Sometimes even an apple a day won’t keep the doctor away. But whether you break your arm falling off a sliding board or face a life-threatening illness, you’ll receive the best of care in Scranton.

Scranton’s medical infrastructure is strong. Five hospitals are located within Lackawanna County’s borders and the three largest, Community Medical Center, Mercy Hospital, and Moses Taylor Hospital are located within walking distance of each other in Scranton’s Hill Section. Other local hospitals and surgery centers include Marian Community Hospital in Carbondale, Mid Valley Hospital in Peckville, and HEALTHSOUTH Scranton Surgery & Laser Center.

The sprawling campus of Allied Services sits on a Scranton hillside and is one of the nation’s largest rehabilitation complexes. Allied provides specialty care for the disabled and elderly. Allied’s services and programs include, spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation, toy adaption for disabled children, a pre-school speech and language clinic, wheelchair sports, the dePaul School for children with Dyslexia, and Alzheimer’s care.

The Northeast Regional Cancer Institute, headquartered on the campus of the University of Scranton, is a cooperative network of six hospitals and provides programs to benefit people living with cancer and their caregivers, oncology professionals, and the general public.

Saint Joseph’s Center of Scranton uses a combination of therapies including physical, occupational, speech, music and recreation to help children who are medically fragile and suffer from neurological impairments.

Northeastern Pennsylvania's oldest and largest children's charity, Friendship House has cared for children and families since 1871. It is the region's only provider of mental health treatment for both boys and girls with emotional difficulties from toddlers to adolescents. Headquartered at the Frances Fuller Campus, East Mountain, Friendship House also maintains facilities in Philadelphia, Pottsville, Pottstown, Hamlin, Honesdale and Lords Valley. Friendship House serves more than 600 children daily through a full range of JCAHO-accredited services including child and family counseling, day, evening and weekend partial hospitalization programs, autism care, residential care and treatment, foster care and adoption, and therapy in the home, school and community.

Founded in 1889, Lourdesmont/Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services is a non-profit adolescent mental health and substance abuse treatment center sponsored by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Lourdesmont provides therapeutic residential and day programs and interventions for girls and boys, age 12 to 18, referred from agencies in counties throughout a 28 county region of eastern Pennsylvania. The focus of services involves psycho-social-educational intervention provided through residential treatment, day treatment/partial hospitalization, and outreach programs for adolescents who present emotional, social, and/or behavioral concerns.

To ensure that our area is home to skilled medical professionals, the Northeast Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center works to improve the supply and distribution of health care professionals (with an emphasis on primary care) through community/academic educational partnerships, to increase access to quality health care. The Northeast AHEC's mission is to enhance access to health care for the underserved through education.

The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service. The American Cancer Society offers many resources to area cancer patients such as transportation and medication assistance, support groups, visitation programs, and wigs and turbans. The Society also offers many prevention, detection, and advocacy programs. These programs are funded through many different ways including special events such as Relay for Life and Daffodil Days. To learn more, please contact 1-888-227-5445.

Altogether, there are 21 hospitals in Northeastern Pennsylvania that can handle all but the most esoteric medical treatments such as transplantation. Within our medical community you’ll find: