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Grand View Health Joins St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sellersville and Fountain Hill, Pa. \u2013 As of July 1st, Grand View Health has joined St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network, having received all necessary federal and state regulatory approvals.<\/p>\n

Grand View Hospital in Sellersville is St. Luke\u2019s 16th\u00a0campus, the culmination of a process that began in earnest last year.<\/p>\n

Last September, Grand View and St. Luke\u2019s announced they had signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to partner. On December 31st, both organizations signed a definitive agreement to proceed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us at St. Luke\u2019s are extremely honored and pleased Grand View will be joining our Network,\u201d St. Luke\u2019s President & CEO Rick Anderson said. \u201cGrand View and St. Luke\u2019s are an exceptional match for one another since Grand View, like St. Luke\u2019s, is committed to clinical excellence, has a similar culture and enjoys a long and proud history of providing high quality, compassionate care to its community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doug Hughes, who was named president and CEO of Grand View in 2022, will continue to serve as President of the St. Luke\u2019s Grand View Campus and report to St. Luke\u2019s Executive Vice President & COO Joel Fagerstrom.<\/p>\n

Hughes was initially appointed interim president and CEO in 2021 and led Grand View Health during some of the most challenging years of the Covid epidemic. He also oversaw the addition of a 190,000-square-foot pavilion at Grand View Hospital and the accreditation of the hospital as a Level II trauma center. He began his employment at Grand View in 2018 in the role of Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer.<\/p>\n

Grand View Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Loughery said, \u201cOur Board of Trustees and senior leadership team are absolutely thrilled and very grateful for our community that Grand View will become part of St. Luke\u2019s, an organization whose name is synonymous with the highest quality, compassionate care and whose truly outstanding culture is admired by other health systems in Pennsylvania and nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Headquartered in Sellersville, Grand View was established in 1913 as Bucks County\u2019s first hospital. It has grown into a nonprofit, community-based health system of 2,000 employees, caring for residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties. It has received an \u2018A\u2019 grade for safety from the Leapfrog Group and has earned five stars (the highest) for quality from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s is a fully integrated regional non-profit health care network with 21,000 employees and over $4 billion in revenue. With more than 350 outpatient sites, it serves 11 counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. St. Luke\u2019s hospitals consistently earn numerous national awards, including \u2018A\u2019 grades for safety from Leapfrog, five stars for quality from CMS, and 100 Top Hospitals designations from Premier.\u00a0 St. Luke\u2019s has continued to earn numerous employer recognitions, including being ranked as a Top Workplace by the Morning Call, the Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today.\u00a0 St. Luke\u2019s is listed by Forbes Magazine as One of America\u2019s Best Employers for New Grads and the best healthcare employer in the nation.<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s has an unparalleled track record of successfully integrating community hospitals, including the Quakertown (1995), Allentown (1997), Miners (2000), Warren (2012), Blue Mountain (2017), Sacred Heart (2018) and Easton (2020) hospitals. Penn Foundation, a mental health and addiction services provider based in Sellersville across from Grand View Hospital, joined St. Luke\u2019s in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Luke\u2019s philosophy remains that health care is a local issue, which has allowed all of the hospitals and other organizations that joined our Network to not only survive, but to thrive for the health and wellbeing of their patients and the economic benefit of their respective communities,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

About Grand View<\/strong>
\nGrand View Health is a community health system in Sellersville, PA, located an hour north of Philadelphia. It has served generations of local residents since 1913. Grand View offers inpatient and outpatient services in the areas of cancer, cardiology, vascular surgery, critical care, radiation oncology, labor and delivery, orthopedics, post-acute care, robotic surgery, hospice care and women\u2019s and children\u2019s health. In 2021, the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation accredited Grand View as a Level II Trauma Center, the only Level II trauma center in northern Bucks County.<\/p>\n

Grand View Health operates multiple outpatient centers and physician offices in Bucks and Montgomery counties.<\/p>\n

Grand View Health earned Medicare\u2019s\u00a0five-star<\/em>\u00a0ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction and an A grade from the Leapfrog Group.<\/p>\n

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

Founded in 1872, St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 21,000 employees providing services at 15 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of over $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. 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

St. Luke\u2019s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World\u2019s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight A\u2019s from Leapfrog across all of its 11 acute care hospitals. It has earned 100 Top Hospital designations from Fortune\/PINC AI 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\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.<\/p>\n

Information provided to TVL by:
\nGary R. Blockus\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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