Published November 26. 2016 09:01AM
St. Luke's Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township celebrated five years of service on Nov. 11. The $175 million construction project turned 500 acres of farmland into a hospital campus.
At the time it was built, the St. Luke's Anderson Campus was the first new, full-service, acute-care hospital built in Pennsylvania in 40 years, and has a medical office building dedicated to bone and joint, heart and vascular, women's health and primary care medicine.Since opening, the 250,000-square foot, 108-bed hospital added another CT scanner, diagnostic X-ray, 36 private patient rooms and four intensive care unit rooms, and expanded its Emergency Department.It also has a state-of-the-art cancer center with a fourth-floor addition that provides specialized care for oncology patients.In 2013, St. Luke's partnered with Rodale Institute to open the third hospital-based organic farm in the United States.It provides patients and employees with organic produce. In 2017, the hospital will open a new Ambulatory Surgery Center.