• Getting Mental Health Care to Veterans in Rural Areas

    In recent years, an ever-increasing number of people have sought behavioral health care services at Highlands Hospital, many of them veterans. But for the most part, they aren't coming in and saying, "Hello, I have behavioral health care needs, can you please help?" More often than not, they are being admitted to the Emergency Room after a car accident or a drug overdose. Or they're coming in over and over again with headaches or stomache aches.

  • Highlands Hospital: Looking To The Future

    Highlands Hospital believes it is essential that we evolve to meet the growing needs of our community, as well as ensure that we, as an independent community hospital, remain financially strong and forward thinking.

    Throughout 2012, we are embracing several areas of distinction to improve the quality of care and services we provide, to build a healthier community.

    Areas of Distinction (click for PDF)

  • Amerinet Announces 2012 Member Achievement Award Winners

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Contact: Evan Danis
    Director, Communications and Media
    724-778-3423
    evan.danis@amerinet-gpo.com

    Amerinet Announces 2012 Member Achievement Award Winners

  • Fighting diabetes in Fayette County: High rate blamed on poor access to doctors, poverty

    Fayette County now leads Pennsylvania in the rate of diabetes — 12 percent, or around 17,300 people — according to new data, while the county ranks second only to Philadelphia in diabetes-related hospitalizations.

    And although amputations due to diabetes have been stable in Philadelphia, in Fayette County, the total rose 40 percent between 2002 and 2009.

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  • The New Reality: Charity Care

    Sunday, October 30, 2011
    By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Original article

    The demand for charity care is up at one hospital in Fayette County, but so is the can-do spirit

    CONNELLSVILLE -- The good people of Fayette County know about doing without -- recent U.S. census data show that one in five Fayette County residents lives in poverty, defined as a family of four with an annual income of just over $22,000.

  • The New Reality: Charity Care

    By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    CONNELLSVILLE -- The good people of Fayette County know about doing without -- recent U.S. census data show that one in five Fayette County residents lives in poverty, defined as a family of four with an annual income of just over $22,000.

    For Highlands Hospital, the smaller of Fayette County’s two acute care facilities, this means a growing percentage of the care it gives is charitable -- care for which the hospital can’t and won’t collect payment.

  • Highlands Hospital 22nd Annual Golf Outing Winners

    First Place winners of the Highlands Hospital 22nd Annual Golf Outing to benefit newly opened Autism Center.  
    Left to right:  Vic Gasbarro, Golf Chairperson, Ben Haug, Ed Klik, Chuck Laverty, Stephen Andursky, and Michelle Cunningham, CEO Highlands Hospital.

  • Opening Ceremony Photos

  • Getting Mental Health Care to Veterans in Rural Areas

    In recent years, an ever-increasing number of people have sought behavioral health care services at Highlands Hospital, many of them veterans. But for the most part, they aren't coming in and saying, "Hello, I have behavioral health care needs, can you please help?" More often than not, they are being admitted to the Emergency Room after a car accident or a drug overdose. Or they're coming in over and over again with headaches or stomache aches.