St. Luke's opens $79M wing in Milford. Here's what it means to patients in Upper Bucks County
With the addition of a new wing to its campus in Milford, St. Luke's University Health Network has nearly doubled its footprint in Upper Bucks County while expanding neonatal and cancer care services.
The new St. Luke's wing details
St. Luke's opens the new wing on Wednesday, March 1. The three-story, $79 million project adds more than 117,275 square feet to the campus at Route 663 and Portzer Road.
Construction began in the fall of 2021.
The first floor will also house an expanded infusion suite with 16 chairs and will also contain a suite of oncology practices. This will allow patients to access advanced radiation therapy services, instead of traveling to other health network sites or go to out-of-network for radiation services.
The second floor will house five labor and delivery rooms, 12 postpartum rooms, four triage rooms, six NICU beds, and two C-section suites.
“The addition of the Women & Babies Pavilion allows patients who choose St. Luke’s as their OB/GYN to deliver in their community at a state-of-the-art facility with private, spacious rooms, and, if needed a Level II NICU,” said Nicole Nye, and administrator at St. Luke’s OB/GYN. "The opening ... allows us to expand OB/GYN services to Bucks and Montgomery counties and surrounding areas that will enhance their quality of care."
The third floor is set aside to accommodate future growth, and is designed to accommodate 36 medical/surgical beds.
The wing will employ roughly 100 new workers.
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"We are excited to enhance close-to-home access and bring our nationally recognized quality care to the growing population of this region and especially to the aging and child-bearing age segments,” said Dennis Pfleiger, president of the Upper Bucks and Quakertown campuses. "The demand is only expected to rise as the region continues to grow.
"We are adding this building in response to increasing needs of our population, both the aging and child-bearing segments."
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About St. Luke's University Health Network
St. Luke's University Health Network operates 14 campuses and more than 300 sites in and around Bucks County and the Lehigh Valley, including locations in Bethlehem, where St. Luke's is headquartered, and Quakertown.
The original charter established St. Luke's as a hospital on March 29, 1872, and St. Luke's accepted its first patient on October 17, 1873. It is renown for being the nation’s oldest operating nursing school.
This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: St. Luke's opens wing for women and infants center, cancer care in Milford
