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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is a $21 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 89,000 employees, 40 hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds, 700 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors' offices, a 3.7 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and international ventures. [1]
UPMC Williamsport, formerly UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport and Williamsport Regional Medical Center, is a hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Originally established in 1873 as the Williamsport Hospital, it currently operates at least 224 beds and is a level II trauma center.
The first hospital in Williamsport opened its doors around April 1, 1878. In the coming hundred or so years as the population of the area grew and fell Divine Providence was founded and opened in 1951 as a full scale emergency hospital and was the main care facility in the county. [1] The emergency department was dissolved in the 1990s.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was also the largest health system network in the state by number of hospitals (28), beds (7,022), and operating rooms (379). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hospitals in Pennsylvania
In October 2009, UPMC's administration decision to close UPMC Braddock hospital [163] resulted in multiple protest and lawsuits [164] by community groups who disputed UPMC's claims that the hospital was losing money and was underutilized. [165] The facility, now demolished in preparation for redevelopment, closed in January 2010. [166]
Williamsport is the larger principal city of the Williamsport-Lock Haven, PA Combined Statistical Area, which includes the Williamsport metropolitan area (Lycoming County) and the Lock Haven micropolitan area (Clinton County) [23] [24] [25] and had a combined population of 157,958 at the 2000 census.
In the early 1990s, Dr. Winter, as Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, realized the importance of establishing a simulation center for training Department personnel. The simulator obtained for this purpose, essentially the only one available at the time, came at the high cost of over $250,000.
UPMC Mercy is a main hospital facility of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and is located in the Uptown section of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Duquesne University, and a few blocks from the PPG Paints Arena and downtown Pittsburgh.