Healthcare On The Network

Healthcare On The Network

Streaming and integrated AV aid critical care at LVHN.

The Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) has been part of an ongoing trend in the healthcare industry, acquiring neighboring hospitals and physicians groups as it pursues scale to manage the relentless increases in healthcare costs. For instance, in 2016, it merged with Pocono Health System, which includes Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg PA. It’s not only one of the biggest organizations of its type in the US, but also the largest employer in Lehigh Valley PA, with a reported payroll of more than 14,000 workers across a network that includes four hospitals—in Salisbury Township PA, Allentown PA, Bethlehem PA and Hazleton PA—as well as a dozen health centers in five counties and numerous primary- and specialty-care physician practices in the region. Its practitioners log about two million patient interactions annually in practices, hospitals and dozens of other affiliated locations ... Read more

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