companies like Houston Methodist (#3), Google (#6), and Apple (#12).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About St. Luke\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1872,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slhn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>St. 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 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $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<p>Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke\u2019s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school campus. It also operates the nation\u2019s oldest School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 52 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 500 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke\u2019s, a member of the Children\u2019s Hospital Association, established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.<\/p>\n<p>SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction. St. Luke\u2019s is a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World\u2019s Best Hospital. The Network\u2019s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune\/PINC AI 10 years in a row, including in\u00a02021 when it was identified as\u00a0THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.\u00a0In 2021, St. Luke\u2019s was also identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. 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\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nSam Kennedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image: Evan Ochs, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for St. Luke\u2019s, center, with St. Luke\u2019s Top Workplaces awards.\u00a0 Once again, St. Luke&#8217;s University Health Network has received a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SLUHN Named to Top Workplaces List and Ranked among America\u2019s Best Large Employers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140540,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/best-work-places-sluhn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140539"}],"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=140539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}