78-Acre Development Is One of Nation's Largest Sports Complexes and First with Onsite Healthcare Facility
State-of-the-art AHN Montour installation to supply convenient entree to the AHN Orthopaedic Institute's leading sports medicine programs and services, arsenic good arsenic pediatric, superior attraction & diagnostic imaging
, /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives of Allegheny Health Network (AHN), Highmark Health, and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer Club (SC) joined assemblage leaders and elected officials contiguous successful Coraopolis to officially unveil the caller AHN Montour Health + Sports Medicine Center. One of the largest sports complexes of its benignant successful the U.S., the 78-acre improvement includes aggregate indoor and outdoor diversion fields conjoined with a 20,000-square-foot aesculapian installation that volition service arsenic a premier destination for sports show grooming and aesculapian care.
Located astatine 2419 State Avenue, the caller installation is expected to unfastened to patients connected Monday, November 7.
Developed successful collaboration with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC, the AHN Montour Health + Sports Medicine Center presently features 3 turfed, FIFA regulation-sized shot and multi-purpose fields, including 1 full-size indoor tract for year-round use. Seven further outdoor fields are nether operation with expected completion successful 2023. The caller field volition beryllium utilized arsenic a signifier tract for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and location basal for the Riverhounds Development Academy, which annually trains much than 5,000 athletes ranging from 4-18 years old.
Leading clinicians from the AHN Orthopaedic Institute volition supply onsite orthopaedics and sports medicine services to patients and athletes of each ages astatine the Montour site, including physical/occupational therapy, sports show training, a physician-led concussion diagnosis and absorption program, and more.
Patients volition besides person entree astatine the sprawling field to AHN superior care, pediatric care, laboratory services and diagnostic imaging, including X-ray and MRI.
"As portion of AHN's committedness to improving the wellness and wellness of patients crossed Western Pennsylvania, we are truthful pleased to bring this unthinkable caller assets to the community, and country, successful concern with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds," said Patrick DeMeo, MD, chair, AHN Orthopedic Institute. "Our exceptional squad of caregivers looks guardant to gathering the needs of patients and athletes astatine each level from this outstanding installation for decades to come."
From the AHN Orthpaedic Institute, the installation volition beryllium staffed by sports medicine superior attraction doc Ravi Ved, DO, arsenic good arsenic big reconstruction surgeons Alan Slipak, MD, and Jeffrey Sewecke, DO; sports medicine surgeons Sam Akhavan, MD, DJ Phillips, MD, and Aaron Burgess, MD; ft and ankle surgeon James Sferra, MD; and orthopaedic spine surgeon Ryan Sauber, MD.
A cardinal constituent of the caller facility's offerings volition beryllium AHN's sports show services led by Frank Velasquez, manager of AHN sports show and a nationally recognized specializer successful sports show training. AHN's broad sports show program includes personalized spot grooming and conditioning programs designed for progressive adults and athletes of immoderate property and level, precocious wounded prevention and betterment regimens for individuals and teams, and elaborate sports show evaluations.
Participants successful the sports show programme volition person entree to state-of-the-art sports show and betterment instrumentality specified arsenic the Alter G Anti-Gravity Treadmill; a Cryo-Sauna designed to beforehand faster healing of injuries; a Dynavision Visumotor System designed to heighten absorption times and coordination; a Vibration Drum and Platform utilized to assistance with warm-up, exercises and chill down during workouts; and Recovery Pump Compression Boots that beforehand circulation and shorten wounded betterment times.
The facility's Sports Science Lab – a archetypal of its benignant successful the portion – features precocious exertion utilized to place restrictions oregon areas of weakness wrong an athlete's assemblage by capturing in-depth metrics and analytics. Trainers volition usage this accusation to assistance them successful gathering retired an athlete's spot grooming template and progression plan.
AHN Pediatric and Primary Care Institutes volition besides connection services astatine AHN Montour, providing a afloat spectrum of broad attraction from the earliest years on. Patients, and families, volition beryllium capable to docket yearly visits, wellness checkups arsenic good arsenic question acute attraction 5 days a week. AHN pediatrician Howard Topol, MD, and superior attraction doc Sarah Shinn, MD, are disposable for appointments opening November 7.
AHN has been the authoritative aesculapian supplier of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC since 2008. The caller installation is different testament to the worth of the organizations' agelong partnership, said Tuffy Shallenberger, proprietor of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and developer of the complex.
"We're grateful that Allegheny Health Network has been the longest-running spouse of the Riverhounds organization, and a batch of enactment from everyone progressive has gone into making this analyzable a reality," Shallenberger said. "This installation is going to beryllium 2nd to none, and it volition supply terrific benefits to our organizations, the Coraopolis assemblage and athletes from each astir the region."
To larn much astir sports medicine and show astatine AHN, sojourn https://www.ahn.org/services/orthopaedic/specialties/sports-medicine.
About the Allegheny Health Network:
Allegheny Health Network (AHN.org) is an integrated healthcare transportation strategy serving the greater Western Pennsylvania region. The Network is composed of 14 hospitals, ambulatory country centers, Health + Wellness Pavilions, an employed doc organization, location and community-based wellness services, a probe institute and a radical purchasing organization. The Network provides patients with entree to a implicit spectrum of precocious aesculapian services, including nationally recognized programs for superior and exigency care, cardiovascular disease, crab care, orthopedic surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, women's health, diabetes and more. AHN employs astir 21,000 people, has much than 2,600 physicians connected its aesculapian unit and serves arsenic a objective field for Drexel University College of Medicine and the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
About the Orthopaedic Institute astatine AHN
The AHN Orthopaedic Institute is 1 of the largest and astir broad orthopaedic country and sports medicine programs successful the authorities of Pennsylvania. Its much than 70 affiliated orthopaedic surgeons and sports medicine specialists supply entree to a afloat spectrum of attraction for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases, including advanced, minimally-invasive surgical approaches that assistance patients retrieve faster and with little pain. The Institute's broad sports show programme provides individualized spot training, carnal therapy, sports medicine, sports nutrition, and precocious betterment for processing youths, performing athletes and progressive adults. These programs travel industry-leading protocols and are supported by highly precocious technologies disposable successful premiere facilities specified arsenic the AHN Cool Springs Sports Complex successful Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Designated an Official U.S. Olympic Regional Medical Center, AHN is 1 of a fewer starring aesculapian providers selected by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to supply broad aesculapian services to elite Team USA athletes. AHN is besides the authoritative aesculapian supplier of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Gannon University, Mercyhurst University and astir 30 Western Pennsylvania country precocious schoolhouse diversion programs. To larn more, sojourn www.ahn.org/services/orthopaedic.
About Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC
Established successful 1999, Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC is Pennsylvania's oldest nonrecreational shot squad and 1 of the longest-operating pro shot teams successful the United States. The squad plays its location games astatine Highmark Stadium, which opened successful 2013 arsenic a team-owned, soccer-specific stadium successful Pittsburgh's South Shore neighborhood. The squad is an archetypal subordinate of the USL Championship, which began play successful 2011 and has grown to go the world's largest second-division pro shot league.
SOURCE Allegheny Health Network
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