St. Luke's Health Care System

General information

Vision Statement
To be the provider of choice for patient care and the partner of choice to the providers of the region.

Organizational Values
These values provide the foundation of our culture as we pursue our mission and vision:
• The patient comes first
• Quality is our expectation
• People make it happen
• Everyone is treated with respect

Our History
St. Luke’s was the first hospital to be established in Duluth in 1881, in response to a typhoid epidemic that was ravaging the city. What began in a small room above a blacksmith’s shop has grown into a regional health care system. St. Luke’s now includes a multi-specialty hospital in Duluth and Lake View Hospital in Two Harbors, and 38 family medicine and specialty clinics throughout Duluth, Hermantown, Hibbing, Mountain Iron, Two Harbors, Silver Bay (Minnesota) and Superior and Ashland (Wisconsin).

Snapshot
St. Luke's at a Glance
• Serves a 17-county region in three states
(population of approximately 500,000)
• Federally designated as a Regional Trauma Center
(organized trauma program since 1975)
• 2,412 employees
• 267 beds
• 207 physicians and mid-level practitioners employed by St. Luke's
• 365 physicians on medical staff
• 11,424 admissions (FY 2011)
• 956 births (FY 2011)
• 63,471 ER/Urgent Care visits (FY 2011)
• 10,202 surgeries (FY 2011)
• 442,373 clinic visits (FY 2011)
• 157,420 outpatient registrations (FY 2011)