Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: Easton Hospital Expansion
Episode 31 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Easton Hospital was acquired by St. Luke's University Health Network.
Easton Hospital was acquired by St. Luke's University Health Network a year ago and will soon offer more medical services.
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Your Health Checkup is a local public television program presented by PBS39
Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: Easton Hospital Expansion
Episode 31 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Easton Hospital was acquired by St. Luke's University Health Network a year ago and will soon offer more medical services.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipCapital Cross and Olympus e proud supporters of your hh checkup, a Lehigh Valley hospital once in jeopardy f closing is now in the midsf a two year expansion proje.
It's keeping health care ce to where the people want hh care to be.
And that's here in the easn Community.
West Easton Hospital was acquired by St Luke's University Health Network a year ago and will soon offr more medical services.
Linda Grass's, the presidef St Luke's Eastern Campus.
She says St Luke's is inveg about 15 million to expand existing services as well s offer new ones primary sers that are going to be openin the summer through the next year to year and a half wie cardiology and having a cardiology diagnostic centr and orthopedic center with orthopedic surgeons here ae hospital.
And probably the one thingt you'll hear the most aboutn the community is an adolest behavioral health unit.
The inpatient unit will see teens 12 to 17 years old.
We've seen a dramatic incre in behavioral health paties over the last year with our pediatric population.
And at times these pediatrc patients will wait in our emergency department for a facility to accept them for over a week.
The Vice President of Medil affairs, Dr Joseph Fargo, s he's looking forward, are growing his team as well ao get more expansion.
We see more physicians, moe physicians being more pati.
The project is expected toe completed by the end of 20o four PBS39.
I'm Brittany Sweeney your health checkup is brought o you by capital Blue Cross.
More information at Capital Blue Medicare .com and Oly, a medical technology compay dedicated excellence and headquartered in the Lehigh Valley for more informatio, Olympus

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