Certified registered nurse practitioner Albita S. Lasanta has joined St. Luke's Obstetrics and Gynecology Associates at 235 E. Brown St., East Stroudsburg.

At St. Luke's, she will be performing gynecological exams, providing contraception methods and options, and other women's services.Additionally, Dr. Karen Taverna-Miller will be seeing patients full time in the St. Luke's obstetrics and gynecology office in East Stroudsburg, and will no longer divide her time among offices.Other partners at the Monroe office include physicians: Elizabeth L. Dierking-McAtee, Christopher B. Gilbert, Christine Talmage, Ronald M. Kriner, Joseph C. Merola, Robert J. Sallash, and Adriaan J. Van Gaalen. The practice also has offices in Bethlehem and Wind Gap.