Good Shepherd Health & Technology Center
In 2004, Good Shepherd representatives presented a plan to Allentown City Council. The plan was to create an integrated south Allentown campus, complete with a parking deck and a new outpatient center. The plan called for closing a portion of St. John Street and transforming it into healing gardens and greenspace. John Kinnaird, a resident at the Raker Center who, through the use of assistive technology, gained the ability to synthesize speech, spoke on behalf of Good Shepherd. The members of City Council were moved and the south Allentown campus transformation project began.
Two years later, in 2006, the campus transformation was completed. The anchor of the project, a state-of-the-art Health & Technology Center, consolidated all of the outpatient services formerly scattered throughout the campus. Numerous new services, including a lifestyle products store, a fitness center, an imaging center and more, were opened in the building. At Good Shepherd Independence Days on October 13, 2006, more than 600 members of the community came to Good Shepherd to dedicate the new campus.
At the time of the campus dedication, Sally Gammon, Good Shepherd’s President and CEO, said, “This beautiful campus is now making a positive difference – for our patients, residents, neighbors and staff, for the city of Allentown and beyond. This campus transformation resulted in a $41.7 million investment in Allentown, created about 130 new, well-paying jobs and will inject more than $8 million into the local economy annually.”
