Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #5 in
Pennsylvania
Recognized in
Northeastern Pennsylvania/Lehigh Valley
Recognized
in
Allentown, PA metro area
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA is ranked nationally in 3 adult specialties. It was also high-performing in 9 adult specialties, as shown below. Lehigh Valley Hospital is a 783-bed general medical and surgical facility with 43,495 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 12,163 annual inpatient and 11,687 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 109,092 visits. Lehigh Valley Hospital is a teaching hospital.
Adult Specialties
This hospital was among 148 facilities—roughly 3 percent of the 4,793 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.
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High-Performing |
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Patient Satisfaction
Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.
Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:
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78%
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| State Average |
67%
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| National Average |
70%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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3%
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5%
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| National Average |
5%
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See complete patient satisfaction survey results
Details
For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.
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Affiliated Hospitals or Services
Contact
Lehigh Valley Hospital
1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard
Allentown, PA 18105-6248
(610) 402–8000
