LVHN gets OK for hospital in Mahoning
Lehigh Valley Health Network received approval Monday night to go ahead with plans for a hospital in Mahoning Township.
The $65 million project will include a 89,000-square-foot facility, to be called Lehigh Valley Hospital−Carbon.
It is planned for 35 acres of open farmland on the north side of Blakeslee Boulevard, catty-corner to the Walmart Superstore.
Initial plans call for a hospital that includes all private rooms for inpatient care and a medical office building.
See complete details in Tuesday’s Times News
Comments
LHVH might be horrible, but this is LVHN Mahoning!
It could be great, especially if your wisdom could influence it in the "Great" direction.
I just think having two new hospitals provides choice.
Choice is Great!
Come to think of it... America is Great by keeping the fusses few.
Keep America Great!
Let's keep America Great!
For those worried about Tax breaks- every Hospital files Non for Profit. It's an Accounting process. For those who have ever taken Accounting (which I doubt any have on this board) They give so much free care verses their income and they can be listed as non for profit. This counts as write off from what they accept from insurance verses what they actually charge your insurance.
By the way, I was at the Meeting. The Farmer of the 35 acres of Land they bought from was just paying $26 dollars a Year to the Borough in Taxes. Lehigh Valley will be paying over 40 thousand with transfer taxes. So do not state a fabrication when you were not at the meeting.
Common Sense still exists.
Hospital: Latin (hospes) for guest or stranger. Sounds like the story of the Good Samaritan.
Patient: patior (to suffer) (a place where suffering strangers come for care) How novel.
Today's a hospital, is a community institution where the sick or injured are given love, and medical care.
A community devoted to healing the whole patient, and not just the disease.
It's where the “community” is as central as the individual.
Many comments here indicate a less than a community feeling.
(Not Charitable)
Come on folks, have we become so divided, that we fight over hospitality?
God Help Us.
There's choice here!
Choice is Great.
Keeping America great!
Typical arrogant statement (Vote Hillary) who thinks he is better than others, except intelligent native's can see right through his insecurity and poor self esteem.
But don't let facts get in the way of the nonsense you wanna believe.