Lewisburg, PA 17837 
Lifestyle: Health Care
Providing quality health care to the region is a top priority of numerous outstanding Central Pennsylvania health care systems. Offering state-of-the-art treatment facilities and outpatient care, the Central Susquehanna Valley health care systems are ready to serve you. Located within the area are numerous local hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home health systems, geriatric care, and regional medical centers.
Evangelical Community Hospital
Since three physicians took their dream for the area's first
health care facility from a vision to a reality in 1926,
Evangelical Community
Hospital has grown from a 12-bed facility to today's full-service
health care facility with a promising future.
"You feel at home at Evangelical Community Hospital," said a patient and friend of the hospital. "You are treated like a person, not a number, and the staff and physicians genuinely care about you."
The hospital has been able to grow to provide a large and diverse medical staff, to employ a well-qualified work-force, and to offer state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Today, many of the tests and procedures usually only offered at larger metropolitan medical centers, are conveniently offered at Evangelical.
Evangelical Community Hospital is licensed to accommodate 109 overnight patients, 27 residents in the Subacute Care Unit, and 16 newborn babies. With a medical staff of more than 150 physicians, assisted by more than 900 employees, Evangelical is equipped to meet the needs of our growing community.
Geisinger Medical Center
The Geisinger
Health System serves nearly four million residents
in the region and offers a vast array of services which range
from the Geisinger Medical Center teaching hospital in Danville,
to Marworth,
a drug and chemical dependency treatment center in Waverly, to the
Janet Weis Children's Hospital. Geisinger has
been rated one of the most cost-effective managed health care
providers in the country according to the New York Times. The
hospital has serviced northeast and central Pennsylvania for
more than 75 years.
The Geisinger Health System has made affordable health care a top priority and is currently the nation's largest rural health maintenance organization (HMO). Serving more than 200,000 people, the Geisinger Health Plan covers many areas of treatment including major surgeries, drug and alcohol treatment, physical therapy, and maternity care.
Susquehanna Health
Susquehanna
Health is the second largest health care
system in Northcentral Pennsylvania and includes the Divine
Providence Hospital, Muncy Valley Hospital, and Williamsport
Hospital and Medical Center. The Susquehanna Health System
combines a wide range of primary and tertiary care. These three
medical facilities teamed together in 1994 and now embrace 40
specialties.
Sunbury Community Hospital
Sunbury
Community Hospital is an acute care hospital, which
accepts all types of insurance and government medical payments.
Services in the facility range from emergency treatment to
intensive and coronary care and most surgical services.
