Access to Care
LVHHN, with support from the Pool Trust, has developed innovative models of health care and health promotion at satellite sites in partnership with important community based organizations. These efforts help to serve vulnerable populations who experience multiple barriers to care. These partnerships have shaped a model of care that is community responsive, culturally and linguistically appropriate, and welcoming to all members of the community.

Dr. Abby Letcher examines a patient at The Caring Place. Photo courtesy of Amico Studios.

Youth in Health Care

Santiago Rueda, DDS, speaks to students, (l to r) Latteshia White, Joshua Simms and Amanda Hernandez about careers and issues in health care.

Robert Lichstein, BS, RRT, Clinical Educator in Respiratory Care, talks with Christina Fleck, a Research Scholar in Organizational Development.

Students in the Emerging Health Professionals program attend college-level science classes at Penn State Lehigh Valley two days a week, and visit Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network three days a week.

Photos courtesy of Amico Studios

Telehealth Services

The Telehealth Services program will provide access to quality specialty services not generally available to many citizens residing in the rural portions of eastern Pennsylvania. Emergency psychiatric and maternal fetal medicine services will be the first to be implemented.

Joseph A. Tracy, Vice President of Telehealth Services, provides a brief update on the Telehealth Services Program for Lawrence P. Levitt, MD, Pool Trustee, and Mr. Edward F. Meehan, MPH, Executive Director of the Pool Health Care Trust.

Photo courtesy of Scott Dornblaser