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Officials celebrate Cedarbrook center

Published September 24. 2025 10:25AM
by LOU WHEELAND Special to The Press

Lehigh County officials, Cedarbrook administration and employees, guests and media attended a final beam signing Sept. 12 of celebrating the construction of the new Cedarbrook Senior Care and Rehabilitation Center at 350 S. Cedarbrook Road, South Whitehall.

The new facility will add 240 beds, which will replace all the beds in the current 1920s-era B and C wings and a few in the D wing. There are a total of 678 beds across the Cedarbrook facilities — 90% of which are Medicare recipients.

The new addition will allow for, at most, two residents per room, whereas the current facility has four per room.

Cedarbrook was founded in 1844 to provide care for Lehigh County residents.

Attending dignitaries were asked to sign the final steel beam that would be installed a few days after the ceremony.

Attendees included Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong; Rick Molchany, county director of general services; Jason Cumello, Cedarbrook administrator; Geoff Brace, Lehigh County Board of Commissioners chair; Commissioners Sheila Alvarado, Ron Beitler and Dan Hartzell; and state Rep. Milou Mackenzie, R-131st.

Also on hand were officers of the Cedarbrook resident council: Jean Larison, president; Karen Snyder, secretary; and Marilyn Berger, vice president.

PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELANDAmong those attending the Sept. 12 signing of the final steel beam to be erected on the new Cedarbrook Senior Center construction at the Cedarbrook Senior Care and Rehabilitation Center, South Whitehall, are Jill Ferrgame, Lehigh Valley Health Network director; Larry Goebel, St. Luke’s facilities director; Lehigh County Commissioner Ron Beitler; Executive Phillips Armstrong; Commissioners Dan Hartzell and Sheila Alvarado; Jason Cumello, Cedarbrook administrator; Commissioner Geoff Brace; and Rick Molchany, Lehigh County director of general services.
Officers of Cedarbrook Resident Council Jean Larison, president; Karen Snyder, secretary; and Marilyn Berger, vice president, are joined by Brace, Beitler, Hartzell and Alvarado at the event.
Lehigh County Director of General Services Rick Molchany introduces Larison, who read a poem about life at Cedarbrook.
Alvarado adds her signature to the final steel beam to be erected on the new Cedarbrook Senior Center.
Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong addresses attendees during the event.
State Rep. Milou Mackenzie, R-131st, shares some thoughts with the crowd.