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UPMC is the premier health system in western Pennsylvania
and one of the most renowned academic medical centers in the
United States. During the past decade, UPMC has reshaped the
health care landscape in western Pennsylvania. As a $5 billion
organization and the region’s largest employer, it has
transformed the economic landscape as well.
During a period of rapid growth, UPMC created a genuinely integrated
health care delivery system and aggressively recruited superb
physicians and researchers to develop internationally renowned
centers in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry,
rehabilitation, geriatrics, and women’s health, among
others. UPMC also has invested significantly in information
technology to link and integrate electronic medical records
across multiple hospitals and care settings and has invested
research monies to seed new fields like regenerative medicine
and biosecurity. And UPMC has exported its expertise internationally:
In partnership with Italy’s Region of Sicily, UPMC developed
a hospital in Palermo to provide transplantation and other specialized
services.
Today, with 40,000 employees, UPMC comprises 19 hospitals and
a network of other care sites across a 29-county service area:
doctors’ offices, cancer centers, outpatient treatment
centers, specialized imaging and surgery facilities, in-home
care, rehabilitation sites, behavioral health care, and nursing
homes.
UPMC also has leveraged its world-renowned clinical services
and patient care reputation into one of the country’s
fastest growing health insurance plans, offering an array of
commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid products. A pioneer in the
management of chronic diseases like congestive heart failure,
asthma, and diabetes, UPMC Health Plan has been recognized as
one of the best insurance plans in the nation by the National
Committee for Quality Assurance, which ranked it among the top
five in the mid-Atlantic region for effectiveness of care.
UPMC’s standing as one of the nation’s outstanding
medical centers is a source of civic pride. The region benefits
from UPMC’s many charitable contributions and its broad
array of community-based programs to eliminate health disparities
in underserved populations. UPMC also has made a major commitment
to arts organizations to ensure that the region has not only
an outstanding scientific community, but an outstanding cultural
one as well.
A passion for innovation lies at the heart of UPMC’s success.
Through such innovation, UPMC has already launched a portfolio
of new businesses in information technology, biosecurity, and
biomedicine — all nurtured from its core service lines.
UPMC’s unique strategy of combining clinical and research
excellence with business-like discipline translates into excellent
patient care for western Pennsylvanians and the promise of new
jobs, new businesses, and a new biotechnology-based economy
for the region
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