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112-543: UPMC has its roots in the 1893 establishment of Presbyterian Hospital , which serves as the medical center's flagship facility, and the 1886 founding of the Western Pennsylvania Medical College . Soon after its founding, the medical college became affiliated with the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1892, and in 1908, was fully integrated into the university which that same year was renamed to

224-467: A Carleton College alumnus and former Duquesne University biology graduate student, entered the building at 1:42   p.m. with two semiautomatic handguns and shot six people in the first-floor lobby. Michael Schaab, 25, a Western Psychiatric therapist, was killed. University of Pittsburgh police arrived just after 2 p.m. and engaged Shick in a gun battle, eventually killing him. Seven people, including Pitt police officers, were injured and two, including

336-420: A 41-bed emergency department and a 36-bed pediatric intensive care unit . A ten-story research center was constructed, with seven out of the ten floors dedicated to pediatric medical research. UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital is a UPMC specialty hospital that serves as its primary facility for women's health. Opened mainly for women on January 19, 1911, it has offered some services for men since the 1960s. The hospital

448-548: A UPMC facility to have surgery to repair his torn anterior cruciate ligament . Administratively headquartered in 29 floors of the U.S. Steel Tower in Pittsburgh's Central Business District , UPMC operates as a complete and integrated health provider system that, although legally separate from the University of Pittsburgh , identifies it as a supported organization in its articles of incorporation and remains closely affiliated with

560-555: A combined 423 beds. Founded by Lutherans in 1849, Passavant was the first Protestant hospital built in the United States. In 1964, Passavant moved from the City of Pittsburgh to its location in McCandless to serve the communities of northern Allegheny and southern Butler counties. Passavant merged with UPMC in 1997 and in 2002, as part of UPMC's acquisition of St. Francis Medical Center for

672-526: A four-hospital system in north central Pennsylvania, became the first domestic hospital outside Western Pennsylvania to join the UPMC system. Subsequently, UPMC Susquehanna merged with two additional community hospitals in October of the following year. In December 2016, WCA Hospital of Jamestown, New York , became the first domestic hospital outside of Pennsylvania in the UPMC system. In September 2017, Pinnacle Health,

784-467: A full range of HMOs, PPOs, and EPOs for group health insurance, Medicare, CHIP , Medical Assistance, behavioral health, employee assistance, and workers' compensation products and services. UPMC also offers consumer-directed health plans like health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements . UPMC's provider networks total more than 138 hospitals and more than 16,500 physicians across Pennsylvania and has around three million members making it

896-518: A job at the University of Pittsburgh as an associate professor of bacteriology and the head of the Virus Research Lab. While at Pitt, he began research on polio and the process of developing a vaccination. In 1952 Salk had created the first Polio vaccination. Salk went on CBS radio to report a successful study on a small group of adults and children and two days later Salk published the results of

1008-548: A laundry facility. In May 2019 members of the public voiced concerns at a board meeting at UPMC Presbyterian over UPMC's practices of not acting like the non-profit that they are. Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, John Fetterman attended and made the statement "In 10 years, I haven't seen UPMC do the right thing." UPMC South Side UPMC Outpatient Center was a 209,000-square-foot (19,400 m ) outpatient facility that provides, among other services, Orthopaedic services, primary care services, and physicians offices to

1120-483: A life-saving double lung transplant at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. She later died due to complications from the surgery. On October 27, 2018, a man with anti-Semitic views entered Tree of Life synagogue and started to open fire upon the worshippers inside. In total, 11 people were killed and 8 people were injured with the majority of the injured taken to the trauma center at UPMC Presbyterian, with fewer taken to UPMC Mercy and Allegheny General Hospital ,

1232-587: A merger with Mercy Hospital in 2008; the opening of new Children's Hospital facilities in 2009; the integrations of Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pennsylvania , in 2011, Altoona Regional Health System in Altoona, Pennsylvania , in 2013, and Jameson Health System in New Castle, Pennsylvania , in 2016; along with the continued expansion of overseas operations and for-profit business ventures. In October 2016, Susquehanna Health,

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1344-532: A national leader in providing best practice, research-based care and a broad array of innovative psychiatric and addiction services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors at every stage of their recovery. Located adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Thomas Detre Hall on O'Hara Street in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, and connected to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital by a tunnel, Western Psychiatric houses

1456-872: A network of home health services (UPMC HomeCare) and a network of 15 senior living facilities (UPMC Senior Communities). UPMC Insurance Services, operating under the umbrella UPMC Health Plan brand, was founded in 1998 and includes various for-profit and non-profit health care financing initiatives. The integrated products of the UPMC Insurance Services Division include UPMC Health Plan ( HMO ), UPMC Health Network ( PPO ), Workpartners ( workers' compensation and disability for employers), UPMC for Life ( Medicare products), UPMC for You (HMO for Medical Assistance beneficiaries), UPMC for Kids , Community Care Behavioral Health Organization (a non-profit behavioral health PPO for Medical Assistance beneficiaries) and Community HealthChoices. These products combine to offer

1568-440: A new affiliation agreement between the university and Presbyterian Hospital established a three-tiered mission of patient care, research, and education and by 1951, the hospital name changed to Presbyterian University Hospital in order to reflect its close ties with the University of Pittsburgh. In 1958, the "University of Pittsburgh Health Center" was noted to comprise (1) Schools of Medicine , Dentistry , Pharmacy , Nursing , and

1680-399: A number of local hospitals to train their medical students and residents. At the same time, Presbyterian hospital started to go through financial hardships that led to the eventual move to the new hospital funded by the University of Pittsburgh. In the mid-1920's the University of Pittsburgh and its School of Medicine desired to establish an academic medical center on their campus, and by

1792-470: A pioneering surgeon called the Father of Transplantation, Dr. Thomas E. Starzl came to the hospital, on condition that he would be free of administrative tasks and able to focus on medicine. In a matter of a few years he launched the country's first pediatric and adult liver transplant program. On February 14, 1984, under the direction of Starzl, Drs. Byers W. Shaw Jr. and Henry T. Bahnson successfully completed

1904-420: A separate entity. In 1990, MHCD acquired neighboring Montefiore Hospital which it merged with Presbyterian University Hospital to form the entity that was then renamed as the "University of Pittsburgh Medical Center" (shortened to UPMC), which was the first time the current name of the medical center was officially used. UPMC then began to form a network of affiliated specialty and community hospitals in 1994 termed

2016-509: A series of interrelated agreements and mutual executive oversights, which includes the sharing of numerous board members. This created a collaborative and coordinated decision-making model in which UPMC oversees all clinical activity, while the University of Pittsburgh remains the guardian of all academic priorities, particularly faculty-based research. Expansion of UPMC continued in 2001 as Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh began merging with UPMC. Since then, UPMC's growth has continued, including

2128-551: A series of pedestrian bridges. UPMC Eye & Ear Institute is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is conjoined with the medical complex housing UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Montefiore, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and associated medical research towers. UPMC Ear & Eye Institute is one of a few centers in the nation dedicated entirely to the management of problems related to otolaryngology and ophthalmology. UPMC's nine-story Clinical Laboratory Building (CLB) opened in 2013 and cost $ 39 million. The CLB

2240-581: A seven-hospital system in South Central Pennsylvania , merged with UPMC and concurrently merged with Hanover Hospital. Cole Memorial hospital partnered with UPMC Susquehanna and merged with the UPMC system in March 2018. Somerset Hospital , located in Somerset, Pennsylvania , merged with UPMC on February 1, 2019. On February 3, 2020, Western Maryland Health System became the first Maryland hospital to join

2352-547: A staff of 2,500, of which 1,500 are medically licensed. It also operates a satellite hospital in the city's northern suburbs as part as the UPMC Passavant facility as well as 9 metro area imaging clinics. In 2011 the hospital undertook an expansion of its main facility which was completed in June, 2012. The expansion added six floors, increased the number of beds from 318 to 360 (including 14 additional intensive care rooms), and expanded

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2464-568: A story was published by author Andrew Schneider in The Pittsburgh Press criticizing the hospitals' use of unsupervised first and second-year residents in the emergency departments. The article went on to say that these practices were compromising patient care and the education of the residents. A week later, on September 16, The Pittsburgh Press published another article criticizing the original article and claiming that many claims made by Schneider were false or industry standard. Ground

2576-556: A vision hospital set to open adjacent to UPMC Mercy, a 180-bed cancer hospital set to open adjacent to UPMC Shadyside, and a 620-bed heart and transplant specialty hospital set to open adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian. The UPMC Vision Institute opened in the 9-story UPMC Mercy Pavilion in April 2023. A 17-story specialty medicine tower adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian broke ground in June 2022 and is targeted to open in 2026. The following tertiary hospitals are major full-service, referral hospitals of

2688-415: A warehouse on Mary Street to 70 beds. The hospital next added an annex in 1909 and a nine-story East Wing in 1950. These older facilities were demolished in 1982 to make way for the current facility which at the time cost $ 39 million. On May 1, 1996, the hospital merged with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to become UPMC South Side and continued to serve as a 149-bed community hospital in

2800-524: Is "to advance UPMC's mission of positively transforming the way health care is provided in the U.S. and abroad, while revitalizing the economy of western Pennsylvania." UPMC International provides health care consulting and management services around the world in areas in various areas including clinical program development, facility and construction planning, clinical investigation, clinical and administrative staff training, and health information technology, and quality, safety, and Innovation. UPMC Enterprises

2912-410: Is UPMC's primary flagship medical entity and represents the core of UPMC's academic, teaching , trauma , specialty and research-related facilities, serving as the system's primary academic hub and Pennsylvania's largest inpatient acute care hospital. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside includes UPMC Presbyterian hospital and the physically conjoined UPMC Eye & Ear and UPMC Montefiore hospitals as well as

3024-576: Is a 31-bed acute care hospital located in Kane, Pennsylvania , that became an affiliate of UPMC Hamot in November, 2009. UPMC Kane was fully integrated into the UPMC network on April 1, 2017, and functions as a direct subsidiary of UPMC Hamot. UPMC Passavant is UPMC's tertiary care hospital of Pittsburgh's northern suburbs that consist of two campuses, one in McCandless and another in Cranberry Township with

3136-443: Is a 361-bed, non-profit, private community hospital system that contains more than 20 affiliated health care companies and functions as the regional referral center and tertiary hub of UPMC in west central Pennsylvania. UPMC Hamot is 423-bed, tertiary care teaching medical center with a Level II trauma center located in Erie, Pennsylvania . Hamot offers primary medical care and the full complement of medical specialties. The hospital

3248-621: Is a 900-bed non-profit research and academic hospital located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , providing tertiary care for the Western Pennsylvania region and beyond. It comprises the Presbyterian campus of the combined UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside hospital entity. It is the largest hospital in Pennsylvania as of 2018. The medical center is a part of

3360-460: Is a nationally ranked, 520-bed non-profit, tertiary, teaching hospital located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . UPMC Shadyside is a part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and grouped in with the flagship UPMC Presbyterian. The hospital is near UPMC's flagship campus which houses Presbyterian and Montefiore . As the hospital is a teaching hospital, it

3472-575: Is affiliated with University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine . The hospital has an emergency room to handle emergencies, with a rooftop helipad to transport critical patients to and from the hospital. UPMC Shadyside houses the flagship campus of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center , a nationally ranked cancer hospital. UPMC Shadyside is part of UPMC's flagship medical entity and is located in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood, with 520 beds and nearly 1,000 primary care physicians. Founded in as

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3584-453: Is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is physically conjoined to the medical school's primary facility, Scaife Hall . UPMC Presbyterian is also connected via enclosed pedestrian bridges and tunnels to UPMC Montefiore hospital, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, the Eye & Ear Institute, Falk Clinic, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing 's Victoria Hall,

3696-485: Is also one of only eight children's hospitals in the United States to be named as a Leapfrog Top Hospital and was ranked sixth in the nation by Parents magazine. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is a specialty hospital of UPMC, specializing in pediatrics and is located two and a half miles from UPMC Presbyterian in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Serving as UPMC's primary pediatrics facility, it

3808-965: Is an innovation and commercialization arm of UPMC which has invested over $ 700   million in about 80 different ventures in the past twenty years. It seeks to create products and business arising from translational science and technology solutions by collaborating with entrepreneurs. In the past, it has also forged collaborations with companies such as dbMotion ) and strategic and commercial product development partnerships with companies such as IBM and Alcatel-Lucent . UPMC Enterprises portfolio includes such companies as ALung, and Prodiogo Solutions. UPMC currently operates 40 academic, community, and specialty hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds, 600 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors' offices, and outpatient sites; over 50 cancer center locations; more than 70 facilities for physical, occupational, speech and specialty therapies; and 20 retirement and long-term care sites. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside

3920-687: Is building a €210   million Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center in Carini near Palermo. In June 2019, UPMC signed a deal with the Wanda Group to develop and operate five private hospitals in major Chinese cities. The first hospital, the Chengdu Wanda-UPMC International Hospital, is expected to open in 2022. The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies ( Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, or ISMETT )

4032-501: Is categorized in four distinct groups: 1. academic hospitals that provide comprehensive clinical services and specialty services and that are the primary academic and teaching centers; 2. community hospitals that provide core clinical services to suburban populations; 3. regional hospitals that provide clinical core services to broader areas of the Western Pennsylvania region; and 4. pre- and post-acute care capabilities that include

4144-1103: Is famous for her contributions to enzyme kinetics , leading orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine expert Freddie Fu , pioneering immunologist Niels Kaj Jerne , noted forensic pathologist and Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht , Vitamin C 's discoverer Charles Glen King , pediatrician Jack Paradise , leading head and neck cancer surgeon and otolaryngologist Eugene Nicholas Myers , laparoscopic liver resection pioneer David Geller , breast cancer treatment pioneer Bernard Fisher , and virologists Patrick Moore and Yuan Chang , who co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus . UPMC has provided care to many celebrities, including Pennsylvania two-term governor and 1992 Presidential candidate Robert P. Casey for cancer, 10,000 Maniacs guitarist and founder Robert Buck for liver disease, sportscaster Bob Prince , publisher William Block , MCI CEO William G. McGowan , transplant recipient Stormie Jones and Pittsburgh mayors Bob O'Connor for lymphoma and Richard Caliguiri for amyloidosis. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger

4256-672: Is located in Palermo , Italy , and serves the region of Sicily and the Mediterranean as a hospital designed exclusively for transplants and treatment of end-stage organ failure. ISMETT is a joint public-private partnership between the Region of Sicily, through Civico and Cervello hospitals in Palermo, and UPMC, which manages and operates the facility. It is also a center for research in regenerative medicine and various international collaborations including

4368-474: Is located in the Oakland neighborhood and is situated between Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Much of UPMC's laboratory testing is performed within the CLB. An extensive pneumatic tube system connects the CLB with UPMC hospitals that are in the Oakland neighborhood (Presbyterian, Magee-Womens, Montefiore) to facilitate the transport of specimens from the hospitals to the laboratories. UPMC Shadyside

4480-508: Is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh near UPMC Presbyterian, a location it has been at since its fourth year in 1915. The hospital merged with UPMC in 1999. It currently is equipped with 360 beds, an emergency room and ambulatory facilities on four floors which allows it to offer all possible services under one roof including family medicine physicians, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, rheumatologists, pulmonary specialists, orthopedists, urologists and neurologists. Magee-Womens has

4592-580: Is part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the only hospital in Southwestern Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the care of infants, children, teens and young adults well into their 20s and beyond, generally stopping around age 26. UPMC Children's also sometimes even treats older adults that require pediatric care. Care is provided by more than 700 board-certified pediatricians and pediatric specialists. Children's also provides primary care and specialty care at over 30 locations throughout

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4704-607: The Catholic Church following its merger with UPMC in January 2008. The UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center , formerly UPMC South Side hospital, is a 209,000-square-foot (19,400 m) urgent care and outpatient facility serving the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is one of several UPMC outpatient medical facilities serving various communities throughout the region. UPMC Altoona , located in Altoona, Pennsylvania ,

4816-458: The Graduate School of Public Health ; (2) Presbyterian, Woman's, Children's, Eye and Ear, and Magee Hospitals; and (3) Falk Clinic, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Child Guidance Center, Salk Hall , and Central Blood Bank. Through the years, the university and the hospitals moved toward an ever-tightening alliance. In 1965, the university, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic which

4928-477: The North Side , with a tract of land on its campus for construction of a new hospital which broke ground in 1930 and was subsequently opened in 1938. By the end of the 1930s, the University of Pittsburgh had helped to form the "University Medical Center" which included Falk Clinic, Children's , Eye and Ear, Libby Steele Magee, Presbyterian, and Women's Hospital, as well as the planned Municipal Hospital. Through

5040-431: The North Side , with a tract of land on its campus for construction of a new hospital which broke ground in 1930 and was subsequently opened in 1938. By the end of the 1930s, the University of Pittsburgh had helped to form the "University Medical Center" which included Falk Clinic, Children's , Eye and Ear, Libby Steele Magee, Presbyterian General, and Women's Hospital, as well as the planned Municipal Hospital. In 1949,

5152-452: The Pittsburgh region, as well as clinical specialty services throughout western Pennsylvania at regional health care facilities. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was one of only eight pediatric hospitals in the United States to make U.S. News & World Report 's 2010-11 Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll and is ranked in all ten of the specialties evaluated by US News . Children's

5264-545: The University of Pittsburgh 's (Pitt) Lothrop Hall student residence, and multiple university biomedical science towers. Despite the name, UPMC Presbyterian has no affiliation with the Presbyterian Church , aside from the founder being the wife of a Presbyterian minister. UPMC Presbyterian dates back to the early ideas of Louise Wotring Lyle, the wife of a local Presbyterian minister, Joseph Lyle. Lyle had attended medical school years earlier, but failed out due to

5376-522: The University of Pittsburgh 's and UPMC's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine . UPMC Kildare Hospital is a 39-bed private hospital located in County Kildare , Ireland (founded in 1985 as Clane General Hospital ). UPMC acquired the hospital in November 2019 in partnership with the Institute of Eye Surgery. UPMC Presbyterian UPMC Presbyterian , often referred to locally as Presby ,

5488-483: The University of Pittsburgh . Already having worked out informal agreements for teaching and staffing privileges with a number of local hospitals, Pitt and its School of Medicine desired to establish an academic medical center , and by the mid-1920s had formed a plan with a coalition of city hospitals to have them relocate to the Oakland neighborhood of the city that the university had itself moved to in 1909. The university provided Presbyterian Hospital, then located on

5600-410: The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center health system and is the flagship hospital of the system. UPMC Presbyterian also features a state verified Level 1 Trauma Center , 1 of 3 in Pittsburgh. Although UPMC Presbyterian has no pediatric services, Presby has the equipment to stabilize and transfer pediatric emergency cases to the nearby UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh . UPMC Presbyterian

5712-489: The #13 best hospital nationwide on the U.S. News & World Report: Best Hospitals Honor Roll. In addition, seven of Presby's specialties were ranked nationally. In 2011, the hospital was listed among Becker's Hospital Review 50 Best Hospitals in America. UPMC Presbyterian was ranked nationally in 14 adult specialties and high performing in one on the 2012-13 U.S. News & World Report: Best Hospital rankings. In addition,

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5824-400: The 1990s the name of the hospital was changed from Presbyterian-University Hospital to Presbyterian University Hospital because hospital CEO, Jeffrey Romoff wanted a more unified branding after the merger with nearby Montefiore Hospital. In January 2001, American Nobel Prize laureate, Herbert A. Simon underwent surgery at UPMC Presbyterian to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen. Although

5936-527: The 2020-21 U.S. News & World Report : Best Hospitals rankings. In 2017 it was discovered that five patients have died from mold infections since October 2014. UPMC suspended all of their transplants while investigating what was causing the deaths. An investigation into the deaths revealed that mold was found in linens on patient beds. These linens were found to have come from Paris Healthcare Linens, UPMC's linen provider. UPMC then hired investigators to test hospital sites and Paris Linen facilities. The mold

6048-411: The Eye & Ear Institute, Falk Clinic, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing 's Victoria Hall, the University of Pittsburgh 's Lothrop Hall student residence, and multiple university biomedical science towers. In 1987, the hospital was named as one of the country's 64 best hospitals in the widely published book, "The Best Hospitals in America." In 2005, UPMC Presbyterian was ranked as

6160-882: The Fitness and Conditioning Center. The UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, opened in 2015 in Cranberry Township , is a 185,000 square feet (17,200 m) contains both a comprehensive outpatient facility for UPMC Sports Medicine and the primary training facilities for the NHL 's Pittsburgh Penguins , and the secondary venue for their ECHL affiliate, the Wheeling Nailers . The outpatient clinic includes orthopedic, primary care, physical therapy, concussion, imaging, and sports performance services. The training facility includes two-full-sized ice rinks, training and locker rooms, video review facility, and executive offices. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh , (CHP), popularly known simply as "Children’s",

6272-578: The Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital, it changed its name to that of the neighborhood of Shadyside on May 12, 1938. Shadyside agreed to be bought by UPMC on June 5, 1996. UPMC Shadyside is home to the Hillman Cancer Center, home of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. The UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, formerly titled the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is a National Cancer Institute designated cancer center and

6384-436: The Presbyterian building in 2013. The façade to Presbyterian now just consists of the renovated old bridge between Presbyterian and Children's which was completed in 2016 at a cost of $ 28.7 million. In 2013, UPMC Presbyterian finished construction on their new rooftop helipad for critical transports. The need for the new helipad came from the fact that the previous helipad was located on the old Children's Hospital tower which

6496-543: The Tri-State Health System and established a for-profit health insurance division, UPMC Health Plan, which contracted with these hospitals. In 1996, UPMC had moved to acquire South Side , Aliquippa and Braddock hospitals. Meanwhile, UPMC began to merge with several of the already affiliated Tri-State hospitals including St. Margaret Memorial , Shadyside, and Passavant hospitals in 1997 and Magee-Womens Hospital in 1998. The acquisition and mergers of hospitals morphed

6608-521: The Tri-State Health System into a consolidation of hospitals that currently makes up a significant portion of the UPMC health system. Due to its immense growth of the medical center, as well as the university's concerns regarding the financial risks associated with its faculty practice plans in the face of national changes in health care reimbursements, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC restructured their relationship and legally separated in 1998 thus launching UPMC as an independent nonprofit corporation with

6720-529: The UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital that also serves as the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas Detre Hall. These facilities are all located on the western side of the University of Pittsburgh 's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The hospitals are also physically connected to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 's Scaife Hall, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing 's Victoria Hall, Falk Clinic, three of

6832-506: The UPMC system. UPMC Mercy is a 495-bed teaching and Level 1 trauma hospital located in the Bluff neighborhood adjacent to downtown and less than two miles (3   km) from UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland. Mercy was the first chartered hospital in the city of Pittsburgh and was the first hospital in the world to have been established by the Sisters of Mercy . Mercy has retained its affiliation with

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6944-418: The UPMC system. Washington Health System merged with UPMC in 2024. UPMC now operates over 35 academic, community, and specialty hospitals in Pennsylvania and New York, as well as over 600 outpatient sites and doctors' offices, more than 50 facilities for physical, occupational, speech and specialty therapies, and 14 retirement and long-term care site, along with its international and for-profit ventures. Among

7056-400: The UPMC system. In June 2008, UPMC announced it would close and consolidate UPMC South Side with UPMC Mercy , which is less than two miles (3 km) away, and was undergoing $ 75-$ 90 million in expansions to its campus. South Side ended its hospital designation on June 30, 2009, when the emergency department closed its doors, transferring patients to UPMC Mercy. UPMC South Side reopened as

7168-487: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and serves as a main teaching hospital for psychiatry, psychology, and social work trainees. With nearly 400 inpatient psychiatric beds and more than 50 ambulatory programs, it is one of the largest behavioral health care providers affiliated with an academic medical center in the country. A fatal shooting incident occurred at Western Psychiatric's Thomas Detre Hall on March 8, 2012. 30-year-old John Shick,

7280-511: The University of Pittsburgh, the community at-large, and individuals historically involved in the governance of its system's hospitals. UPMC is composed of three major operating components: Provider Services, Insurance Services, and International and Commercial Services. The latter two divisions include the for-profit health insurance company (UPMC Health Plan) and a for-profit International and Commercial Services Division that seeks to bring health care, management, and technologies to market throughout

7392-540: The adjacent neighborhood of Shadyside approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Oakland-based hospitals and are connected by regular shuttle service. Also operating under UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex , located less than 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Oakland-based facilities on Pittsburgh's South Side . Taken together, the facilities contain over 1,600 beds making it

7504-567: The conversion of its flagship facility into the new Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC converted St. Francis' hospital in Cranberry into a satellite campus of UPMC Passavant. In 2010, a seven-story 188,000 square foot patient pavilion was opened on the McCandless campus bringing total beds there to 399. UPMC Harrisburg is a 409-bed urban, teaching hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , serving as

7616-621: The development of cancer centers in the United Kingdom, is providing consultation services and developing a network of co-managed hospitals in China, and, with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine , implemented a U.S.-style resident training program in Japan . UPMC is also a partner with the University of Pittsburgh and the governments of Italy and the region of Sicily in Fondazione Ri.Med, which

7728-585: The flagship of the UPMC Cancer Centers network. Founded in 1985 at the University of Pittsburgh, the center is located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is connected to UPMC Shadyside via a pedestrian bridge. UPMC has two major facilities which are contained UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside's sports medicine operations. The UPMC Rooney Sports Complex is a multipurpose, multisport training , sports science , and sports medical complex located along

7840-603: The following acute care community hospitals dedicated to specific missions within their particular communities. Internationally, UPMC operates a transplant hospital in Italy ( ISMETT ), two hospitals and two cancer centers in Ireland, a cancer center in Rome and previously helped to establish an emergency medical system in Qatar. UPMC also implemented information technology solutions and assisting with

7952-646: The fourth largest hospital in the United States. UPMC Presbyterian is the historic and academic center of UPMC and is physically attached to the primary facility of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine , Scaife Hall . Located in Oakland, the hospital has 792 beds and includes a Level I Trauma Center . Listed among Becker's Hospital Review 50 Best Hospitals in America, UPMC Presbyterian's specialties include organ transplantation , cardiology , trauma , gastroenterology , and neurosurgery . The School of Medicine uses UPMC Presbyterian for research and graduate programs. UPMC Montefiore, part of UPMC Presbyterian,

8064-474: The friction between technology and healthcare workers. In May 2021, UPMC announced that the new date for construction would be near the end of 2022 due to a mixture of both the COVID-19 pandemic and labor shortages. In December 2021, UPMC announced that they had bought another section of land adjacent to the site and started meeting with local community and planning boards with the hope to begin construction on

8176-518: The hospital was ranked as #10 in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital has received the "America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Prostate Surgery Award" from Healthgrades for 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2019, the hospital was named to the "100 great hospitals in America" list by medical publication Becker's Hospital Review. In 2019 and 2020, UPMC Presbyterian received an A grade from The Leapfrog Group's Fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grade. The hospital again received an A grade on

8288-419: The hospital was recognized by Human Rights Campaign Foundation as a "Top Performer" in their forward thinking LGBTQ policies and initiatives. In July 2020 the publication, Newsweek ranked UPMC Presbyterian as #33 on their list of the world's best hospitals. The hospital, ranked together with UPMC Shadyside, ranked nationally in 11 adult specialties and as #2 in Pennsylvania (after Penn Presbyterian ) on

8400-765: The largest insurer in Western Pennsylvania. It is also ranked as one of the top commercial health plans in the United States according to U.S. News & World Report . Also included in the Health Services Division are LifeSolutions, an employee assistance program; EBenefits Solutions, a web-based human resources consulting and benefits administration services; and Askesis Development Group, a software development group for behavioral health care. UPMC's International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD) actively manages UPMC's for-profit companies that seek to commercialize its expertise in health care, advanced technologies, and management skills to global markets. Its stated goal

8512-452: The mid-1920s had formed a plan with a coalition of city hospitals to have them relocate to the Oakland neighborhood of the city that the university had itself moved to in 1909. On November 1, 1926, Children's became the first hospital in the Oakland neighborhood on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, with Presbyterian Hospital making plans to occupy the adjacent site. The university provided Presbyterian Hospital, then located on

8624-540: The more renowned individuals who have worked with the University of Pittsburgh's medical center through its history are Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine while at the University of Pittsburgh, pediatric psychoanalyst Benjamin Spock , Peter Safar who pioneered CPR and the world's first intensive care training program at the medical center, and surgeon Thomas Starzl who perfected organ transplantation there. Other notable doctors include pathologist Maud Menten who

8736-585: The nation. Beginning in 1986, members of the University Health Center including Presbyterian University Hospital, Falk Clinic, the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Eye & Ear Hospital began to consolidate. The consolidated group, re-termed the Medical and Health Care Division (MHCD) and led by Detre, became closely linked administratively, although Presbyterian University Hospital remained

8848-509: The new hospital by the end of 2022. In June 2022, UPMC broke ground on the structure. The structure is currently known as the "New UPMC Presbyterian." Since UPMC Presbyterian is a teaching hospital, it is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is physically conjoined to the medical school's primary facility, Scaife Hall . UPMC Presbyterian is also connected via enclosed pedestrian bridges and tunnels to UPMC Montefiore hospital, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital,

8960-430: The other two Pittsburgh trauma centers. In the aftermath of the shooting, United States President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump travelled to Pittsburgh to visit the injured police officers, victims, and medics at the hospital. During the ongoing 2020 COVID-19 pandemic , UPMC Presbyterian (as with all UPMC Hospitals) limited their visiting policies and introduced updated visiting guidelines to help stop

9072-489: The prejudice of male administrators. Lyle (along with other prominent females) founded the Women's Medical College of Cincinnati, later graduating with her MD from the college, she returned to Pittsburgh to open up a Presbyterian-based hospital. As Lyle was working with limited funds, she had founded the hospital with only five dollars and a line of credit UPMC Presbyterian was founded as Presbyterian Hospital in 1893 by Lyle in what

9184-517: The primary referral hospital for the UPMC Central PA system which comprises seven hospitals and additional clinics serving south central and southeastern Pennsylvania . UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport is a 224-bed tertiary hospital in Williamsport, Pennsylvania , serving as the primary referral hospital of the six hospital UPMC Susquehanna system serving north central Pennsylvania. UPMC operates

9296-430: The psychiatric institute to become one of the largest recipients of National Institute of Health funding, Detre assumed leadership overseeing all six of the university's schools of health sciences in the early 1980s. Implementing the same administrative model in those units, the collective schools of the health sciences and medical center were ultimately transformed into one of the largest centers for biomedical research in

9408-467: The region's largest hospital dedicated to one specialty. The addition will add 900,000 square feet to space on the UPMC Presbyterian campus, without adding any beds overall. Patient care units at Presbyterian will be converted to offices. UPMC has also announced that they would be partnering with technology firm Microsoft to build the hospitals, integrating technology into the design to help reduce

9520-531: The residents of Pittsburgh 's South Side neighborhood. UPMC Outpatient Center operates according to the directives established by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and will not provide or permit medical procedures that are contrary to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Founded in 1892 as South Side Hospital, the facility quickly grew from a 30 beds located inside

9632-554: The shooter, were killed during the incident. Shick was reported to have a history of mental illness and had behaved erratically in the weeks before the shooting. Handwritten messages complaining about his medical treatment and the evils of "corporate America," floor plans and blueprints of Thomas Detre Hall, and supplies for making Molotov cocktails were found in his apartment after the shooting. In 2018, UPMC announced it would be constructing 3 additional specialty hospitals in Pittsburgh:

9744-584: The shore of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh and is unique in that it combines training facilities for the University of Pittsburgh football team and the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team in one location with an academically based sports science and medicine program. The complex consists of four centers which include the Center for Sports Medicine, Sports Training Center, Indoor Training Center, and

9856-475: The spread of the virus through hospital visits. In the wake of the pandemic, the University of Pittsburgh announced that the student dormitory, Lothrop Hall would be opened to house doctors and other healthcare providers from UPMC Presbyterian and nearby hospital, UPMC Montefiore. Later that year in July 2020, UPMC Presbyterian had to shut down one of its patient care units after multiple staff tested positive from

9968-480: The spring 2020 Hospital Safety Grade. As of 2020, UPMC Presbyterian has placed nationally in 11 ranked specialties and is "high performing" in 3 specialties on the U.S. News & World Report. In the 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, UPMC Presbyterian ranked as the 15 best hospital in the United States with rankings in 11 of their specialties. In 2020 UPMC Presbyterian was awarded two Women's Choice Awards as top 6% in orthopedics and top 1% in cancer care. In 2020

10080-541: The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association . In the 1970s, a new model of administration, in which clinical revenues were invested into research, was implemented at Western Psychiatric under the leadership of Thomas Detre . After guiding the psychiatric institute to become one of the largest recipients of National Institute of Health funding, Detre assumed leadership overseeing all six of

10192-423: The surgery was successful, Simon later succumbed to the complications that followed. The old Children's Hospital location was closed on May 2, 2009, when the hospital moved to the new location in the Lawrenceville neighborhood . The original children's building was demolished in 2011 and the main tower with the helipad remained standing (as Presbyterian South) until the helipad and laboratories could move over to

10304-625: The surgical and ambulatory facilities. 10,000 births are performed at Magee each year, which accounts for 45 percent of all births in Allegheny County . The hospital is built on the grounds of the home of legendary Pittsburgh political boss Christopher Magee and named in honor of his mother, Elizabeth Steel Magee. UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital is one of the nation's largest and most renowned university-affiliated psychiatric hospitals and serves as UPMC's primary psychiatric facility. For more than 60 years, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital has been

10416-437: The surgical/intensive care unit at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, received the first dose of the vaccine in Pennsylvania. In September 2018, UPMC unveiled plans to create a new 900,000 square-foot hospital, UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital at UPMC Presbyterian on the site of the former Children's Hospital. When the project was first announced in 2018 it was set that the hospital would open by 2023, however UPMC has extended

10528-482: The timeline by two years with the new estimated open being 2025. The new 18-story inpatient building is projected to open in 2025 and will include 620 all private patient rooms. The hospital is still scheduled to open in 2025 and plans for construction have not been impacted by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The hospital is designed to highlight the world-famous transplant program at UPMC, made famous by pioneer, Dr. Thomas Starzl . UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital will

10640-536: The unit, moving patients from the unit to others in the hospital while a deep cleaning took place. UPMC Presbyterian also leads all hospitals in Western Pennsylvania in COVID-19 clinical trials and new drug therapies, and has the most in federal aid to help find drugs and fund clinical trials. On December 14, the first doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania were issued to healthcare workers. Charmaine Pykosh, an acute care nurse in

10752-616: The university and its Schools of the Health Sciences including via the existence of mutual board memberships and subsidization of the university's academic programs. Under a collaborative and coordinated decision-making model, UPMC oversees all clinical activity, including a consolidated physicians' practice plan consisting of university faculty, while the University of Pittsburgh remains the guardian of all academic priorities, particularly faculty-based research. UPMC's 24-member Board of Directors equally splits representation between three groups:

10864-420: The university identified as a supported organization in its articles of incorporation. The university consolidated its physicians' practice plans and transferred them, along with the university's hospital management functions, to UPMC, with UPMC providing ongoing financial support to the university and its academic missions in return. The result was a mutually exclusive partnership of close affiliation formalized by

10976-592: The university's biomedical science towers, and the university's Lothrop Hall dormitory, all of which are surrounded by a variety of other academic facilities. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside also encompasses the UPMC Shadyside hospital campus which includes the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute in the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center which are located near the university's Centre Plaza Apartments student housing. The UPMC Shadyside facilities are located in

11088-433: The university's schools of health sciences in the early 1980s. Implementing the same administrative model in those units, the collective schools of the health sciences and medical center were ultimately transformed into one of the largest centers for biomedical research in the nation. In the 1970s, the name of the hospital was changed to Presbyterian-University Hospital to reflect the increased academic affiliation. In 1981,

11200-483: The world's' first simultaneous heart and liver organ transplant on six-year-old Stormie Jones at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. During his tenure, Starzl also pioneered the use of a new anti-rejection drug called tacrolimus . Starzl was the head of transplantation at the hospital until 1991 when he stepped down from clinical and surgical duties and shifted all of his focus to research. On September 9, 1984,

11312-575: The world. UPMC is the largest employer in the state of Pennsylvania. UPMC's Provider Services consists of an array of clinical capabilities that includes hospitals, specialty service lines (including transplantation, behavioral health, cancer care, children's health, women's health, and rehabilitation services among other centers, institutes, and services), contract services ( emergency medicine , pharmacy , and laboratory ), supporting foundations, captive insurance programs, and approximately 3,600 employed physicians with associated practices. Hospital activity

11424-465: The years, the university and the hospitals moved toward an ever-tightening alliance. In 1965, the university, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic which was managed by the School of Medicine, Presbyterian-University, Magee and Women's , Eye and Ear, and Children's Hospitals incorporated the University Health Center of Pittsburgh (UHCP). In 1969, Montefiore Hospital joined UHCP. In 1947, Jonas Salk took

11536-490: Was broken in 1982, and in January 1986 a new tower called the "Main Tower" was opened at the neighboring Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The opening was delayed after a slight issue led to a leaking pipe, damaging the lobby at Presbyterian. The Main Tower had a rooftop heliport with connections to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital that were accessed through multiple floors. While the tower belonged to Children's, its radiology department

11648-610: Was found in all areas of Paris and found on linens at UPMC Presbyterian. Multiple wrongful death lawsuits were filed against the hospital and UPMC has settled in few of them. UPMC continues to contract with Paris in 22 out of 25 of their hospitals. Paris was also implicated in the lawsuits and has settled out of court with the plaintiffs. UPMC has published two peer-reviewed reports on the Mucorales contamination of healthcare linens at other major U.S. hospitals as well as describing interventions to remediate linen contamination of Mucorales in

11760-501: Was founded as Montefiore Hospital in 1908 by the Ladies Hospital Aid Society as a hospital for Jewish physicians and patients. Montefiore Hospital affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1957 and joined UPMC in 1990. It is the home to the clinical transplantation facilities originally headed by transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl and is physically connected to UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Eye and Ear by

11872-503: Was founded in 1881 and officially became part of UPMC in 2011. UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital is a five-story, 165,000 square-foot, 93-bed stand-alone hospital that opened in 2011. The hospital houses obstetrics, neonatology, and gynecology specialities of UPMC Hamot and includes a Level III neonatal intensive care unit. As of October 2013, it also houses the Pediatrics wing of UPMC Hamot . UPMC Kane, formerly known as Kane Community Hospital,

11984-420: Was managed by the School of Medicine, Presbyterian-University, Magee and Women's, Eye and Ear, and Children's Hospitals incorporated the University Health Center of Pittsburgh (UHCP). In 1969, Montefiore Hospital joined UHCP. In the 1970s, a new model of administration, in which clinical revenues were invested into research, was implemented at Western Psychiatric under the leadership of Thomas Detre . After guiding

12096-591: Was originally located adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland. Children's is one of four children's hospitals in the state, and its emergency department is one of only two Level I Pediatric Trauma Centers. More than 500,000 infants, children, and adolescents make trips to the hospital every year. Children's ranks in nine of the 10 pediatric subspecialties in the prestigious U.S. News & World Report annual Honor Roll of America's Best Children's Hospitals for 2018–2019. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh boasts 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m) and has 415 beds, with

12208-408: Was rushed to UPMC Mercy after his 2006 motorcycle crash and NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. , was treated for concussions in 2012., Pittsburgh Steelers running back, James Conner was treated at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center The golfer Arnold Palmer , a native of Latrobe, Pennsylvania , died at UPMC Shadyside on September 25, 2016. In 2017, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimović traveled to

12320-469: Was scheduled to be demolished. The helipad is operated by Stat Medevac , a Pittsburgh-based emergency transport organization who also maintains a dispatch center at UPMC Presbyterian. In 2017 UPMC Presbyterian chair of orthopedics, Freddie Fu performed a repair to European soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic's knee after Ibrahimovic tore his ACL during a game. The next year, in June 2018, American model and Miss USA 1971 winner, Michele McDonald underwent

12432-415: Was shared by Children's and Presbyterian Hospital. In 1986, Presbyterian merged with the nearby Montefiore Hospital to create the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, later changing the name to UPMC Presbyterian. Under Starzl, by 1988 Presbyterian Hospital had grown to have one of the world's largest transplant programs with more than half of the worlds' transplants taking place at Presbyterian. In

12544-530: Was then the town of Allegheny , which became the north side of Pittsburgh in 1907, when it was annexed by the city. Two years later, Lyle founded the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, which later became the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing . In 1910 the hospital moved to a new location near the original. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine then worked out informal agreements for teaching and staffing privileges with

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