4/24/17
by News Department on 04/24/17LVHN Hazleton...
Lehigh Valley Health Network announced plans to modernize and renovate the existing Lehigh Valley Hospital–Hazleton on East Broad Street.
The work includes a major expansion of services that will create a health care campus at the existing Health & Wellness Center along the Airport Beltway in Hazle and Butler townships.
Dr. Brian Nester, president and chief executive officer of LVHN, said its leadership and industry experts conducted a nearly two-year assessment of health care needs and trends in both the region and the industry.
Nester said the assessment determined it was not prudent to construct a full replacement hospital, but to focus on outpatient services, while maintaining and modernizing the current hospital.
In addition to modernizing and renovating the existing 42-year-old hospital and expanding the Health & Wellness Center, LVHN’s plan calls for expansion of a center city location that currently offers ExpressCARE and Lehigh Valley Physician Group Pediatrics.
The plan also includes expansion of the cancer program and a comprehensive physician recruitment and retention strategy.
