Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest received national recognition for providing safe, high-quality care and was named a Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog Group, a national safety watchdog organization.

“Quality and compassionate care cannot happen without putting safety first,” says Matthew McCambridge, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality, Patient Safety and Acute Care Continuum Officer, LVHN. “Being one of the nation’s Top Teaching Hospitals shows LVH–Cedar Crest is committed to preventing harm. This allows our clinicians to provide the high level of safe care our patients expect and deserve.”

More than 2,100 hospitals were considered with 132 picked.