(File Photo of the Heritage Valley Health System Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital permanently closed on Monday due to volume of patients and reimbursement for commercial insurance. The services that finished at that hospital are outpatient surgery services, inpatient behavioral health, and emergency room care. These services will go to Heritage Valley Beaver and Heritage Valley Sewickley along with diagnostic imaging and services for lung rehabilitation services. However, next to the facility along Heckel Road, a medical office building will stay open. Appointments in the next week for patients at Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital will still be held.