9-08-2025 5:34am

Lehigh Valley Health Network Announces David & Jackie Jaindl Family Birth and Newborn Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest

Lesley Misko Editor

Lehigh Valley, Pa. (Sept. 3, 2025) — Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), part of Jefferson Health, celebrated the dedication of the David and Jackie Jaindl Family Birth and Newborn Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Cedar Crest. With more than 3,100 births each year, the unit is the region’s most comprehensive provider in pregnancy and delivery care services. The multiphase renovation began in September 2024 to ensure the spaces match the expert patient care and experience already provided.

“Giving back is a core principle of our family, thanks to my father and grandfather,” David Jaindl says. “Everyone deserves access to high-quality health care, and our community counts on LVHN to provide that care,” Jackie Jaindl says. “Our family is honored to help make that possible for current and future generations in our region.”

“The renovations to the Family Birth and Newborn Center will be transformative for our patients, families, colleagues and community,” says Amanda B. Flicker, MD, Interim Clinical Leader, Women’s Health Service Line, Jefferson Health, and Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, LVHN. “Thanks to the generosity of the Jaindl family, we are creating the first-class experience they all deserve.”

The updated features include:

Makeover of family waiting room with new furnishings to add comfort for patients’ families and friends
A new bereavement room for families who experience a devastating loss
Redesigned nurses’ stations for improved communication, access and patient privacy
Improved nurses’ lounge with more privacy and space, including a wellness room for staff
Renovated rooms with enhanced lighting and new décor, window coverings and furniture
A new birthing suite dedicated to midwifery, creating a birth center feeling in a hospital environment, with hydrotherapy, special furnishings and more
New staff locker rooms and on-call rooms for OB providers and anesthesiologists

Expected completion for the multiphase project is December 2025.

Newsweek ranks LVH–Cedar Crest among the top maternity care hospitals in the U.S. for care provided to infants and mothers.

The center’s opening was celebrated with a ribbon cutting and reception on Sept. 3 attended by David and Jackie Jaindl, their five children and their spouses, 11 grandchildren and extended family, along with LVHN leaders and colleagues from the Family Birth and Newborn Center.

Bob Begliomini, PharmD, President, Jefferson Health–Lehigh Valley Region, spoke at the dedication, highlighting the Jaindls’ deep roots at LVHN. “The Jaindl family’s commitment to the Lehigh Valley—and the health of this community—is tremendous. David and Jackie continue their family’s legacy at LVHN through their generous gift to the David and Jackie Jaindl Family Birth and Newborn Center, which fittingly resides in the Fred Jaindl Family Pavilion,” Begliomini says. In 1998, David’s father, Fred, made the largest gift (to date) in LVHN’s history to build a new wing at LVH–Cedar Crest that bears the family name.

About Jefferson
Lehigh Valley Health Network is now proudly part of Jefferson Health. Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the Greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.