Citing declining patient volume and reimbursement for care from commercial insurers, Heritage Valley Health System is closing its Kennedy Township hospital June 30. Among the services that will end is emergency room care, inpatient behavioral health, outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging and lung rehabilitation. The services will be moved to the system’s other two hospitals, with Heritage Valley Sewickley being the closest at just 8 miles from the Kennedy campus. Outpatient cardiac rehabilitation services will be moved to the system's Robinson Township Medical Neighborhood building while HVHS explores partnerships that would continue the inpatient behavioral health care that is provided at the Kennedy campus, according to the health system. Negotiations with Birmingham, Ala.-based for-profit Encompass Health's 12-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit at the Kennedy hospital were continuing.
