Lehigh Valley Health Network acquires world-class medical research and education facility - lehighvalleylive.com

The Lehigh Valley Health Network has acquired a word-class anatomical probe and acquisition installation successful an effort to boost its aesculapian schoolhouse program.

The wellness web announced past week the acquisition of Venel Institute Medical Education and Research Center, 261 Brodhead Road, successful Hanover Township, Northampton County. The installation includes a 3,000-square-foot surgical operating bedewed laboratory with 16 stations; assorted simulated operating rooms; a boardroom; 50-seat auditorium; locker rooms and a café, according to its website.

Dr. Robert Barraco, a trauma surgeon and the wellness network’s main world officer, said successful a quality merchandise astir the acquisition: “continuous betterment means continued excellence.”

“... adding the Venel Institute surely fits with that mindset,” helium said.

The wellness web expects Venel to complement its caller state-of-the-art Center for Healthcare Education successful Center Valley, slated to unfastened adjacent period successful Upper Saucon Township. Together, the 2 facilities volition signifier a caller determination and nationalist wellness attraction acquisition hub, successful which Barraco said volition let the wellness web to tailor acquisition contented and method to circumstantial groups and their idiosyncratic needs

“It volition let america to analyse the acquisition request and capable it successful the astir due mode possible,” helium said.

Along with the Center for Healthcare Education, Venel besides could service arsenic a imaginable grooming crushed and acquisition installation for LVHN’s institutes, including Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute; Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute; and the Lehigh Valley Institute for Surgical Excellence.

The programme is tally successful concern with Morsani College of Medicine astatine the University of South Florida successful Tampa. Under the Scholarly Excellence, Leadership Experiences and Collaborative Training (SELECT) aesculapian schoolhouse program, students walk 2 years astatine USF and their last 2 years astatine LVHN.

In the future, wellness web representatives said the acquisition of Venel besides mightiness pb to an enlargement of anatomical subject programs for determination precocious schools. It’s a mode the wellness web encourages science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, they said.

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Pamela Sroka-Holzmann whitethorn beryllium reached astatine pholzmann@lehighvalleylive.com.