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It has more than 2900 physicians and allied health professionals and has approximately 11000 employees that serve a 10-county area at outpatient facilities and seven acute care hospitals with over 1,360 licensed beds: UPMC Harrisburg, UPMC Community Osteopathic, UPMC West Shore, UPMC Carlisle, UPMC Hanover, UPMC Lititz, and UPMC Memorial. [2]
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]
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UPMC also offers consumer-directed health plans like health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements. [52] UPMC's provider networks total more than 138 hospitals and more than 16,500 physicians across Pennsylvania and has around three million members making it the largest insurer in Western Pennsylvania.
UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, the largest hospital in Pennsylvania with 1,577 beds and 77 operating rooms, October 2015 Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest in Allentown, the third-largest hospital in Pennsylvania and largest hospital in the Lehigh Valley, with 877 beds and 46 operating rooms, July 2008
The hospital is designed to highlight the world-famous transplant program at UPMC, made famous by pioneer, Dr. Thomas Starzl. [84] UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital will the region's largest hospital dedicated to one specialty. [85] The addition will add 900,000 square feet to space on the UPMC Presbyterian campus, without adding any beds overall.
UPMC Shadyside houses the flagship campus of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, a nationally ranked cancer hospital. [3] Founded in as the Homeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital and Dispensary, it changed its name to that of the neighborhood of Shadyside on May 12, 1938. Shadyside agreed to be bought by UPMC on June 5, 1996.
In June 2008, UPMC announced it would close and consolidate UPMC South Side with UPMC Mercy, which is less than two miles (3 km) away, and was undergoing $75-$90 million in expansions to its campus. [3] South Side ended its hospital designation on June 30, 2009, when the emergency department closed its doors, transferring patients to UPMC Mercy.