STAFF REPORT
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest is now home to Pennsylvania s largest and most advanced Emergency Department.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday at the hospital in Salisbury Township. The project includes an expanded adult emergency department, new observation unit and trauma facilities.
According to a press release, the next phase of construction currently underway includes an expanded children’s ER.
“Everything you need during an emergency is right here,” said David Burmeister, DO, Lehigh Valley Health Network Chair of Emergency and Hospital Medicine. “This plan has multiple patient-centered additions and efficiencies built into it, including major diagnostic testing, laboratory and trauma enhancements. Everything for providing acute care for our patients is available within this facility.”
WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - At Fellowship Community in Whitehall, part of taking care of its residents means updating families about COVID-19.
COVID frontline workers and seniors in congregate care facilities will be the first to get the vaccine once it s approved by the FDA.
But ahead of the approval has been a lot of planning. We re working with CVS pharmacy. They have been in contact with us, they will be receiving a vaccine and they will be administering the vaccine, said Mary Kay McMahon, Fellowship s CEO.
McMahon says 286 residents and 450 employees will soon have the option to get vaccinated.
CVS says it will administer the vaccine to 40,000 facilities nationwide, including Phoebe Home in Allentown.