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UPMC is an American integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 100,000 employees, 40 hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds, 800 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors' offices, a 3.8 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and international ventures.
The $130 million, 350,000-square-foot, 5-story facility, designed by Pittsburgh architectural firm IKM, opened in 2002 in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is located directly across Centre Avenue from, and connected via a pedestrian bridge to, UPMC Shadyside hospital where cancer surgery and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy ...
Within only two years, both 724 and 412 were nearing exhaustion due to rapid growth of telecommunication services in the Pittsburgh area from proliferation of cell phones and pagers. By this time, overlays had gained more acceptance, and area code 878 was implemented as an overlay complex with both the 412 and 724 territories on August 17, 2001 ...
In 1981, 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. [36] [37] In a matter of a few years he launched the country's first pediatric and adult liver transplant program. [38]
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Allegheny General Hospital, also known locally by the acronym "AGH", is located in the Central Northside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. AGH was the first hospital in Pennsylvania to be designated as a Level 1 shock trauma center. It was also the first hospital in the northeastern United States to offer an aeromedical service.
The Western Pennsylvania Medical College, founded by West Penn surgeons and doctors, opened in October 1886 with a class of 57 students. It was the region's first medical school. The school's building was located at the east end of the hospital property and was connected to West Penn Hospital by an underground tunnel.
In 1998, Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, Sisters of Providence Health System, and Allegany merged to form Catholic Health East. [5] In 2006, Catholic Health East decided to seek a strategic partner to strengthen and preserve its faith-based care in Pittsburgh and Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh merged with UPMC to become UPMC Mercy on January 1, 2008.