Our Story

The Coordinated Health Story:
Integrated. According to Webster's, it means to bring parts together or to make complete or whole. Coordinated Health is just that, a fully integrated medical practice. Averaging more than 5,000 patient visits each week at its six sites in the Lehigh Valley, Bucks County and the Poconos.

Coordinated Health has grown and evolved over the years to the point that it now includes 19 physicians, both physician and medical assistants, physical therapists , and a professional clerical staff.
And to think – it all started in October 1988 with one doctor, Emil J. DiIorio, and his vision for a multi-care practice.

Coordinated Health was founded as Sports Medicine Lehigh Valley at its current location on Schoenersville Road in Bethlehem. Later that year, a second physician, Carl B. Weiss, Jr., joined him. A third physician partner, Brett P. Godbout, joined the practice the following year.

Even though they provided services in three main areas: orthopedic surgery, sports medicine and occupational health. Since their practice was known as Sports Medicine Lehigh Valley, the sports medicine is what caught on and people throughout the area got to know the practice as Lehigh Valley Sports Medicine.

In 1993 the health center changed its name to Coordinated Health to reflect the many additional services it added: podiatry, physical medicine, chiropractic, family health services, walk-in injury care, physical and occupational therapy, hand therapy, hydrotherapy, on-site x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), wellness and prevention programs, and employer health services. The name change was a direct reflection on what the practice set out to do, to coordinate all the aspects of treating musco-skeletal problems, from a diagnosis to surgery to physical therapy, a patient could be treated and provided follow up care all under one roof.

The practice added not only services but also sites. An office opened in East Stroudsburg in December 1991. A Palmer Township site opened in January 1995, and a South Whitehall Township site opened in June 1995. A fifth health center opened in Bucks county in 2001.

Each of the sites have a full complement of therapy, fitness and rehab services. The sites are commonly referred to as Neighborhood Health Centers (NHC), since the practice, and philosophy, was brought to the patients in their own back yards.

In 1998, A 15,000-square-foot Ambulatory Surgery Center was opened in the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park IV in Hanover Township, Northampton County.

The center has four operating rooms, two treatment rooms, examination rooms, pre-operative and post-operative recovery areas and a large reception area. It is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is fully accredited by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. A year after it opened, St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network in Fountain Hill became a partner in the center, which provides endoscopy, pain management and ambulatory procedures including general, reconstructive, podiatric, and orthopedic and plastic surgery.

Plans are currently underway to expand the state of the art facility to include overnight rehabilitation stays. The facility will provide patients with a "home away from home" as they regain their strength after knee and joint replacements. The ambulatory surgery center is in keeping with the whole philosophy, of Coordinated Health, which is to treat patients, and then help them return to work or get them back on the playing field as soon as possible.

Coordinated Health also offers a range of corporate health services including injury treatment and physical exams, on-site health clinics and corporate fitness programs. Coordinated Health works with hundreds of companies throughout the area to prevent work-related injuries and to treat sick or injured employees so that they can return to the workplace as soon as possible. The occupational medicine practice has grown to included a "who's who" of businesses in the tri-county area who utilize Coordinated Health for their workers compensation needs. Each NHC has an employer case manager who acts as liaison between the employer and patient.

Coordinated Health also provides health services to area colleges and universities such as Lehigh, Lafayette, Moravian and DeSales, caring for both injured athletes and campus employees. Athletic trainers are on sight at many of the local high schools to provide care during sporting events.

The size and variety of services makes it unique in health care in the Lehigh Valley. Many other health care groups provide the services that Coordinated Health does, but the integration of services, coupled with the care is what makes Coordinated Health special.