Lehigh Valley Hospital: When It Matters Most
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Children's Care

It's Your Child

Ensuring your child lives a happy, healthy life is one of your most important responsibilities, and ours as well. Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network offers a full spectrum of pediatric specialists—including the area’s only pediatric surgeons—to ensure that you won’t have to travel far when your child is sick. We also are home to the area’s only Burn Center, Level I Trauma Center with pediatric qualifications and highest level neonatal intensive care unit for premature babies.

Specialty Care for Children

Learn how our experienced pediatric team cares for your child from birth through teenage years.

Why Choose Us

Your child’s health is our priority. We offer the most comprehensive care for children in the Lehigh Valley—from birth through teenage years. With the area’s only pediatric surgeons, we can treat childhood conditions with surgery when necessary. Our Pediatric Specialty Center provides children a warm, caring environment in which to receive the best care.

What Sets Us Apart
If your child needs special care, you have access to specialists not found anywhere else in the area. More >>

Meet Our Specialists
We have the area’s only pediatric surgeons, pediatric anesthesiologist, pediatric audiologist and radiologists—all specially educated to care for children. More >>

Area’s Only Pediatric Surgeons
If your child needs surgery, you don’t have to travel far from home. More >>

Critical Care for Children
Our pediatric intensive care unit and trauma center offers the highest level of care in the area. More >>

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Our NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) cares for premature and critically ill infants. More >>

Awards and Accreditations
Learn about the awards and accreditations that make our quality care stand out. More >>

The Pediatric Specialty Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg
If your child needs special care, he may visit the Pediatric Specialty Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem. Learn more about it. More >>

Quality Results
See how our care compares to other hospitals in Pennsylvania and nationwide. More >>

Patient Success Stories
Read the stories of children who will forever be in our caregivers’ hearts. They continue to live happy, healthy lives because of the care they received here. More >>

Research
Learn about the latest research in children’s care and whether your child could be a participant in a research study. More >>

Resources For You

We recognize that your child needs care and support above and beyond hospital stays and doctors’ visits. Our classes, support groups and other programs offer additional resources and assistance for your child’s health and help connect you and your child with others experiencing similar challenges and triumphs.

Classes
Learn more about the classes we offer children to keep them healthy. More >>

Support Groups
We offer many support groups to help you and you child connect with others experiencing similar challenges and triumphs. More >>

Pediatric Health Library
Use this A-Z list to learn about childhood diseases and conditions and how they could be diagnosed and treated. More >>

About Your Visit

We want to make your visit to the hospital easy and stress free. Find maps and directions to your child’s appointment and when you can visit your child in the hospital.

Maps and Locations
Get maps to easily navigate our three hospital campuses and health centers. More >>

Visiting Your Child
You can be with your child anytime, day or night. More >>

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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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