St. Luke's Carbon Campus expands Emergency Dept.

LEHIGHTON, CARBON CO, (WOLF) — St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Carbon Campus has completed an expansion that has added more beds to its Emergency Department to meet the high demand for quality emergency services from area residents.

The largest acute-care hospital in Carbon County now has a total of 30 rooms in its Emergency Department.

Joseph Pinto, Chief Operating Officer at St. Luke’s Carbon Campus:

The residents in this region can be confident that St. Luke's Carbon Campus has the capacity and resources necessary to provide the highest level of emergency care close to home. We are here for you when you need us most and when seconds matter.

Construction of the additional rooms began in January 2022.

Among the features of the state-of-the-art St. Luke’s Carbon Campus Emergency Department, each room has:

• Its own walls and doors, allowing for privacy
• Cardiac monitors
• A bed that can weigh patients for calculating prescription dosages
• A television to help patients pass the time while waiting for test results and treatment

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The expansion also has created new jobs for nursing and ancillary staff within the Emergency Department.