The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ( UPMC ) is a $ 16 billion integrated global healthcare company with 80,000 employees, over 35 hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds , 600 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors offices, 3.4 million member health insurance divisions, as well as commercial and international businesses. It is closely affiliated with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh. It is considered a leading American healthcare provider, as its flagship facility is ranked in US News & amp; World Report "Honor Roll" from about 15 to 20 best hospitals in America for over 15 years. By 2016, UPMC is ranked 12th nationally among the best hospitals (and second in Pennsylvania) by US News & amp; World Report and ranked in 15 of 16 specific areas when including Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC. This does not include the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh from UPMC which ranks the top 10 pediatric centers in separate US News .
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Origins
UPMC took root in 1893 the establishment of the Presbyterian Hospital, which served as a major medical center facility, and 1886 founder of Western Pennsylvania Medical College. Soon after its founding, the medical college was affiliated with the University of Western Pennsylvania in 1892, and in 1908, fully integrated into the university which in the same year was renamed the University of Pittsburgh. After establishing informal agreements to teach and grant privileged staff with a number of local hospitals, Pitt and his Medical Faculty wanted to establish an academic medical center, and by the mid-1920s had formed a plan with a municipal hospital coalition to have them move into the city's Oakland neighborhood the university itself moved to in 1909. The University provided the Presbyterian Hospital, then located on the North Side, with a plot of land on its campus for the construction of a new hospital that demolished 1930 and then opened in 1938. In the late 1930s, the University of Pittsburgh has helped shape the "University Medical Center" which includes the Falk Clinic, Children, Eyes and Ears, Libby Steele Magee, Presbyterian General, and Women's Hospital, as well as the planned City Hospital. In 1949, a new affiliation agreement between the University and the Presbyterian Hospital formed a three-tiered mission of patient care, research, and education and in 1951, the name of the hospital changed to Presbyterian University Hospital to reflect its close relationship with the University of Pittsburgh. In 1958, "University of Pittsburgh Health Center" was recorded to consist of (1) School of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Graduate School of Public Health; (2) Presbyterian, Woman, Children, Eyes and Ears, and Magee Hospital; and (3) Falk Clinic, Western Psychiatry Institute and Clinic, Child Guidance Center, Salk Hall, and Central Darah Bank. Over the years, Universities and hospitals are moving towards an ever-tight alliance. In 1965, the University, the Western Psychiatric Institute and the Clinic managed by the School of Medicine, Presbyterian-University, Magee and Women's, Eye and Ear, and Children's Hospital were incorporated in the University of Pittsburgh (UHCP) Health Center. In 1969, Montefiore Hospital joined UHCP. In the 1970s, a new administrative model, in which clinical income was invested into research, was carried out in the Western Psychiatrist under the leadership of Thomas Detre. After guiding the psychiatric institution to become one of the largest beneficiaries of the National Institute of Health funding, Detre assumes leadership overseeing all six faculties of the University's health sciences in the early 1980s. By applying the same administrative model in the units, the collective schools of health sciences and medical centers eventually transformed into one of the largest biomedical research centers in the country.
Merge and expansion
Starting in 1986, members of the University Health Center included Presbyterian University Hospital, Falk Clinic, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Eye & amp; Ear Hospital began to consolidate. The consolidated group, called the Medical and Health Care Division (MHCD) and headed by Detre, became closely related administratively, although Presbyterian University Hospital remains a separate entity. In 1990, MHCD acquired an adjacent Montefiore Hospital that joined the Presbyterian University Hospital to form an entity that was later renamed "University of Pittsburgh Medical Center" (shortened to UPMC), which is the first time the name of the medical center today. officially used. UPMC then began forming a network of specialized hospitals and affiliated communities in 1994 called Tri-State Health Systems and established a non-profit health insurance division, the UPMC Health Plan, which was contracted with these hospitals. In 1996, UPMC has moved to acquire South Side hospitals, Aliquippa and Braddock. In the meantime, UPMC began to join some of the affiliated Tri-State hospitals including St. Margaret Memorial, Shadyside and Passavant hospitals in 1997 and Magee-Womens Hospital in 1998. Hospital acquisitions and mergers are transformed into Tri-State Health Systems in hospital consolidation which is currently a significant part of the UPMC health system. Due to the enormous growth of the medical center, as well as the University's concern about the financial risks associated with its faculty practice plan in the face of national change in health care reimbursement, the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC restructured their relationship and were legally separated 1998 to launch UPMC as an independent nonprofit. The University consolidates its doctor's practice plan and transfers it, along with the university's management function, to UPMC, with UPMC providing continuous financial support to the University and its academic mission in return. The result is a mutually exclusive partnership of close affiliates formalized by a series of interlinked agreements and joint supervision of the executive, which includes the sharing of many council members. This creates a collaborative and coordinated decision model in which UPMC oversees all clinical activities, while the University of Pittsburgh remains the keeper of all academic priorities, especially faculty-based research.
The UPMC expansion continued in 2001 when the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital began to join UPMC. Since then, UPMC's growth has continued, including merger with Mercy Hospital in 2008; opening of new Children's Hospital facilities in 2009; the integration 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 continuous expansion of overseas operations and non-profit business ventures. In October 2016, Susquehanna Health, a four-hospital system in northern central Pennsylvania, became the first domestic hospital outside Western Pennsylvania to join the UPMC system. Subsequently, UPMC Susquehanna joined two additional community hospitals in October of the following year. In December 2016, Jamestown WCA Hospital, New York became the first New York hospital in the UPMC system. In September 2017, Pinnacle Health, a seven-hospital system in South Central Pennsylvania, joined UPMC and co-opted to join Hanover Hospital. Memorial Cole Hospital partnered with UPMC Susquehanna and joined UPMC system in March 2018. UPMC now operates more than 35 academic, community and special hospitals in Pennsylvania and New York, as well as over 600 outpatient locations and doctors offices, more than 50 facilities for physical therapy, occupation, speech and specialization, and 14 long-term pensions and care, along with international and non-profit businesses.
Well-known doctors and researchers
Among the more well-known individuals who have worked with the University of Pittsburgh medical center through its history is Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine while at the University of Pittsburgh, pediatric psychoanalyst Benjamin Spock, Peter Safar who pioneered CPR and the first intensive care training in the world. a program at the medical center, and Thomas Starzl surgeon who perfected an organ transplant there. Other notable doctors include the Maolog Menten pathologist famous for his contributions to enzyme kinetic, prominent orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine expert Freddie Fu, pioneering immunologist Niels Kaj Jerne, noted forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, inventor of Vitamin C Charles Glen King, pediatrician Jack Paradise, renowned head and neck surgeon and otolaryngologist Eugene Nicholas Myers, pioneer of laparoscopic heart resection David Geller, breast cancer treatment pioneer Bernard Fisher, and virologist Patrick Moore and Yuan Chang, who together discovered Kaposi's herpes-related sarcoma virus.
Famous patient
UPMC has paid attention to many celebrities, including two-month Pennsylvania governor and 1992 presidential candidate Robert P. Casey for cancer, 10,000 guitarist Maniacs and founder Robert Buck for liver disease, Bob Prince sports broadcaster, publisher William Block, MCI CEO William G. McGowan, transplant recipients, Stormie Jones, and Pittsburgh mayor Bob O'Connor for lymphoma and Richard Caliguiri for amyloidosis. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was rushed to Mercy UPMC after his motorcycle crash in 2006 and NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was treated for a concussion in 2012. Legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, Latrobe native, PA dies at UPMC on September 25, 2016. 2017, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovi? went to UPMC to undergo surgery to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament.
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Operation
Administratively headquartered on the top five floors of the US Steel Tower at the Pittsburgh Central Business Center, UPMC operates as a fully integrated and integrated healthcare providers system that, although legally separate from the University of Pittsburgh, remains closely affiliated with universities and the School of Health Sciences including membership of councils and subsidized university academic programs. Under a coordinated and coordinated model of decision making, UPMC oversees all clinical activities, including a joint doctor's practice plan composed of university faculty, while the University of Pittsburgh remains the guardian of all academic priorities, especially faculty-based research. The 24-member UPMC Board of Directors divides the representation between three groups: the University of Pittsburgh, the wider community, and the history of individuals involved in the organization's governance system. UPMC consists of three main operating components: Service Provider, Insurance Services, and International and Commercial Services. The next two divisions include non-profit health insurance (UPMC Health Plan) and the Nonprofit International and Commercial Services Division that seeks to bring health care, management and technology to markets worldwide. UPMC is the largest company in the state of Pennsylvania.
Provider Services Division
The UPMC Provider Service consists of a range of clinical abilities that include hospitals, special service channels (including transplantation, behavioral health, cancer care, child health, women's health, and rehabilitation services among centers, institutions and other services), contracting services (emergency drugs, pharmaceuticals, and laboratories), support foundations, captive insurance programs, and about 3,600 physicians employed with related practices. Hospital activities are categorized into four distinct groups: 1. an academic hospital that provides comprehensive clinical services and specialized services and which is the main academic and teaching center; 2. community hospitals providing core clinical services for suburban populations; 3. regional hospitals that provide core clinical services to the wider region of Western Pennsylvania; and 4. pre and post-acute care capabilities that include home health care networks (UPMC HomeCare) and a network of 15 senior living facilities (UPMC Senior Communities).
Insurance Services Division
UPMC Insurance Services, operating under the umbrella of the UPMC Health Plan brand, was established in 1998 and covers a range of nonprofit and nonprofit healthcare financing initiatives. The integrated product of the UPMC Insurance Services Division includes the UPMC Health Plan (HMO), UPMC Health Network (PPO), Partners (employee compensation and disability for employers), UPMC for Life (Medicare product), UPMC for you (HMO for Medical Recipients ), and the Community Health Care Behavioral Organizations (PPOs of non-profit health behavior for beneficiaries). These products combine to offer various 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-led health plans such as health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements. The network of UPMC providers totals over 135 hospitals and more than 11,500 doctors in the 29-county area, and has about three million members making it the largest insurance company in Western Pennsylvania. It is also classified as one of the top commercial health plans in the United States by US. News & amp; World Report . Also included in the Healthcare Division is LifeSolutions, employee assistance program; EBenefits Solutions, a web based benefit and human resource benefits consultancy service; and Askesis Development Group, the software development group for behavioral health care.
International and Corporate Division
The Commercial and Commercial Services (ICSD) Division of UPMC actively manages UPMC non-profit companies seeking to market their expertise in healthcare, advanced technology and management skills to the global marketplace. The goal is "to advance the UPMC mission to positively change the way health care is provided in the US and abroad, while revitalizing western Pennsylvania's economy." ICSD comprises operations in five areas: clinical service management, infrastructure consulting (in collaboration with companies such as dbMotion), strategic and commercial product development partnerships with companies such as IBM and Alcatel-Lucent, translation services, and national security and public health covering the Center UPMC Biosecurity is dedicated to improving the country's resilience to major biological threats.
Facilities
UPMC currently operates more than 30 academic, community and specialized hospitals with more than 7,000 licensed beds; as well as more than 600 doctors offices and outpatient sites; more than 50 cancer centers; more than 70 facilities for physical, occupational, speech, and specialty therapy; and 20 pensions and long-term care.
Main facility
The following hospitals represent the core of academic, teaching, trauma, specialization and hospitals related to UPMC research.
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
UPMC's main medical institution is UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside that serves as the main academic center of the system and is the largest in-patient acute inpatient hospital.
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside including UPMC Presbyterian hospital and UPMC Eye & amp; Ear Hospital and UPMC Montefiore as well as the Western Psychiatric Institute & amp; The clinic also functions as Thomas Detre Hall University of Pittsburgh. These facilities are all located on the west side of the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The hospital is also physically connected to Scaife Hall University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing's Victoria Hall, the Falk Clinic, three university biomedical science towers, and the Lothrop Hall university dormitory, all of which are surrounded by other academic facilities.
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside also includes UPMC Shadyside hospital campus which includes the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center located near the University Plaza Center student housing. The UPMC Shadyside facility is located in Shadyside neighborhood about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Oakland-based hospital and connected to regular shuttle service.
Also operating under UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is the UPMC Sports Performance Complex, located less than 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Oakland-based facility on South Side Pittsburgh.
Together, the facility contains more than 1,600 beds making it the fourth largest hospital in the United States.
UPMC Presbyterian Campus
Presbyterian UPMC
UPMC Presbyterian is the historic and academic center of UPMC and is physically attached to the main facility of Pittsburgh University Medical School, Scaife Hall. Located in Oakland, the hospital has 792 beds and includes Level I Trauma Center. Listed among Becker Hospitals 50 Best Hospitals in America, UPMC Presbyterian specialties include organ transplants, cardiology, trauma, gastroenterology, and neurosurgery. The School of Medicine uses Presbyterian UPMC for research and postgraduate programs.
UPMC Montefiore
UPMC Montefiore, part of Presbyterian UPMC, was established as Montefiore Hospital in 1908 by the Women Hospital Aid Society as a hospital for doctors and Jewish patients. Montefiore Hospital was affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1957 and joined UPMC in 1990. It is home to a clinical transplant facility originally led by Thomas Starzl transplant pioneer and physically connected to UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Eye and Ear by bridge series pedestrian.
UPMC Eye & amp; Institute of Ear
UPMC & amp; The Ear Institute is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh and joins the complex medical housing Presbyterian UPMC, UPMC Montefiore, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and related medical research towers. UPMC Ear & amp; The Eye Institute is one of the few centers in the country dedicated solely to the management of issues relating to otolaryngology and ophthalmology.
Clinical Laboratory Building
The UPMC Clinical Laboratory Building (CLB) was opened in 2013 and cost $ 39 million. CLB is located in the Oakland neighborhood and is located between Magee-Womens Hospital and UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Many UPMC lab tests are done inside the CLB. The extensive pneumatic tube system connects CLB to UPMC hospitals located in the Oakland (Presbyterian, Magee-Womens, Montefiore) neighborhood to facilitate the delivery of specimens from the hospital to the laboratory.
Western Psychiatric Institute & amp; UPMC Clinic
Institute of Western Psychiatry & amp; Clinic (WPIC) is one of the most renowned and affiliated university hospitals and serves as UPMC's premier psychiatric facility. Located on Thomas Detre Hall on O'Hara Street in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, this place is the University of Pittsburgh's Psychiatric Faculty of Medicine and serves as the premier educational hospital for psychiatry, psychology and social work. The hospital has 312 hospitalizations and is connected to the UPMC Presbyterian via an underground tunnel.
The fatal shooting incident took place at WPIC Thomas Detre Hall on March 8, 2012. John Shick, a 30-year-old Carleton College alumnus and former biology graduate of Duquesne University, entered the building at 1:42 pm with two semiotomatic pistols and shot six people in first floor lobby. Michael Schaab, 25, a WPIC therapist, was killed. The University of Pittsburgh police arrived just after 2 pm. and engage the Shick in a gun battle, eventually killing him. Seven people, including Pitt police officers, were wounded and two others, including gunmen, were killed in the incident. Shick is reported to have a history of mental illness and behave erratically within weeks before filming. Handwritten messages complaining about his medical care and "American corporate" crime, Thomas Detre Hall's floor plans and blueprints, and supplies for making Molotov cocktails were found in his apartment after the shootings.
UPMC Shadyside Campus
UPMC Shadyside
UPMC Shadyside is part of UPMC's main medical entity and is located in the Pittsburgh Shadyside neighborhood, with 520 beds and nearly 1,000 primary care physicians. Founded in Pittsburgh's Homeopathic Hospital, it changed its name to that of the Shadyside neighborhood on May 12, 1938. Shadyside agreed to be purchased by UPMC on June 5, 1996. UPMC Shadyside is home to Hillman Cancer Center, home of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Hillman Cancer Center
Hillman Cancer Center is home to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, the National Cancer Institute designated as a cancer center and UPMC Cancer Center. Hillman Cancer Center serves as the main treatment and research facility of the UPMC Cancer Center network. The center is located in the Shadyside neighborhood in Pittsburgh and is connected to UPMC Shadyside via a pedestrian bridge.
UPMC Sports Performance Complex
The UPMC Sports Performance Complex is a versatile multipurport, sports training, sports, and sports medical complex located along the banks of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh and unique because it incorporates training facilities for the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team. teams in one location with an academic-based sports science and medicine program. The complex consists of four centers that include the Sports Medicine Center, the Sports Training Center, the Indoor Training Center, and the Fitness and Conditioning Center.
Pittsburgh Children's Hospital of UPMC
The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is a specialized UPMC hospital specializing in paediatrics and is located two and a half miles from Presbyterian UPMC in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Serves as UPMC's primary pediatric facility, originally located adjacent to the UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland. Children are one of four children's hospitals in the state, and the emergency department is one of only two Trauma Children Center Level I. More than 500,000 babies, children and teenagers travel to the hospital every year.
The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC boasts 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m 2 ) and has 296 beds, with 41-bed emergency room and 36-bed pediatric intensive care unit. A ten-story research center was built, with seven of ten floors dedicated to child's medical research.
Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
Magee-Womens Hospital at UPMC is a specialized UPMC hospital that serves as a premier facility for women's health. Opened mainly for women on January 19, 1911, it has been offering several services for men since the 1960s. The hospital is located in an Oakland neighborhood in Pittsburgh near UPMC Presbyterian, a location that dates back to the fourth year in 1915. The hospital joined UPMC in 1999. It is now equipped with 360 beds, emergency room and ambulatory facilities in four flooring that allows it to offer all possible services under one roof including family medical doctors, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, rheumatologists, lung specialists, orthopedics, urologists and neurologists. Magee-Womens has 2,500 staff, of which 1,500 are medically licensed. It also operates a satellite hospital in the northern suburbs as part of the UPMC Passavant facility as well as nine metro area imaging clinics. In 2011 the hospital expanded its main facility completed in June 2012. The expansion added six floors, increasing the number of beds from 318 to 360 (including 14 additional intensive treatment rooms), and expanding the surgical and ambulatory facilities. 10,000 births are performed at Magee every year, which accounts for 45 percent of all births in Allegheny County.
Tertiary hospitals
The following tertiary hospitals are full-service hospitals and the main references of the UPMC system.
UPMC Mercy
UPMC Mercy is a teaching trauma hospital and Level 1 located in the Bluff neighborhood adjacent to downtown and less than two miles (3 km) from Presbyterian UPMC in Oakland. Mercy is the first hospital to be hired in the city of Pittsburgh and is the first hospital in the world founded by the Sisters of Mercy. Mercy has maintained its affiliation with the Catholic Church after a merger with UPMC in January 2008.
UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center
The UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center, formerly the UPMC South Side hospital, is a 209,000 square foot (19,400 m 2 ) emergency and outpatient facility serving the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is one of the few UPM outpatient medical facilities that serves communities across the region.
UPMC Hamot
UPMC Hamot is a 433-bed, tertiary care education center with a Level II trauma center located in Erie, Pennsylvania. Hamot offers major medical care and complements medical specialties. The hospital was founded in 1881 and officially became part of UPMC in 2011.
Magee-Womens Hospital - UPMC Hamot Campus
UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital is a self-contained five-story, 165,000-square-foot, 93-bed hospital that opened in 2011. The hospital houses neonatology and gynecology specialists from UPMC Hamot and includes a Level III neonatal intensive care unit. In October 2013, it also houses the Pediatrics wing of UPMC Hamot.
UPMC Kane
UPMC Kane, formerly known as Kane Community Hospital, is a 31 bed hospital located in Kane, Pennsylvania which became an affiliate of UPMC Hamot in November 2009. UPMC Kane is fully integrated into the UPMC network on 1 April 2017, and serves as a a direct subsidiary of UPMC Hamot.
UPMC Passavant
UPMC Passavant is a UPMC treatment hospital in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh consisting of two campuses, one in McCandless and one in Cranberry Township. Founded by Lutheran in 1849, Passavant was the first Protestant hospital to be built in the United States. In 1964, Passavant moved from the City of Pittsburgh to its location in McCandless to serve communities in northern Allegheny and southern Butler districts. Passavant joined UPMC in 1997 and in 2002, as part of UPMC's acquisition of St. Francis Medical Center for the conversion of its flagship facility to the new Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, UPMC transformed St. Francis at Cranberry became the UPMC Passavant satellite campus. In 2010, a 188,000-square-foot patient pavilion opened on the McCandless campus with a total of 399 beds there.
Acute care/community hospital
UPMC operates the following acute care hospitals dedicated to specific missions in their communities.
- UPMC Altoona, located in Altoona, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Bedford Memorial, located in Everett, Pennsylvania.
- The UPMC Chautauqua WCA, located in Jamestown, New York, is a 317-bed hospital originally mapped in 1885. It is the only domestic hospital located outside Pennsylvania to become part of the UPMC system.
- UPMC Cole located in Coudersport, Pennsylvania partnered with UPMC Susquehanna.
- UPMC East, a $ 250 million full-service hospital opened in Monroeville, Pennsylvania in July 2012.
- UPMC Horizon, which consists of the campuses of Greenville and Shenango Valley.
- UPMC Jameson, made up of Northern and Southern campuses located in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
- UPMC McKeesport, located in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
- UPMC Northwest, located in Seneca, Pennsylvania.
- Margaret UPMC, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- The Pinnacle UPMC consists of eight hospitals located in South Central Pennsylvania:
- UPMC Pinnacle Carlisle located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Pinnacle Community Osteopathic located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Pinnacle Hanover located in Hanover, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg is located in downtown Harrisburg
- UPMC Pinnacle Lititz is located in Lititz, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Pinnacle Memorial located in York, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Pinnacle West Shore is located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Susquehanna consisting of six hospitals located in northern central Pennsylvania:
- UPMC Susquehanna Divine Providence located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Susquehanna Lock Haven is located in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Susquehanna Muncy is in Muncy, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Susquehanna Soldiers Sailors located in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Susquehanna Sunbury is located in Sunbury, Pennsylvania
- UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Hospitals and international facilities
Internationally, UPMC operates a transplantation hospital in Italy (ISMETT), a hospital and two cancer centers in Ireland, a cancer center in Rome and an emergency medical system in Qatar. UPMC also implements information technology solutions and helps the development of cancer centers in the UK, will manage newly created healthcare centers in Cyprus, provide consulting services in China, and, with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is implementing a US-style population training program In Japan. In addition, UPMC announced a partnership with GE Healthcare in November 2008 to open 25 additional cancer treatment centers across Europe and the Middle East over the next ten years. UPMC also partnered with the University of Pittsburgh and the Italian government and the Sicilian region of Fondazione Ri.Med, which built the Biotechnology and Biomedical Research Center worth EUR210 million at Carini near Palermo.
ISMETT
The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, or ISMETT) are located in Palermo, Italy, and serve the Sicilian and Mediterranean areas as specially designed hospitals for transplantation and final treatment Organ-stage failure. ISMETT is a joint public-private partnership between the Sicilian Region, through Civico and Cervello hospitals in Palermo, and UPMC, which manages and operates the facility. It is also a center of research in regenerative medicine and various international collaborations including University of Pittsburgh and UPMC McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
UPMC Whitfield
UPMC Whitfield is a private 80 bed hospital located in Waterford, Ireland. UPMC, which has operated a cancer center in hospitals since 2006, acquired the hospital on May 24, 2018.
Salvator Mundi
Salvator Mundi International Hospital, a 75-bed private hospital in Rome, Italy, jointly owned by UPMC and Rome International Hospital Management Srl. UPMC owns a 50% stake in the hospital and conducts medical operations including having the responsibility to elect a medical director and chief operating officer.
Former hospital
Former UPMC hospitals include UPMC Beacon Hospital in Dublin, Ireland (2009 to 2014) acquired by Irish businessman Denis O'Brien; UPMC Braddock in Braddock, Pennsylvania (1996 to 2010) closed; UPMC South Side hospital in Pittsburgh (1996 to 2009) combined with UPMC Mercy and converted to UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center; UPMC Lee Regional in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (1998 to 2005) sold to Conemaugh Health System; and UPMC Beaver Valley in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania (1996 to 2001) were transferred back to the community council and then closed.
Community engagement
UPMC has committed to several community projects, primarily pledged $ 100 million to the Pittsburgh Pledge, a scholarship program to help students graduate from Pittsburgh Public Schools pursuing post-secondary education, and $ 525 million for the construction of new Children's Hospitals. In fiscal year 2012, UPMC donated a combined $ 622 million in benefit of the charity community. These include $ 96 million in public health programs and charitable donations to assist the stage of more than 3,000 public health improvement programs, $ 288 million for research and education support, and $ 238 million for charity care and non-replaced health care, excluding additional $ 146 million to cover Reduced Medicare reimbursement costs. Despite its 60% market share, UPMC accounts for 78% of care in low-income communities in Allegheny County and 88% of care for children living in poverty. UPMC contributes $ 887 million, or more than 15 percent of its net patient income, to community services in FY 2013, and provides more care to the least underserved areas than other health care agencies in the region.
Criticism and controversy
UPMC has been criticized for its excessive profit, monopolistic practices, excessive advertising budgets, and its focus on overseas operations at the expense of the domestic ones. In addition, various controversies have received significant local and national attention in recent years.
In 2008, the administration and reporting of UPMC's liver donor transplant program received national attention when internal studies, spearheaded by transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl, questioned the safety of procedures and eventually resulted in the forced resignation of the head of the liver transplant program, Amadeo Marcos. Another controversy emerged in May 2011 for a live donor kidney transplant program UPMC when hepatitis C-infected kidneys were transplanted into uninfected persons. The incident caused UPMC to voluntarily close its kidney transplant program for two months, resulting in a nurse's postponement and a surgeon's surge. The federal reviewers with United Network for Organ Sharing concluded human error over the error for a supervisory and corrective plan that included some redundancies instituted with the supervision of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Due to a failed live donor kidney transplant in UPMC, the Federal Organs Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) placed the UPMC transplant program on probation, a rarely used form of discipline inherited for some of the most serious transplant errors. The OPTN says it meets the discipline not just because of kidney transplant errors, but because the UPMC transplant program was found to have problems in previous communication and documentation procedures.
In April 2009, the competing West Penn Allegheny Health system filed an antitrust lawsuit against UPMC and the Highmark health insurer, which claimed a conspiracy to create a monopoly. The lawsuit was later dismissed with prejudice. West Penn Allegheny appealed this ruling. Upon appeal, the case was unanimously reversed by the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
In October 2009, UPMC's administrative decision to close UPMC Braddock hospital resulted in protests and lawsuits by community groups who denied UPMC claims that hospitals were losing money and underutilized. The facility, now destroyed in preparation for redevelopment, was closed in January 2010.
In April 2013, the UPMC has been criticized for paying low wages, and employing unfair practices to thwart efforts by employees to associate, as alleged in the complaints of the International Service Workers' Union to the National Labor Relations Agency.
In March 2013, the City of Pittsburgh filed a lawsuit in a Federal court that challenged UPMC's tax-free status as a public charity, in an effort to make UPMC pay back taxes. The city alleges that UPMC has abused its status to avoid paying property taxes. The city dropped its lawsuit in 2014.
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External links
- UPMC website
- UPMC Health Plan website
- Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
- ISMETT
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh from UPMC
- Magee-Womens Hospital
- Videos
- UPMC and the City of Pittsburgh
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