St. Luke's Hospital

Furkan Shinaishin, MD is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Saleha Mahmud, DDS is a general practice dentist.
Colleen D. Taylor, MD is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Nicole Bendock, DO is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Steve Crellin, DO is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Gregory Smeriglio, DO is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Joseph O. Apata, MD is a hospital medicine doctor / hospitalist.
Manisha Kalaga, DO is a psychiatrist who practices psychiatry and student in an organized health care education/training program.
Padmini Veeraraghavan, MD is an anesthesiologist.
Tanner Folster, DO is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Avinash Kambhampati, DO is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Timarie Rayburg, DO is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Stephanie R. Straka, DO is a developmental - behavioral pediatrician who practices developmental - behavioral pediatrics, student in an organized health care education/training program, and pediatrics.
Virat R. Patel, MD is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Daniel Leonor, MD is a psychiatrist.
Robert E. Winkelspecht, OT-RL is an occupational therapist.
Sarah Schultz, PA-C is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Oliver Brukardt, PA-C is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Meghann Noonan, CRNP is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner.
Kaitlyn Klosz, PA-C is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Maria I. Braxmeier, PT is a physical therapist.
Michael Coleman is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Leah Stahler, PA-C is an internal medicine practitioner who practices internal medicine and primary care medicine.
Cody O. Backenstoe, CRNA is a nurse anesthesiologist.
Christian J. Laputka, PA is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Meghan E. Freed, PA-C is a physician assistant who practices physician assisting and primary care medicine.
Bernadette M. Hoffmann, CRNP is an adult health nurse practitioner.
Joel Pierre, PMHNP is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner.
Wilson G. Fuchi is a registered nurse.

Our Facilities

St. Luke's Hospital has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since April 14, 2021 and its NPI numbers are 1750961629 (certified on 04/14/2021) , 1639755366 (certified on 03/24/2021) , and 1366011413 (certified on 06/23/2021). St. Luke's Hospital is also known as St. Luke's Hospital Bethlehem (Ambulatory Surgical Clinic) and St. Luke's Hospital-Sacred Heart Campus (General Acute Care Hospital).

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To schedule an appointment, please call (484) 526-4000.

Psychiatric Hospital Unit

In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; (2) For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The unit must furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning.

Psychiatric Hospital Units in Allentown, PA