St. Luke's University Health Network has named Jill D'Alessandro vice president of patient care services of St. Luke's Monroe Hospital, which is scheduled to open in Fall 2016.

D'Alessandro will join recently appointed President Donald Seiple in leading the new campus, the seventh hospital of St. Luke's University Health Network.A graduate of East Stroudsburg University, D'Alessandro has worked at St. Luke's University Hospital in Bethlehem since 2004, when she enrolled in St. Luke's School of Nursing to pursue her passion of helping others through a career in nursing. She began as a patient care assistant and after graduating, as a staff nurse, clinical coordinator and finally, patient care manager.