Welcome to Hazleton General Hospital, a member of the Greater Hazleton Health Alliance. In 1891, Hazleton General Hospital was founded to provide medical care to the coal miners of this region. Since that time, health care in the United States and here in Hazleton has changed dramatically. For many years, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania owned our hospital.

In September 1986, Hazleton General Hospital divested from the State and became a not-for-profit community hospital. Then in October 1996, Hazleton General Hospital joined together with Hazleton-Saint Joseph Medical Center to form the Greater Hazleton Health Alliance. The Greater Hazleton Health Alliance (GHHA) was formed to bring the people of Greater Hazleton the highest quality healthcare and the latest available technology, without duplicating services, equipment and costs.

Eight years later, in 2004, an effort was begun to consolidate and relocate many services to Hazleton General Hospital. The cost of providing healthcare - which had been rising steadily across the country -had also affected our local hospitals and duplication of services at both facilities was no longer feasible.

Work began on consolidating inpatient and emergency services to Hazleton General Hospital, while outpatient services were moved to the Hazleton-Saint Joseph campus which had surrendered its acute care hospital license in September 2005 and operated as a service of Hazleton General Hospital until the two organizations merged in December 2006.

With the realigning of services to Hazleton General Hospital came the physical changes necessary to restructure the building to become Hazleton’s premiere health care facility. An $18 million construction and renovation project began in 2005 and was completed in November 2006. As part of the project, a two-story Annex building was constructed at the back of the hospital to house a new, state-of-the-art laboratory, medical records department, medical library, physician staff office and lounge, quality management and administrative offices. Inside the hospital, a Step-Down Unit was constructed to serve patients who were transitioning from the Intensive Care Unit.