St. Luke’s University Health Network

Plastic and Reconstructive Survey staff update

St. Luke’spPlastic & reconstructive surgeons Lino Miele, M.D., who joined the practice in 2015, and Juan Carlos Martinez, M.D., who joined in September, are trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Also microsurgery experts, they perform deep inferior epigastric artery perforator breast reconstruction.

This technique rebuilds the breast lost to mastectomy by using tissue taken from another part of the patient’s body, usually the abdomen. No muscle is moved or repositioned.

Dr. Martinez completed a microsurgery fellowship at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Miele was trained in DIEP at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and completed National Institutes of Health sponsored postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

St. Luke’s earns Quality Score from Medicare & Medicaid

St. Luke’s Anderson, Miners and Warren campuses have received the highest quality rating from the annual quality and safety hospital review conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. These campuses were the only hospitals in the region to receive this rating.

The results were based on 57 quality measures collected from 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals. The quality measures spanned over categories including mortality, safety of care, readmission, infection, complication rates, patient experience, effectiveness and timeliness of care and efficient use of medical imaging.

Only 9 percent of hospitals in the country were given the five star achievement, with the majority of hospitals receiving three stars.

SLUHN given Teaching Hospital honor

St. Luke’s University Health Network has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals in the Major Teaching Hospital category by IBM Watson HealthTM, formerly Truven Health Analytics. This is the fourth year in a row and the sixth time overall that St. Luke’s has been given this honor.

This recognition is one of the health industry’s most prestigious honors. Unlike many other health care awards, it is based entirely on an independent, scientific review of objective data from government and other publicly available sources.

Lehigh Valley Health Network

Partnership improves healthcare outcomes

Medtronic Medical Technology and Lehigh Valley Health Network announced Feb. 28 an affiliation aimed at developing innovative, sustainable, and integrated value-based solutions to improve healthcare outcomes for the patients served by LVHN.

The partnership will create programs that span more than 70 major medical conditions while reducing the costs of care. Initial programs include cardiovascular disease, stroke, and lung cancer, with additional areas to be identified as the affiliation progresses.