First LVHN neighborhood hospital features a 24/7 emergency room
Lehigh Valley Health Network’s (LVHN) first neighborhood hospital – Lehigh Valley Hospital–Macungie – officially opened its doors in March, providing more accessible health care in the region, complete with an around-the-clock emergency room.
The opening completes the new Macungie medical campus, where the Health Center at Macungie opened in December 2023. The site is located at 3369 State Route 100, Macungie, the location of a former Weis Markets.
Community leaders and LVHN officials, including Brian A. Nester, DO, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer, LVHN, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site several days before the doors formally opened to the public.
Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Macungie is the first of several neighborhood hospitals LVHN is seeking to build in the region. It’s a stand-alone, licensed, accredited acute care hospital. In addition to the full-service ER with 11 beds, it features an inpatient medical unit and ambulatory diagnostic services.
The medical unit will provide 10 inpatient beds for those requiring overnight hospital stays or additional care, observation, and testing. Someone arriving at LVH–Macungie with more acute medical problems or requiring surgery would be stabilized and transported to a larger LVHN hospital with increased care capability. Pediatric patients requiring inpatient care will routinely be transferred to Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital.
It fills a need by creating a medical campus and health care services not currently available in the region. Other in-house hospital services include lab and imaging. Imaging services, including X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan, and MRI, are also offered on an outpatient basis.
A second LVHN neighborhood hospital and health center is under construction in Gilbertsville, Montgomery County. LVH–Gilbertsville and the Health Center at Gilbertsville are projected to open later this year.
Health Center at Macungie
The Health Center at Macungie, a 30,000-square-foot, three-story building adjacent to LVH–Macungie, completes a healthcare hub in Macungie to provide a wide range of services to those working and living in the region. The health center includes pediatrics and family medicine, orthopedics and sports medicine, cardiology, Children’s ExpressCARE, a cardiac diagnostic center, outpatient adult rehabilitation services, X-ray services, and HNL Lab Medicine.
For more about the LVH–Macungie campus, visit LVHN.org/macungie
