Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill (lvh-s), through the combined efforts of its highly qualified medical staff, employees, and volunteers, offers a broad range of healthcare services to the residents of Schuylkill county, pa.inpatient healthcare services are provided in maternity, pediatric, acute and critical care, acute inpatient rehabilitation unit and behavioral health services. Lvh-s had over 5,570 acute admissions with 36,873 days of inpatient care. There were over 28,400 emergency department visits during the year. Lvh-s provides the only inpatient behavioral health services in the county. In fy23 we provided over 17,000 days of inpatient psychiatric care in our Hospital. This service to a vulnerable and often under or uninsured population continues to meet a critical community need. On average 103 patients per-day used our inpatient services. Additionally, we serve another vulnerable population with our drug and alcohol counseling center. This center has nearly 6,400 patient visits per year and is the only hospital-based program in Schuylkill county to provide medical assisted therapy (mat) to patients.lvh-s provides a wide array of diagnostic and treatment programs including a hospital-based home health department, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, occupational medicine, as well as ct, mri, mammography, ultrasound, dexa scan, nuclear medicine, and other imaging technologies. With a high incidence of diabetes and vascular disease, we serve our community with interventional radiology, wound care, and hyperbaric medicine. The industra-med program of the medical center provided occupational and industrial health services to over 200 of the region's employers. The outpatient departments of the Hospital saw over 93,540 patient visits.the medical center provides community outreach and educational programs throughout the year as well as screenings, events, and health fair participation. Through a partnership with a local area on aging group (diakon), lvh-s provides free flu shots to the vulnerable senior citizen population. With the challenges of covid lvh-s stood up a vaccination clinic that continues to run every thursday. This clinic provided thousands of vaccinations at no cost to our community. Additionally, we provide mobile vaccine clinics to serve the elderly/shut-in community members through a partnership with the Schuylkill county housing authority. Finally, through partnership with other organizations (schools and county fair) we provided vaccinations at locations more convenient to our community members.beginning in june of 2023, lvh-s welcomed a second class of 4 doctors to our rural family medicine program. We now support 8 full-time residents. The program is a three-year program providing residents training in all aspects of primary care. Through a community partnership with a local school district, an ems agency, and lvh-s we financially support a full-time (in school) emt program. Each graduate is eligible to sit for the national boards and become an emt immediately upon completion and graduation.on september 16, 2016, Lehigh Valley health network (lvhn) and Schuylkill health system merged, with lvhn becoming the parent organization of Schuylkill medical center - south jackson street dba Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill south jackson street; Schuylkill medical center - east norwegian street dba Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill east norwegian street; Schuylkill health system medical group, inc. dba Lehigh Valley physician group Schuylkill; Schuylkill rehabilitation center, inc. dba Lehigh Valley health network rehabilitation center - Schuylkill; and Schuylkill health system development corporation dba Lehigh Valley health network development corporation - schuylkill.in addition, Schuylkill medical center - south jackson street and Schuylkill medical center - east norwegian street merged effective june 1, 2018. Under the merger, Schuylkill medical center - south jackson street is the surviving organization. Effective upon merger, Schuylkill medical center - south jackson street changed its legal name to Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill.