Since 1872, St. Luke's has been doing amazing things. From medical breakthroughs to national awards and accolades, St. Luke’s has been transforming medicine and reimagining care over the last 150 years as your local greater Lehigh Valley health care provider!
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As St. Luke’s College of Health Sciences enrolls for its inaugural May 2026 class, St. Luke’s will be educating and training over 3,400 students each day across Temple/St. Luke’s School of Medicine, St. Luke’s School of Nursing, Graduate Medical Education, and other academic programs — helping to strengthen the region’s health care workforce. That’s more than the number of students enrolled at Moravian University (2,800) and Lafayette College (2,700). This makes St. Luke’s the single largest source of medical and clinical education in the Lehigh Valley!
St. Luke’s has been recognized by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) as the #1 of the top three high-performing health systems in the United States for safety, quality and patient experience that included Houston Methodist and the Mayo Clinic. This is based on publicly available data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. Out of 4,791 hospitals and 135 health systems with six or more hospitals, St. Luke’s stood out as one of only three systems with multiple hospitals performing over 75% above the national average in safety and patient experience. In fact, if you closely examine HSS’s underlying data, St. Luke’s scored consistently higher than both Houston Methodist and the Mayo Clinic. That makes St. Luke’s – objectively and literally – #1 in the United States!
Together with our Community Health Workers, School Based staff, Mobile Health teams St. Luke’s Department of Community Health engaged over 10,000 students at more than 30 schools in over 20 districts.
St. Luke’s was the only health care system in PA to receive this award in 2023 and 2024. For 2025:
- St. Luke’s ranked 26th out of 2,251 organizations (all industries).
- St. Luke’s ranked 1st in the Hospitals and Health Systems category (41 organizations).
- St. Luke’s is the ONLY healthcare system in PA to receive this award in 2025.
- St. Luke’s ranked 1st in Pennsylvania among all industries.
St. Luke’s is the ONLY health system in the United States to be recognized for excellence for ALL OF THEM:
- Leapfrog Safety Grade – Straight A’s at all St. Luke’s acute care hospitals!
- Medicare & Medicaid Star Ratings – Five stars for quality!
- Fortune / PINC AI™ 100 Top Hospitals – 10 years in a row!
- CMS Patient Safety Indicator (PSI 90)- Top decile for patient safety!
This allows us to keep physicians in the Lehigh Valley who actually trained in the Lehigh Valley. Talk about home-grown talent!
What is Leapfrog? It is a national nonprofit group that promotes hospital safety. It reviews 30 measures of publicly available hospital data on infections, readmissions and other avoidable complications to assign letter grades to U.S. hospitals. Those that earn high marks have better systems in place to prevent medication errors, higher quality maternity care and lower infection rates. And St. Luke’s got straight A’s!
CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) awarded St. Luke’s hospitals its highest rating of 5 stars for patient safety. This is the federal government validating that our hospitals are among the very safest in the nation. What’s more, St. Luke’s was the ONLY health network in the Lehigh Valley to earn 5 stars.
CMS’s Patient Safety Indicator (PSI 90) refers to the rate of serious but potentially preventable complications, like falls, bed sores and other kinds of infections. St. Luke’s score is significantly better than the national average, and it is a key element in CMS’s 5-star ratings. Here’s the simple takeaway: If you want to receive the safest care when you go to the hospital, come to St. Luke’s!
The 100 Top Hospitals ranking for safety, quality and overall performance is the most prestigious honor for hospitals in the U.S. It is based entirely on objective data, untainted by the pay-for-play associated with dubious recognitions from other organizations such as U.S. News & World Report. St. Luke’s is the ONLY health network in the greater Lehigh Valley region to ever earn 100 Top Hospitals recognition!
Forbes Magazine lists St. Luke’s as a top 10 ranked employer in Pennsylvania and the #1 ranked health care employer in the state!
That’s more people than the population of Allentown (127,138), Bethlehem (79,453) and Easton (30,432) combined!
