Overview
- Heritage Valley Beaver and Sewickley would become Allegheny Health Network’s 15th and 16th hospitals under the signed agreement.
- AHN will become Heritage Valley’s sole corporate member, and Heritage Valley’s outpatient clinics and physician practices will fully integrate into AHN.
- Both organizations plan decade-long investments to upgrade facilities, expand services, and modernize IT infrastructure, and they have not disclosed financial terms.
- Leaders cited post‑COVID workforce and resource pressures and tougher physician recruiting, with Heritage Valley’s CEO saying certain services could have faced cutbacks without a partner.
- Highmark Health notes thousands of its insured members already receive care at Heritage Valley, and the system reports roughly 95,000 annual ER visits across the two hospitals plus about 80,000 walk‑in clinic visits.