WHS doctors groups merging, will open practice at Park Place
A merged group of Washington Health System physicians will open an office in Park Place at the Meadowlands.
Lynda Nester
Lisa Mowry Perri
Two internal medicine practices affiliated with Washington Health System are merging and moving.
Physicians Richard B. Hart II, Douglas T. Corwin Jr. and Henry A Folb, and nurse practitioner Mary Ellen Rhoa are forming Washington Health System Internal Medicine. They will practice at Park Place at the Meadowlands, 1000 Park Place, Suite 209, with a targeted start of June 20.
Park Place is just east of Route 19 and Racetrack Road in North and South Strabane townships. The newly merged foursome – all members of Washington Physicians Group – will be in North Strabane, where the majority of the project is located.
Hart, Corwin and Rhoa work together at 190 N. Main St., Washington. Their practice is called Washington Health System Internal Medicine – North Main, but after the move, those three will see patients only at Park Place. But a practice with which it shares a waiting room, WHS Family Medicine – North Main, will remain at that location.
Folb practices at Washington Health System Internal Medicine – Houston, at 22 W. Pike St. That office will close following the move.
Teresa Babyak is director of operations for the physicians group.
The first businesses opened at Park Place in October 2013, at the BFS superstore near the entrance.
For more information, call 724-229-7570.
FirstLight HomeCare, which provides nonmedical care in clients’ homes, has a growing footprint: more than 120 locations in 30 states.
That footprint has now extended to the Pittsburgh area. The company recently opened its first office in the region, at 3244 Washington Road, Suite 239, in Peters Township. It is called the Southwest Pittsburgh location, and is near Arlecchino Ristorante.
Local residents Mykal and Christine Kousins are co-owners of the local office, which serves seniors, new mothers, people recovering from surgery and adults seeking assistance living in Washington and Allegheny counties. Caregivers can provide personal hygiene and household duties.
The phone is 724-383-3200. For more information, visit SWPitt.FirstLightHomeCare.com.
Tara Rohall raised the barre for her homecoming.
Rohall, a Southpointe native, is the owner of barre3, an exercise facility that will open Monday at 1800 Main St. in Southpointe II’s Town Center. Classes and onsite child care the first week -through May 22 – will be free.
The facility’s signature workout is a combination of yoga, Pilates and ballet barre work. Based in Portland, Ore.. barre3 has more than 75 franchises in the United States and abroad.
• Lynda Nester, assistant vice president of Nursing at Monongahela Valley Hospital, received the 2016 Edward J. Protin Memorial Award at MVH’s annual Service Recognition event Tuesday. The honor goes to an employee with 10 or more years of service who makes significant contributions to the health system. Last year’s recipient, Daniel F. Simmons, senior vice president and chief financial officer, made the presentation.
• Lisa Mowry Perri of Chartiers Township received her Pennsylvania Real Estate Sales License. She will be an associate with Joseph B. Koval Real Estate, West Chestnut Street, Washington, assisting in listing, marketing and selling residential, commercial and industrial property.
• Southpointe-based Horizon Properties Group opened a 94-suite TownePlace Suites by Marriott in the Allegheny Valley. Known formally as TownePlace Suites Pittsburgh Harmarville, the extended-stay facility is at 2785 Freeport Road, near Exit 48 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Horizon Properties owns and Horizon Hospitality manages the property.
• St. Clair Hospital last week became the only hospital in the region to receive the top grade – an A – four years in a row from Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog on patient safety. Leapfrog assigns the marks A, B, C, D and F. The Mt. Lebanon facility is among 6 percent of U.S. hospitals to get that grade the past three years.
• Huntley & Huntley Inc., a Monroeville-based natural gas and oil explorer and producer, hired M. Christopher Doyle to lead development and expansion of the firm’s Marcellus and emerging Utica shale plays. Doyle, 43, has 20-plus years of senior technical and financial leadership in oil and gas, most recently with Chesapeake Energy Corp.