For the second year in a row, Independence Health System has lost more money than the previous year.
The health system on Tuesday, Nov. 7, reported an operating loss of $43.2 million for the year endi.
Independence Health System is keeping all five of its hospitals open despite cutting hundreds of positions and losing $62 million in the nine-month period endin
It has been nearly a year since the world of Ludmil Velev changed forever.
For a few months in early 2020, his mother was visiting Pittsburgh from Bulgaria, thrilled to be with her granddaughter.
“I’m happy I spent time with her,” said Velev, 44, of Greenfield. “She was extremely happy to be with us.”
The smiles and joy turned into tears and a fight for life something neither mother nor son could have anticipated as the coronavirus crept into Western Pennsylvania in March 2020. Ofelia Rousseva, 78, died March 19, becoming the second reported death in Allegheny County connected to covid-19. Velev spent 10 days afterward in a hospital battling the disease himself.