The UPMC Story
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 $7 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 48,000 employees, UPMC comprises 20 hospitals, and a network of other care sites across western Pennsylvania and throughout the world: 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. UPMC Health Plan is a pioneer in the management of chronic diseases like congestive heart failure, asthma, and diabetes.
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.