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Quakertown, PA (3/16/2017) – Once again, readers of Penny Power have voted St. Luke’s Quakertown Campus as the area’s “Best Hospital,” a designation of which St. Luke’s University Health Network has been proud since 2014.

Additionally, as part of the publication’s 2017 Readers Choice initiative, St. Luke’s Quakertown was voted to have the best Physical Therapy in the area for a second straight year.
Votes are solicited from readers in over 50 categories during the month of January.

“This designation reinforces that all of the talented professionals at St. Luke’s Quakertown Hospital are fulfilling our mission of providing quality healthcare to our community,” Ed Nawrocki, President of St. Luke’s Quakertown Campus, said.

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About St. Luke's Quakertown Campus

The fully accredited, not-for-profit, 62-bed hospital located in Quakertown, is accredited by the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). St. Luke’s Quakertown Campus provides a wide variety of health care services. The hospital is affiliated with the nationally recognized St. Luke¹s University Health Network and currently provides patients with access to more than 275 physicians across 40 specialties. Additionally, inpatient behavioral health services and emergency and transport services are available on-site.

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated and nationally recognized network providing services at seven hospitals and more than 270 outpatient sites. The network’s service area includes Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery, Berks and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania and in Warren County in New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing health education, St. Luke’s operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing and 22 graduate medical educational programs and is considered a major teaching hospital, the only one in the region. In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first Medical School. Repeatedly, including 2016, St. Luke’s has earned Truven’s 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation as well as 50 Top Cardiovascular program in addition to other honors for clinical excellence. St. Luke’s is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of St. Luke’s information technology applications such as electronic medical records, telehealth, online scheduling and pricing information. St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers in comparison to major teaching hospitals and other health systems.