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Please click here to view Heritage Valley’s Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards!  

This is just another great reason to check out Heritage Valley Health System’s new and improved website! While Chrome is the best browser to view the website, it will work with all modern browsers, including Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge. (Please note that Internet Explorer is not fully compatible with the new site.)

The Heritage Valley Kennedy School of Nursing freshman students recently hosted the Western Pennsylvania Area Girl Scouts in their first ever collaborative “Healthcare Badge Blitz.” The nursing students fulfilled their community healthcare education requirement by developing and presenting demonstrations to the Girl Scouts on badge topics such as first aid, healthy meals, babysitting safety, exercise and other health and medical related fields. All presentations had to fulfill the requirements as recorded in the official Girl Scout Badge documents.

The Girl Scouts dressed wounds, listened to heart sounds on simulators, developed and cooked healthy recipes, learned about the different senses, practiced first aid (including how to perform abdominal thrusts on a choking infant), splinted a finger, wrapped a sprain and more. By the end of the evening, 87 badges were awarded to over 40 Girl Scouts! Also attending the event were troop leaders and family members.

The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their recommendations to allow certain immunocompromised individuals, as well as people ages 50 and over, who had an initial booster dose at least four months ago the opportunity to receive a second mRNA booster to increase protection against severe diseases caused by COVID-19. 

Heritage Valley will be offering second boosters at its ConvenientCare Walk-In Clinics in Center Township on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays; in Edgeworth on Wednesdays; and in Robinson Township on Thursdays. Boosters are available by appointment only. 

Center Township ConvenientCare Walk-In Clinic (Behind the Beaver Valley Mall)

Suite 200

79 Wagner Road - Monaca, PA 15061

Edgeworth ConvenientCare Walk-In Clinic (In the Esmark Building)

100 Hazel Lane - Sewickley, PA 15143

Robinson Township ConvenientCare Walk-In Clinic (Next to PNC Bank & DSW Shoes)

Suite 200

2201 Park Manor Blvd. - Pittsburgh, PA 15205

• People ages 12 years and older who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may choose to receive a second booster dose using an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 4 months after a first booster dose. (Moderna boosters may only be given to individuals ages 18 and older.)

• Adults ages 50 and older who are not immunocompromised may choose to receive a second booster dose using an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 4 months after the first booster dose.

For information about scheduling a COVID test, please click here.

For information about scheduling a COVID vaccine or booster, please click here.