JACKSON TWP — The agreement creating the name AHN Seneca Valley is officially in place, although the school district and health care company have a collaborative relationship already.

Seneca Valley School Board members voted on Monday evening to approve the agreement with Allegheny Health Network for naming rights on the new medical facility at 232 Wise Road.

The medical facility was named Allegheny Health Network Seneca Valley Outpatient Center, better known as AHN Seneca Valley, in celebration of the partnership between the two entities.

The agreement does not include a financial component, like AHN paying for naming rights on the district’s aquatic center and baseball/softball complex.

The district has for three years used AHN doctors as athletic trainers for various varsity sports.

The school district’s appointed physician is also an AHN doctor.

AHN Seneca Valley will provide primary, specialty and diagnostic services to local residents when it opens in the near future.

The new building is just two miles from the Seneca Valley campus and within reach of all district families.

"Bringing it into the community is really a goal of AHN, bringing care to where the patients are," JoAnne Clobus, strategic communications adviser at AHN, said earlier this month. "I would call it a healthcare resource for them to go to for treatment and therapy."

Also at Monday night’s meeting, the board heard Randy Miller, director of buildings and grounds, report that a water line was breached by a nail during construction of the new Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School, which resulted in $7,000 in damages.

The board approved the expenditure, and Miller pointed out after the meeting that unplanned work — known as “change orders” — at Ehrman Crest has been limited to less than 3% of the $63 million cost of building the school.

“It’s unbelievable,” Miller said. “I’ve never been a part of a project like this.”

He said keeping change order costs low during a pandemic is additionally astounding.