MVH purchasing Mon-Vale HealthPLEX
Editors note: This story has been modified to clarify information.
Monongahela Valley Hospital reached an agreement to purchase the Mon-Vale HealthPLEX in Rostraver Township.
MVH President and Chief Executive Officer Louis Panza Jr. said in a message Thursday the hospital occupied nearly 70 percent of the facility at WillowPointe Plaza for more than a decade.
Hospital spokeswoman Corinne Laboon said Friday that MVH is purchasing the building from WillowPointe Partners. She declined to disclose the purchase price for the transaction, which is pending.
Panza described Mon-Vale HealthPLEX as “one of the area’s most advanced, medically integrated health and fitness complexes in the region. It was also one of the first medical malls which provided numerous clinical services, physician offices and health and fitness services under one roof.”
Services include the Center for Fitness and Health; MVH’s cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation; occupational medicine; HealthPLEX Imaging; Valley Outpatient Rehabilitation; and Vale-U-Health as well as primary care, orthopedic, neurosurgery and women’s health physician offices.
“This is an excellent opportunity for our health system and will anchor our hospital’s outpatient services for years to come in our region,” Panza said.
Laboon said about 100 people work at the health complex.
One of the tenants in the building besides the various health complex operations is the Willow Room, a popular banquet hall.
The Willow Room posted on its Facebook page Thursday it will close in 2017.
“They’re leaseholders just like we are,” Laboon said, adding “it’s up to the tenants to decide” whether to continue leasing.
“The Willow Room is closing, but it’s not our choice,” Laboon said.
WillowPointe Partners was formed in 2003 at 15 Arentzen Boulevard in Charleroi. WillowPointe plaza was constructed by General Industries, also headquartered at the same Arentzen Boulevard address. General Industries closed its operations in May after more than four decades of commercial construction experience and placed its headquarters building on Arentzen Boulevard in Speers Industrial Park for sale.
The company, founded in 1973 by the Ivill family, had a major presence in the region’s business landscape, know for its focus on commercial and industrial projects.
Donald Ivill, president and chief executive officer of General Industries since 1993, was not available for comment Friday on the sale of the building or the status of the Willow Room.