The St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network recently acquired over 180 acres in Bethlehem, PA with the long term vision of creating a state-of-the-art healthcare campus.

The new campus has been master planned to become a regional healthcare village that can support a full continuum of healthcare services including; general inpatient care, specialty inpatient care, trauma services, maternal/child services, long term care, outpatient services, healthcare educational facilities, alternative medicine, medical office buildings, medical research facilities, healthcare related retail, and wellness facilities.

The centerpiece of the new healthcare village will be the new St. Luke's Hospital which will take advantage of views to the Lehigh River valley and its wooded edges. The site master plan incorporates "new urbanism" planning concepts along with a central community space that utilizes a pond and passive open space to provide a focal point around which the hospital and other uses are oriented.

As the centerpiece and future flagship for the healthcare system the new St. Luke's Hospital will improve the hospital experience on many levels including the healing environment created by the campus and building, but also from the quality of care and the service extended to each patient and their families. To help meet the service and quality goals, St. Luke's has contracted with General Electric to develop the first "all digital acute-care hospital. " This project will also become GE's flagship project, highlighting true "state of the art" advances in digital technology products and applications and their total integration into a healthcare environment.

The first phase of the campus development will include the construction of a new 148 bed acute care hospital designed to expand over time to 600 beds. The new facility will be ten stories tall with an outpatient/public concourse that has provisions to connect to a future medical office park.