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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 at 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.
SECOND ANNUAL FOOD
TRUCK-A-PALOOZA
The second-annual Food Truck-a-Palooza
drove into Monroeville in early March. Some
of the proceeds went toward assisting a local
volunteer fire station. This year’s event was
bigger and better than the first, with 32 food
trucks from around the region gathering at
the Monroeville Convention Center.
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The first indoor food truck event drew
3,000 people and 28 food trucks, with
$2,000 donated to Monroeville Volunteer
Fire Station #6.
Food trucks that participated in Food
Truck-a-Palooza included Burgh Bites,
Fantastic Food, South Side BBQ, Doce
Taqueria, PHG Halal Foods and many others.
For a full listing and more information, visit
the event’s Facebook page.
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