Highmark, AHN open medical facility Downtown

Center to serve rising number of residents

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network officials Tuesday announced the opening of what they believe is the only Downtown-based medical facility offering primary care, physical therapy and other health services.

The facility is on Penn Avenue across the street from Highmark’s Stanwix Street headquarters, taking space in the building that formerly housed Old Navy and, before that, Horne’s department store.

While more than 110,000 people commute to Downtown for work, a key impetus for the Downtown medical center is the more than 15,000 residents now living within the Golden Triangle.

That’s a 25 percent increase in Downtown residents in the past five years, said Stefani Pashman, CEO of the Allegheny Conference, one of the speakers at Tuesday’s ribbon cutting.

The 7,600-square-foot AHN Downtown Medical Center includes 16 examination rooms, Xray imaging and, beginning in early 2019, women’s health care services. It also houses AHN’s executive health and wellness program, a concierge-style program for local business leaders.

The center will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and, while not designed as a drop-in clinic, it will take same-day appointments.

And for those who work late, “We will find a way to see them on their schedule rather than ours,” promised Highmark Health president and CEO David Holmberg.

Representing Mayor Bill Peduto at the ceremony, chief of staff Dan Gilman described Downtown as “one of our greatest residential neighborhoods.” He said