Imagine a hospital where specialized care keeps you close to home.

The Highest Level Trauma Center

At Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, we became an accredited Level 3 Trauma Center in 2008. We are the only Level 3 Trauma Center in the state of Pennsylvania. Level 3 Trauma Centers are really designed to take care of the moderately and severely injured patient. We see over 1,200 patients per year. Other health systems, other hospitals, have tried to replicate what we have done and they have been unsuccessful because the resources, the manpower and the commitment to that level of care for patients is a very high standard. Our trauma team consists of 6 fellowship-trained trauma surgeons. We also provide critical care services. Along with general surgery, we have cardio-thoracic surgeons on staff, orthopedic surgeons on call 24 hours a day. We also have anesthesiologists in-house and available for whatever comes through the door. Patients deserve the care at a full-service, comprehensive hospital that has everything available to them in the community. At Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, the goal here is not to transfer patients out of Monroe County so that family members have to drive, have to be inconvenienced, and are apart from their loved ones. We keep patients in our community.

Specialty Services in Your Backyard

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono is one of the safest hospitals in the United States. We strive to make each patient visit a safe one, to make sure that they have excellent outcomes, and that the best available care is given to them. Full-service means that a hospital system can take care of an entire family and their needs. We have loads of different programs here that are not available in any other institution in Monroe County. We have a Spine Center, we have the Orthopedic Joint Center, and at Monroe County, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono is the only facility with a full-service cardiac program, which includes coronary bypass grafting and also valve replacements. We do vascular surgery here, we have cardiac catheterization procedures and EPS studies. We have the Trauma Center, which is a Level 3 Trauma Center, the only Trauma Center in Monroe County. We have our Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit. In Monroe County, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono is the only place to have children, and in fact, my two daughters were born here. We have pediatric in-patient here, which they don’t anywhere else. It’s very important for families to be close to each other and not have to travel for that care. Not a day goes by that I don’t hear a compliment about the staff in the Cancer Center taking care of one of our sick patients who has cancer or being diagnosed with cancer. One of the best linear accelerators that’s available in the United States is across the street. It’s very important to us here that we give our patients as much care close to home as possible, and having that center with the latest technology enables us to do that. We offer services that no other place in our area can offer, and it’s close to home so that you don’t have to travel out of the area to get the care that you need for yourself or your family.

The Only Neonatal NICU & Birthing Center

This is baby Carmelo and today is his birthday. He’s one of a thousand babies that will be born this year here at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono. And this is the only hospital with labor and delivery services here in Monroe County. If it wasn’t for this hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, mothers would have to drive 45 miles to deliver their baby. I can tell you, they just may not make it. It really makes a difference when your doctor speaks your language. Our OB-GYN physicians speak many languages. We speak Arabic, Hindi, Filipino, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Mandarin, and of course, Spanish. Deciding where to deliver is an important decision. At Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, we have a Level 3 NICU. Should anybody need additional assistance with premature delivery, any type of early delivery, we always have someone at the ready. That includes specialized care with neonatologists and neonatal nurses. When you choose to deliver here at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, you’re gonna get quality care. It is the best care in Monroe County.

The Only Full-Service Heart Care Center

A heart attack is one of the most scary times in a person’s life. Time is very important. There’s a saying, “Time is muscle.” Every moment that you waste, you’re losing heart muscle, so the faster we can get you in and treated appropriately, the better. If you need a diagnostic cardiac catheterization, or a stent in a coronary artery, we’re the only hospital in Monroe County that provides full-service heart care. A full-service hearth program is a team. We have four interventional cardiologists, three heart surgeons, we have two vascular surgeons and electrophysiologists. We have two dedicated cardiac cath labs and a dedicated electrophysiology lab to take care of patients anytime, day or night. We have advanced vascular care, and we have cardiac surgeons who can perform all forms of cardiac surgery: bypass surgery, valve surgery, complex aneurysm surgery. If you go to another hospital in Monroe County, you will not have a full-service heart program. If you want to see a heart surgeon there, you’ve got to travel 45 miles south. Having a heart problem is very serious and very scary. Not only for the patient, but for their family. The community is being asked to go to a hospital that does low-risk heart attacks. No one knows if they are having a low-risk heart attack when it’s happening. It’s not always obvious upon admission to a hospital. If you are here at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, all your care—cardiology and cardiac surgery—can be done right here. Just last year alone, we did over 1,000 cardiac catheterizations and 500 EP procedures at Lehigh Valley-Pocono. These are 1,500 patients that got world-class care close to home. The patients in this community deserve to have high-quality care here. Lehigh Valley Hospital recognized that, and we wish to bring the highest level of care right here at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono.