St. Luke’s doubles emergency department capacity with $8M expansion on one of its campuses

St. Luke’s Upper Bucks Campus has officially doubled the size of its emergency department with an $8 million expansion that will significantly increase the hospital’s ability to serve residents across Bucks and Montgomery counties.

The health system held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 1 for the new facility, which formally opened Oct. 2. The 11,000-square-foot expansion adds 12 new patient treatment bays, bringing the total number of individual emergency rooms to 28 and allowing providers to treat up to 40,000 patients annually.

“We are growing our ER capacity in response to our patients, who tell us they are pleased with the quality of care they receive here,” said Dennis Pfleiger, president of St. Luke’s Upper Bucks Campus.

The expansion addresses growing demand at the facility, w