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Women’s Health Expert Joins St. Luke’s Women’s Care OB/GYN
November 27, 2018

Sharon Ravenelle, CRNP, women’s health nurse practitioner, recently joined St. Luke's Women’s Care OB/GYN fulltime at its office at 1251 S. Cedar Crest, Suite 109, Allentown.

“I appreciate getting to know or having a long-term relationship with my patients. That helps me provide them with high quality care,” she says.

Ravenelle has worked exclusively in women’s health for more than 32 years, both as an RN and a nurse practitioner, with experience in multiple subspecialties including reproductive endocrinology and infertility, gynecologic oncology, urogynecology, obstetrics and general gynecology. She completed her nursing degree at the University of Connecticut and her graduate studies as a women’s health nurse practitioner at Boston College.

Ravenelle’s office hours are Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. To make an appointment to see her, call 610-820-0300.

Media Contact:

Sam Kennedy, Corporate Communications Director, 484-526-4134, samuel.kennedy@sluhn.org

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 14,000 employees providing services at 10 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient sites.  With annual net revenue greater than $2 billion, the Network’s service area includes 10 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe and Schuylkill counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.  Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania.  In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first and only regional medical school campus.  It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 28 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 226 residents and fellows.  St. Luke’s is the only health care system in central-eastern Pennsylvania to earn Medicare’s five-star rating (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.  St. Luke’s has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from IBM Watson Health (formerly Truven Health Analytics) repeatedly – six times total and four years in a row including 2018.  It has also been cited by IBM Watson Health as a 50 Top Cardiovascular Program.  Utilizing the EPIC electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.  St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers.