St Luke's Riverside Women's Healthcare

05/01/2026

🌸 April Baby Stats at Riverside 🌸

April was another busy and beautiful month welcoming new life into the Riverside family!

👶 76 babies born
💗 31 girls
💙 45 boys — including a very special welcome to Dr. DeFruscio’s baby boy.

✨Our grand total now stands at an incredible:
🥳 5,305 Riverside babies
💗 2,612 girls | 💙 2,693 boys

🤍While we celebrate new beginnings, we also hold space in our hearts for the babies gone too soon. We honor them and the families who love them every day. 🤍

🎂 We also enjoyed celebrating Kim, Emily, and Rachelle’s birthdays in the office this month — always grateful for the amazing team that makes Riverside so special.💖

☀️With sunshine arriving and summer just around the corner, we want to thank all of you for your continued support, kindness, and patience as we navigate ongoing schedule changes. Your understanding truly means everything to us. 🥰

📸 We’d love to see your April babies!
Drop your photos in the comments so we can celebrate together!

05/01/2026

Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Group - St Luke’s Chapter

Next Meeting : 5-11-2026

sign up here : https://go.activecalendar.com/sluhn/event/st-lukes-share---pregnancy-and-infant-loss-support-group-st-lukes-hospital-anderson-campus-42/

St. Luke’s Share support group occurs monthly for parents and family members who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant loss. Our support group provides a compassionate forum to allow parents and families the opportunity to heal and work through the grieving process. The support group is facilitated by a member of our health care team to build a trusting environment where everyone can feel safe to share their personal stories and feelings. The support group allows for conversation and support around first time loss, multiple losses, pregnancy after loss, and impact of loss on you and your loved ones. At St. Luke’s we support our patients every step of the way!j

Group will meet monthly on the second Monday, 6:30pm to 8pm
Support Group will be held in Medical Office Building Conference Rooms A & B, lower level. Park
behind the building and use St Luke’s Fitness Center Entrance. Meeting room is at the end of the hall on the right.

05/01/2026

💙 From all of us at Riverside, we are overjoyed to share the arrival of Dr. DeFruscio’s sweet baby boy, Charlie. 💙

🐣 Charlie arrived a few weeks earlier than expected and is currently in the NICU, where he is doing well and receiving wonderful care 🥰 Mom is recovering and also doing well as she settles into this beautiful, overwhelming, and tender new chapter 🩵💞

💐While we will miss Dr. D dearly, we are holding her and her family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 close in our hearts during this time. We kindly ask for your patience 🙏 and understanding as we adjust schedules over the coming weeks so she can focus on healing ❤️‍🩹 and being with baby Charlie. 💙

💞 We are sending so much love to this little fighter 💪and his family, and we are hopeful and excited for the day Charlie gets to go home from the NICU. 💙

05/01/2026

Proud of our team and their commitment to reducing C-section rates! 🏆

St. Luke’s University Health Network has seen a meaningful decline in cesarean-section, or C-section, rates since introducing a nurse-led initiative focused on labor support and movement-based techniques. The initiative, called SPARK—Supporting Physiological Approaches, Resilience and Knowledge....

04/05/2026

🌷🐣 Happy Easter from Riverside! 🐰💐

Today we celebrate new beginnings, hope, and the joy of growing families 💛

We are so grateful to be part of your most special moments - welcoming new little lives, supporting families, and sharing in so many beautiful memories each day. Thank you for trusting Riverside with your care and allowing us to walk beside you on your journey. 🍼✨

To all of our Riverside families celebrating today - we wish you a day filled with love, laughter, sunshine, and sweet moments together. 🌸🌼

📸 We’d LOVE to see your Riverside babies and families this Easter! Please share your Easter photos in the comments below - seeing our babies grow is the best gift to our team! 💕

🐰🌷 Happy Easter from all of us at Riverside! 🌷🐰

04/01/2026

🌸 March Update from Riverside 🌸

What a beautiful month it has been at Riverside! 💕

👶 71 babies welcomed in March!
💗 Girls ruled this month - 40 girls and 31 boys
✨ And fun fact… the last 11 babies of March were ALL girls!

🎉 Grand Total Riverside Babies:
🩷 5,229 babies delivered
💙 2,648 boys | 🩷 2,581 girls

We also hold space in our hearts for the babies gone too soon 🤍🕊️ forever remembered and deeply loved.

🎂 A special birthday shout-out to Dr. Gillier - we loved celebrating you this month! 🥳🎈

🌷 As we look ahead to spring, we are grateful every day for the families who trust us and the community that continues to support Riverside. Thank you for allowing us to be part of your most meaningful moments. 💐

📸 Parents - please post your March babies in the comments! We LOVE seeing your little ones grow and celebrating them with you 💕👶✨

03/31/2026

Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Group - St Luke’s Chapter

Next Meeting : 4/13/2026

sign up here : https://go.activecalendar.com/sluhn/event/st-lukes-share---pregnancy-and-infant-loss-support-group-st-lukes-hospital-anderson-campus-43/

St. Luke’s Share support group occurs monthly for parents and family members who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant loss. Our support group provides a compassionate forum to allow parents and families the opportunity to heal and work through the grieving process. The support group is facilitated by a member of our health care team to build a trusting environment where everyone can feel safe to share their personal stories and feelings. The support group allows for conversation and support around first time loss, multiple losses, pregnancy after loss, and impact of loss on you and your loved ones. At St. Luke’s we support our patients every step of the way!j

Group will meet monthly on the second Monday, 6:30pm to 8pm
Support Group will be held in Medical Office Building Conference Rooms A & B, lower level. Park behind the building and use St Luke’s Fitness Center Entrance. Meeting room is at the end of the hall on the right.

03/30/2026

Dieruff trainer Danielle Vogt was one of the first to respond when umpire Mark Weil collapsed during a game at Allentown’s Patriots Park on Wednesday night

03/30/2026

Happy National Doctors’ Day! 🩺

🌸Today we celebrate the incredible physicians of Riverside who care for our patients with compassion, dedication, and expertise every single day. We are so proud to be an all-female team committed to supporting women and families through every stage of life. 🫶🏼

👏 We also want to recognize the amazing colleagues who stand beside us - from primary care to emergency department physicians to specialists - who help make exceptional patient care possible. 🤝Medicine is truly a team effort, and we are deeply grateful for the support that allows us to do what we love. 💕

✨One of our own, Dr. DeFruscio, is missing from this photo because she was exactly where you would expect her to be - caring for our labor patients. 💕

🫶🏼Thank you to our patients and our healthcare community for trusting us and partnering with us every day.🫶🏼

✨ Here’s to the heart behind healthcare. ✨

✍️ feel free to thank a doc in the comments and we’ll make sure to pass along the message! 🩷

03/08/2026

💪 Today we celebrate the strength, resilience, and brilliance of women everywhere. 💜

💖 At Riverside, we are especially grateful for the incredible women who lead, heal, comfort, organize, advocate, and show up every single day for our patients and for each other. 🙌 From physicians, physician assistants, and nurses to medical assistants, front desk staff, and managers - your compassion and dedication shape the heart of our practice 🫶🏻

✨To the women who trust us with their care, who grow their families with us, who lean on us in hard moments, and who celebrate life’s biggest joys with us — it is an honor to walk alongside you 👣

🥂 Here’s to strong women.
May we know them.
May we raise them.
May we be them. 💐

💕 Tag a woman who inspires you or share a message of appreciation in the comments below - let’s fill this space with love and encouragement today. 💕