WHAT’S NEWS IN MCKEESPORT AREA
THRIVAL FESTIVAL 2018
“What makes us human?”
“How does technology humanize
or dehumanize us?”
“ What can we do as individuals and
communities to better prepare for the
future?”
Join in September 19-21 for the sixth
annual Thrival Festival to explore these
questions — and the evolving relationship
between humans and technology.
This unique conference experience
leverages the city’s strengths in automated
systems, advanced manufacturing, robotics
and life sciences.
Thrival convenes cross-sector dialogue
around the impact that these fast-developing
technologies will have on society, business,
and culture.
For more information on the festival, visit
thrivalfestival.com, and follow Thrival on
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.
Tickets are available at
thrival2018.eventbrite.com.
FORBES HOSPITAL
CELEBRATES 40
YEARS OF SERVICE TO
THE COMMUNITY
On May 1, Allegheny Health Network’s
Forbes Hospital marked 40 years of providing
health care to residents of the east suburbs
with a continuous commitment to excellence,
growth, innovation and personalized,
compassionate care focused on the
community’s needs.
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Founded by Monroeville civic leaders 40
years ago, Forbes has grown along with the
east suburbs amidst dramatic changes in the
health care landscape locally and nationally.
Forbes now offers high-level services that make
it possible for local residents to meet all their
health care needs close to home.
As Forbes celebrates its 40-year anniversary,
a new era of growth is at hand.
AHN Cancer Institute–Forbes, a full-service,
$35 million cancer and imaging center that
allows patients to receive all their care in their
local communities, is under construction on
the Forbes campus and expected to open in
2019. Also under construction is a $16 million
perioperative center that will enhance the
experience of patients undergoing surgery,
expand the post-acute care and cardiac
procedure unit, and add a state-of-the-art
electrophysiology lab.
“Forbes Hospital has seen many changes
over the past 40 years—mergers,
collaborations, name changes, ownership
changes and expansion. Yet Forbes continues
to thrive because it has remained focused on
its core mission: providing the residents of
Pittsburgh’s east suburbs with outstanding
health care close to home,” says Forbes
President and CEO Mark Rubino, MD.
The first Forbes Hospital System was
formed in 1972 through the merger of East
Liberty’s Pittsburgh Hospital and Wilkinsburg’s
Columbia Hospital. At the same time, a
private medical clinic had grown into East
Suburban General Hospital, the first hospital in
Monroeville.
The two groups competed for the chance
to bu