Becker's Healthcare January 22, 2025
Following the Aug. 1 merger of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, the system has been working on integrating its 32 hospitals and more than 700 care sites.
“It has been a banner year,” Baligh Yehia, MD, president, Jefferson Health, said during a Jan. 21 Becker’s Healthcare Podcast. “The year ahead is to continue to focus on our mission of improving lives and delivering exceptional care, but also on how do we integrate the system and really make sure that we march as one.”
The combined system created one of the largest U.S. non-profit health systems, bringing together more than 65,000 employees from both organizations.
To ensure a smooth integration, Jefferson Health did an...