St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) held a ribbon cutting Dec. 13 for the area’s newest specialty hospital for orthopedic surgery, where expert teams will perform same-day surgeries of the knee, hip, spine, hand and shoulder, and treat a myriad of sports-related fractures and other injuries.
The first patients were treated in the new hospital on Dec. 18.
St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital, built with American steel, is a two-story, 52,000-square-foot facility located at the St. Luke’s West End Campus, 501 Cetronia Road, Allentown.
St. Luke’s Orthopedic Hospital’s first floor houses eight operating rooms and 24 rooms for pre- and post-surgery care of patients, along with support, auxiliary space and comfortable family waiting rooms. The VELYS robot-assisted orthopedic surgery system and other advanced technology will be used to maximize safety, accuracy and quality operative outcomes. The second floor will contain patient overnight rooms, staff and supplies space and shelled-in rooms for future use.
Some 80 nurses, technicians, therapists and other staff have been hired to work at the new hospital, where an estimated quarter of all network-provided orthopedic operations will be performed.
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