To enhance their commitment to caring for children throughout the Lehigh Valley, officials at Children's Hospital at Lehigh Valley Hospital recently introduced the J.B. and Kathleen Reilly Children's Surgery Center.

The new center, which began caring for patients on April 4, is located on the third floor of the 1210 building on the LVH - Cedar Crest campus in Salisbury Township.The approximately 15,000-square-foot facility features pediatric surgeons who use minimally invasive, state-of-the-art technology for general pediatric surgeries, including surgical urology, ear nose and throat, plastic surgery and dental surgery among other procedures, all on an outpatient basis.The center is made possible in part to the generosity of J.B. Reilly, founder and CEO of City Center Lehigh Valley, and his wife, Kathleen.The Children's Surgery Center is the latest addition to Children's Hospital at LVH, which will celebrate its fourth anniversary next month. The Children's Hospital was the final goal in the "children's care checklist" initially created by the late Forrest Moyer, known as the father of Lehigh Valley pediatrics.Moyer was chief of pediatrics at what was then called The Allentown Hospital (now LVH - 17th Street) from 1953 to 1975. In the 1950s, he spearheaded a community effort to immunize the children of the Lehigh Valley against polio. In the 1970s, he created the first neonatal intensive care unit in the region, which at the time was housed at The Allentown Hospital."I know somewhere Dr. Moyer is smiling today, proud of our celebrating another special day for the children of our community," said Brian Nester,president and chief executive officer at Lehigh Valley Health Network.