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The new St. Luke’s Jim Thorpe Primary Care is now open and accepting new patients.
Charles Wolfe, CRNP is the provider at the practice, located at 1122 North Street in Jim Thorpe. According to Wolfe, the focus of his practice is to give all patients the best possible care by getting to know the them, listening to their concerns and taking extra time to make sure they understand the diagnosis(es) and treatment plan(s).
“I offer services for patients starting at 5 years of age that include wellness visits; physicals; sick visits; minor urgent care such as suturing, sprains and joint injections; and chronic disease management for elevated blood pressure, diabetes, thyroid, cholesterol and more,” he says. “In order to provide up to date treatment options to my patients, I focus my continuing education on current and innovative ideas.”
Wolfe is an American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) board certified family nurse practitioner and has been in the health care field since 1998. He also practices at St. Luke’s Albrightsville Primary Care.
St. Luke’s Jim Thorpe Primary Care is open and welcoming new patients, by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, please call 272-639-5070.
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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 15,000 employees providing services at 11 hospitals and 300 outpatient sites. With annual net revenue greater than $2 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne 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 Lehigh Valley's first and only regional medical school campus. It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 34 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 263 residents and fellows. St. Luke's is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system with Medicare’s five- and four-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. St. Luke’s is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. In 2019, three of IBM Watson Health's 100 Top Hospitals were St. Luke's hospitals. St. Luke's University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from IBM Watson Health seven times total and five years in a row. St. Luke's 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.
