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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 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]
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 Pittsburgh Cancer Institute was founded in 1985 under the direction of Ronald B. Herberman, MD. [3] [4] In 1990, the center earned NCI designation. [5]The Hillman Cancer Center was opened in 2002 and housed the clinical services for UPMC Cancer Centers and research facilities for the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. [6]
The UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center, formerly UPMC South Side hospital, is a 209,000-square-foot (19,400 m 2) urgent care and outpatient facility serving the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. [105] It is one of several UPMC outpatient medical facilities serving various communities throughout the region.
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
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.
The simulator obtained for this purpose, essentially the only one available at the time, came at the high cost of over $250,000. The Department obtained computers and other additional equipment, and in 1994 the center was launched on the third floor of Montefiore University Hospital, now UPMC Montefiore. Dr.