Allegheny Health Network is preparing to move into Nova Place on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
The Nova location will house 200 of the medical system’s remote clinical workforce and other employees beginning in 2026. The new lease is 20 years.
Employees on that team include digital nurses, teleICU clinicians and virtual sitters who “observe and care for patients at AHN hospitals 24/7 via remote monitoring technologies.”
Up to 150 people on the remote clinical workforce will be based at Nova Place, with room to eventually expand these virtual functions, officials said. Some non-clinical employees will be housed there as well, including people from revenue cycle and real estate services, as well as some clinical administration positions. AHN employs 24,000 people across Western Pennsylvania.
AHN will utilize about 48,000 square feet in Nova Place’s Tower 2, which will replace the leased administrative and clinical office space it has occupied at Four Allegheny Center for the last three decades. The lease at Four Allegheny Center, which is adjacent to Nova Place, expires in 2026.
Before the pandemic, Allegheny Center housed about 1,200 employees in about 200,000 square feet of office space. But post-pandemic, many of those people have “more flexible work arrangements,” AHN said, reducing AHN’s need for space.
Any employees not moving from Allegheny Center to Nova Place will be moved to other administrative office locations, AHN said, including its corporate headquarters at Fifth Avenue Place.
“Nova Place is an excellent fit for our remote workers and support employees, as it provides access to public transportation and parking, meets the infrastructure needs of our growing digital health and monitoring programs and minimizes the disruption to our employees that might have been caused by a potential relocation outside of the city,” said Brian Devine, chief financial officer at AHN.
Nova Place is owned by New York-based Faros Properties, which bought the complex in 2015. It already houses Innovation Works, the Pittsburgh Technology Council, Duquesne Light and other companies in the technology, health care and robotics sectors.