Patrick DeMeo, MD, chairman of the Pittsburgh system’s orthopedics department, said no site has been picked yet, but it will be somewhere outside Pittsburgh and may be partially owned by physicians.
Pittsburgh’s downtown hospitals have begun offering increasingly complex services, including open-heart surgery, in the suburbs.
Read Pittsburgh Business Times’ report on West Penn Allegheny Health System.
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