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Lehigh Valley Hospital Named Among Best in U.S. in Eight Specialties by U.S. News & World Report; Cited for the 11th Consecutive Year

Lehigh Valley, Pa. (July 7, 2006)

Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) ranks as one of the nation’s top hospitals in eight specialty care delivery areas in the 2006 U.S.News & World Report guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” more than LVH or any other hospital in the region has ever achieved. This is the eleventh consecutive year LVH has made the U.S. News rankings. It is the only hospital in the Lehigh Valley region to be ranked in 2006.

The 2006 list recognizes LVH among the nation’s leading hospitals for cancer care, digestive disorders, endocrinology, heart care and heart surgery, kidney disease, orthopedics, respiratory disorders and urology.

“This recognition from U.S. News & World Report belongs to our dedicated teams of physicians, nurses and staff,” said Elliot J. Sussman, M.D., Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network’s (LVHHN) president and CEO. “It is extremely gratifying to see them receive national recognition for the care they work so hard to deliver to our community everyday. It is a tribute to those clinicians and others that more and more members of our community are choosing Lehigh Valley Hospital for their care. This shows that others are recognizing that commitment and dedication as well."

According to U.S.News & World Report, “America’s Best Hospitals” assessed care in 16 specialties. In order to be considered, a hospital must meet one of three standards: membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH), affiliation with a medical school or availability of specific technology-related services. In each specialty, a hospital must admit and treat a minimum number of patients with sufficiently complex conditions, or be cited by at least one physician as among the best in that specialty in the past three years of U.S.News surveys. These hospitals received a score that equally weighs reputation, mortality and certain care-related factors such as nursing and patient and community services.

LVH cares for more patients at its Cedar Crest & I-78 site than any hospital in a nine-county region in six specialty areas including heart care/heart surgery and orthopedics, two of the specialties for which LVH is cited in the U.S. News rankings. The nine counties include Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Monroe, Montgomery, Lehigh, Luzerne, Northampton and Schuylkill.

“It is always nice to be recognized for the work that you do and to be considered among the best in your field,” said Donald Levick, president of LVHHN’s medical staff of 1,100 physicians. “It is especially gratifying when others notice that the quality of care you provide is improving the health and lives of the community. I’m extremely proud of my colleagues, our nurses and our staff because their expertise, commitment and teamwork in caring for our patients have earned this distinction.”

LVH’s latest “America’s Best Hospital’s” ranking follows other recent national and statewide recognition including:

National re-certification as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the only hospital in the greater Lehigh Valley to achieve this status.
The best data in Pennsylvania for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) for the third year in a row, according to an independent state agency.
Most Wired and Most Wireless hospitals 2006, and Most Wired Innovator Award by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine for creation of the Advanced Intensive Care Unit (AICU) tele-intensivist technology.
Top ten nationally and #1 in the Northeast among Verispan IHN 100 most integrated health networks for 2005 and 2006.
National Magnet Hospital designation, the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) highest honor for excellence in nursing.

A premier academic community hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network includes three hospital facilities – two in Allentown and one in Bethlehem, Pa. – and Lehigh Valley Health Services, providing home health, hospice, pharmaceutical and health management services. These three hospitals have more than 800 beds, 1,100 physicians on staff, 1,900 registered nurses, and are the area’s largest employer with a workforce of more than 8,000. LVHHN’s advanced regional resources include a Level I Trauma Center with added pediatric qualifications; a regional referral Burn Center for critical care burn patients; national certification as a Primary Stroke Center; the largest cancer program in the region and fourth largest in Pennsylvania; the Regional Heart Center – the second largest heart program in Pennsylvania based on volume; and an Advanced ICU with tele-intensivists to provide an extra level of care for critical care patients.

One of Pennsylvania’s largest teaching hospitals and a major teaching campus of Penn State's College of Medicine, LVHHN is also a regional resource for kidney and pancreas transplants, perinatal/neonatal care and neurology and complex neurosurgery. All three LVHHN hospitals are designated national Magnet hospitals for excellence in nursing.

This page last updated 7/15/08 09:58 AM

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