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A new health care experience is coming to
your community. By late 2011, St. Luke’s
Riverside, located at Freemansburg Avenue
and Route 33 in Bethlehem Township, will
open its doors to the first patients.
St. Luke’s Riverside will provide convenient
access to a family-friendly emergency
department, leading-edge medicine, new
operating rooms, a cancer center and medical
office building, and some of the world’s most
advanced health care technologies in healing
and environmentally-sensitive facilities.
"Construction of St. Luke's Riverside will
be complete later this year. This location
will offer a full range of health care services
and is easily accessible from Route 33,
Freemansburg Avenue and I-78."
— Anita Kingsbauer
Executive Director, Riverside Campus
Built for a better experience
St. Luke’s Riverside is being designed to
provide safe, efficient, patient-centered
and affordable health care in a natural,
aesthetically-pleasing environment.
Constructed with natural materials such
as brick and stone, its large windows will
provide abundant daylight and showcase
the beautiful landscape that surrounds
the campus.
While the campus will have visual appeal,
the most important feature will be the
human experience. St. Luke’s Riverside is
being thoughtfully planned to provide a
better experience and unmatched customer
service for patients and visitors, and the
highest quality and safest care in a setting
that enlivens the senses.
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St. Luke’s Hospital & Health Network
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Your home is near a new health campus
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What you can expect…
• Convenient location – close proximity to Route 33 and
I-78 makes this new health campus highly accessible to
your community.
• Ample parking available, with more than 1,000 spaces at
various lots surrounding the facility.
• Guest services personnel in the hospital to assist
patients and families.
• A design that provides a convenient and efficient
environment.
• Patient-focused hiring practices; a customer-service
philosophy embodied by its employees.
• Spacious private hospital rooms to accommodate
overnight stays for a family member.
• Patient-floor layouts that have been efficiently designed
to increase patient/staff communication.
• Communication desks located outside patient rooms,
placing staff closer to the patient.
• Handheld communication devices used by staff to
enhance communication for the benefit of patients.
• Clinical electronic medical record with medication safety
systems and processes that improve care coordination
and patient safety.
• Visibility windows in patient rooms to allow for
observation without disturbing sleep.
• Individualized controls in patient rooms to adjust
lighting and temperature so patients can customize their
environment.
• Advanced technologies from GE Health Care including
all-digital X-ray, wide-bore MRI and high-definition
low-dose CT to detect and diagnose disease with less
radiation exposure to patients.
• State-of-the-art operating and imaging rooms designed
to accommodate new and emerging technologies.
This is only the beginning. St. Luke’s
Riverside is poised for future growth to meet
your health care needs well into the future.
Coming soon…
Quality Emergency Care
At St. Luke’s Riverside Hospital
ClosER quality care for life’s
emergencies
Quality emergency care will soon be
closer to home when the Emergency
Department at St. Luke’s Riverside
Hospital opens to the community later
this year. The Emergency Department
at St. Luke’s Riverside Hospital will
be family-centered and have boardcertified doctors and trained emergency
room nurses to manage serious medical
conditions such as abdominal pain,
shortness of breath, broken bones,
lacerations, high fevers and other
conditions that require immediate care.
The Emergency Department at St. Luke’s
Riverside Hospital will feature two triage
bays for rapid assessment of emergencies
and 14 exam and treatment rooms, four
of which will be dedicated as Fast Track
rooms for minor illnesses and injuries.
To provide optimal care for critically-ill
patients, St. Luke’s Riverside Hospital
will have an eight-bed Intensive Care
Unit with advanced monitoring
equipment. The unit will be staffed by
critical care nurses for patients with
more serious health concerns.
BettER imaging with less
radiation….
State-of-the-art imaging technologies
from GE Healthcare will be available
in the Radiology Department, adjacent
to the Emergency Department. These
advanced systems from GE Healthcare
offer significant benefits, including highdefinition images and reduced radiation
exposure to the patient. Emergency
radiology services will be available
round-the-clock. St. Luke’s staff includes
board-certified and fellowship-trained
radiologists and sub-specialty registered
technologists.
What you can expect…
• All-digital X-ray systems from GE
Healthcare to expedite diagnosis, care
and treatment.
• High-definition, low-dose CT scanner
that generates high resolution images
and improves patient care by reducing
radiation exposure by up to 50
percent compared to other high-end
CT systems. This new system is also
capable of seeing internal structures in
the human body as small as a grain of
sand in a single rotation.
• Wide-bore MRI to offer
uncompromised image quality and
comfort for virtually all patients, even
larger patients, during a scan.
• Lower-dose radiography and
fluoroscopy to confidently diagnose
conditions of the chest, spine, bones,
joints, soft tissue, pelvic structures and
digestive and urinary tracts.
The New Medical Director of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Rebecca Pequeno
Many people already know St. Luke’s
Riverside’s new Medical Director of
Emergency Medicine, Dr. Rebecca
Pequeno. A Bethlehem native, she was
born at St. Luke’s Hospital-Bethlehem
Campus, raised in the area and attended
local schools. She’s ready to step into
her role at St. Luke’s Riverside in the
Emergency Department when it opens
later this year.
Dr. Pequeno has always had an inherent
love of emergency medicine and a desire
to serve on the front lines as a first
responder. She graduated from
Freedom High School. As a teen, she
trained at Northampton Community
College in Bethlehem to become an
emergency medical technician (EMT)
and volunteered for Bethlehem
Township Volunteer Fire Company in
emergency services.
She went on to earn her undergraduate
degree from Juniata College in
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and then
attended Temple University School of
Medicine in Philadelphia, where
she earned her medical degree.
Dr. Pequeno always knew she wanted to
come back to the region she calls home.
After medical school, she performed
her residency in Emergency Medicine at
St. Luke’s, serving as Chief Resident in
her third year. She has been a physician
in the Emergency Department in this
community for several years now, having
served at St. Luke’s Hospital-Bethlehem
Campus for the past three.
“I meet new people every day and enjoy
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The new medical director of emergency medicine
Dr. Rebecca Pequeno
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spending time with patients, their family
members and friends,” says Dr. Pequeno.
“I like knowing that I make a difference
in the lives of those who unexpectedly
find themselves in the Emergency
Department.”
Dr. Pequeno also serves as the medical
director for several local ambulance
services, including Suburban EMS which
includes four ambulance stations in
Northampton and Monroe counties,
the Hanover Township Volunteer Fire
Company EMS, Hecktown Volunteer
Ambulance Corps and Bath EMS. She
also serves as medical director for the
Northampton Community College EMT
course.
St. Luke’s Community Education
Lifestyles and Cancer:
More Than a Sore Throat – When to Be Concerned
Throat cancer is more common among people who smoke and drink
alcohol; it may also be associated with the Human Papillomavirus,
or HPV. Its symptoms can mimic that of the common cold, including
cough, sore throat and hoarseness.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
6 to 7 pm
Courtyard® by Marriott – Bethlehem
Located at 2220 Emrick Blvd., Bethlehem
(Access Emrick Blvd. from Freemansburg Avenue,
directly across from St. Luke’s Riverside)
Join Dr. David Yen, ENT otolaryngologist and head and
neck surgeon, when he discusses throat cancer, its causes
and symptoms. Also, learn about innovative treatment
options available today.
Presented by David M. Yen, MD
Call 1-866-STLUKES or email [email protected] to register today.
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