Ground Broken for Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Tannersville

Ground has officially been broken for Lehigh Valley Health Network’s third neighborhood hospital.

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) and community leaders gathered Friday afternoon (11/1) for a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction of Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Tannersville, expected to open in winter 2026. 

The hospital is planned for a new health care campus on the site of the former Hunter Pocono Peterbilt truck dealership on Golden Slipper Road, close to major roads including Interstate 80 and Routes 33 and 611. It will be located less than 10 miles from LVH–Pocono, creating a health care hub in Monroe County.

“We’re here to start writing a new chapter for LVHN in the Pocono region and break ground on a new style of health care campus to bring leading-edge medical care closer to those who live and work here,” Michael Rossi, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for LVHN, told attendees.

“LVHN is already a familiar name here in the Poconos when it comes to your health care. Over the years, we’ve continually added health care options – facilities, physician practices and more – so getting the care you want and need is accessible and convenient,” says Dr. Rossi. “And of course, the top hospital in this area – Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono, ties it all together. Whatever type of care you need, caring, world-class clinicians are behind every LVHN door and now Jefferson as well.”

LVHN’s two existing neighborhood hospitals – LVH–Macungie and LVH–Gilbertsville – are thriving and similar results are expected for LVH–Tannersville, to be located on Golden Slipper Road along Interstate 80 in Pocono Township. Another health services building, the Health Center at Tannersville, will be built on the same site as the neighborhood hospital and offer services including physician practices, adult rehabilitation, cardiology and more.

Neighborhood hospitals are licensed and accredited acute care facilities, with a full-service emergency room. They are open 24 hours a day, year-round. LVH–Tannersville, like its counterparts, will feature 11 ER beds and 10 inpatient beds for those requiring overnight stays or additional monitoring and testing.

Anyone requiring more acute care can be stabilized and taken to a larger LVHN hospital with increased capability. In LVH–Tannersville’s case, that would be LVH–Pocono.

“We can treat any emergency that walks through that door,” says David Burmeister, President of Lehigh Valley Physician Group (LVPG), Chair of the Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine, and Chief Medical Executive of the Acute Care Service Line at LVHN.

Local businessman Andy Forte, chairman of the LVH–Pocono Board of Directors and vice chairman of the board of directors at LVH–Dickson City, told the audience that Monroe County’s population has ballooned over recent decades and said “excellent, compassionate, leading-edge health care” is key to keeping a population thriving.

“That’s what you get with Lehigh Valley Health Network,” says Forte. “I live in Stroud Township and I can tell you Lehigh Valley is a critical part of the fabric of Monroe County and the greater Poconos.”

Holly Badali, President, Neighborhood Hospitals, LVHN, says everyone at LVHN is committed to making the patient experience exceptional. “We deliver on that promise every time and you should expect no less,” she says.