BEAVER, Pa. — The landscape of health care in the Tri-State Area experienced another change Thursday, when officials from Heritage Valley Health System, the Heritage Valley Health System Foundation, Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network signed an affiliation agreement that will strengthen and expand the services that HVHS provides to residents in western Allegheny County, greater Beaver County and the surrounding region.

Pending government approval of the transaction, the affiliation will establish Heritage Valley Beaver and Heritage Valley Sewickley as AHN’s 15th and 16th hospitals and fully integrate Heritage’s outpatient clinics and physician practices within the AHN family.

The announcement came one day after Steubenville-based Trinity Health System and UPMC signed a non-bindi

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