Overview
- Allegheny Health Network confirms its United Physicians practice in New Kensington will close on Dec. 31.
- The network says the closure follows the lone physician’s planned departure disclosed before staff voted to unionize in early September.
- Teamsters Local 30 and clinic employees rallied this week and filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging retaliatory union-busting.
- U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio joined community members urging AHN to keep the city’s only AHN clinic open.
- AHN says it will coordinate transfers to nearby primary care sites as patients and advocates warn of access hurdles for largely elderly, low-income residents, with local reports citing more than 3,000 patients affected.