Ohio Valley Hospital
hospital in Pennsylvania, United States
Ohio Valley Hospital, also known as Heritage Valley Kennedy from 2019 to 2025, is a defunct not-for-profit hospital in Kennedy Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located near McKees Rocks, the hospital was a 124-bed facility that served Pittsburgh's western suburbs. It opened in the 1890s and closed in 2025. The hospital included a nursing school operated in conjunction with California University of Pennsylvania, and a radiography school in conjunction with La Roche College. It also had a wound care center, a pain treatment center, a senior living community, and a cataract and eye care center.
History
The hospital was founded in the 1890s as McKees Rocks General Hospital by Samuel McCune Black, a doctor who owned it for a few years before transferring it to a public association in 1902. Annabell McAnulty was the first nurse to graduate from the nursing program in 1904.
The hospital officially became known as Ohio Valley General Hospital in 1906, when it was located in Norwood, a neighborhood of Stowe Township, Pennsylvania. In 1930, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, took over management of the hospital, keeping it a non-sectarian, community hospital.
Ohio Valley Hospital moved to its current location, the former Heckel farm in Kennedy Township, in 1949.
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