neighborhood, which is the location of the flagship facilities of Presbyterian, Montefiore, Western Psychiatric, and Magee- hospitals as well as the home to the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and other affiliated Pitt schools of the health sciences UPMC currently operates 40 academic, community, and specialty hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds, 600 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors' offices, and outpatient sites; over 50 cancer center locations; more than 70 facilities for physical, occupational, speech and specialty therapies; and 20 retirement and long-term care sites.
Flagship facility UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is UPMC's primary
flagship medical entity and represents the core of UPMC's academic,
teaching,
trauma, specialty and research-related facilities, serving as the system's primary academic hub and Pennsylvania's largest inpatient acute care hospital. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside includes UPMC Presbyterian hospital and the physically conjoined UPMC Eye & Ear and UPMC Montefiore hospitals as well as the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital that also serves as the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas Detre Hall. These facilities are all located on the western side of the
University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the
Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The hospitals are also physically connected to the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Scaife Hall, the
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing's Victoria Hall, Falk Clinic, three of the university's biomedical science towers, and the university's
Lothrop Hall dormitory, all of which are surrounded by a variety of other academic facilities. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside also encompasses the UPMC Shadyside hospital campus which includes the
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute in the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center which are located near the university's Centre Plaza Apartments student housing. The UPMC Shadyside facilities are located in the adjacent neighborhood of
Shadyside approximately from the Oakland-based hospitals and are connected by regular shuttle service. Also operating under UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside is the
UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, located less than from the Oakland-based facilities on Pittsburgh's
South Side. The facilities combine to include over 1,600 beds, making it the fourth-largest hospital in the United States.
UPMC Presbyterian campus UPMC Presbyterian UPMC Presbyterian is the historic and academic center of UPMC and is physically attached to the primary facility of the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
Scaife Hall. Located in Oakland, the hospital has 792 beds and includes a
Level I Trauma Center. Listed among ''Becker's Hospital Review'' 50 Best Hospitals in America, UPMC Presbyterian's specialties include
organ transplantation,
cardiology,
trauma,
gastroenterology, and
neurosurgery. The School of Medicine uses UPMC Presbyterian for research and graduate programs.
UPMC Montefiore UPMC Montefiore, part of UPMC Presbyterian, was founded as Montefiore Hospital in 1908 by the Ladies Hospital Aid Society as a hospital for Jewish physicians and patients. Montefiore Hospital affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1957 and joined UPMC in 1990. It is the home to the clinical transplantation facilities originally headed by transplant pioneer
Thomas Starzl and is physically connected to UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Eye and Ear by a series of pedestrian bridges.
UPMC Eye & Ear Institute UPMC Eye & Ear Institute is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is conjoined with the medical complex housing UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Montefiore, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and associated medical research towers. UPMC Ear & Eye Institute is one of a few centers in the nation dedicated entirely to the management of problems related to otolaryngology and ophthalmology.
Clinical Laboratory Building UPMC's nine-story Clinical Laboratory Building (CLB) opened in 2013 and cost $39 million. The CLB is located in the Oakland neighborhood and is situated between Magee- Hospital and UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Much of UPMC's laboratory testing is performed within the CLB. An extensive pneumatic tube system connects the CLB with UPMC hospitals that are in the Oakland neighborhood (Presbyterian, Magee-, Montefiore) to facilitate the transport of specimens from the hospitals to the laboratories.
UPMC Shadyside campus University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute UPMC Shadyside UPMC Shadyside is a nationally ranked, 520-bed non-profit, tertiary, teaching hospital located in the
Shadyside neighborhood of
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. UPMC Shadyside is a part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and grouped in with the flagship UPMC Presbyterian. The hospital is near UPMC's flagship campus which houses
Presbyterian and
Montefiore. As the hospital is a teaching hospital, it is affiliated with
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The hospital has an emergency room to handle emergencies, with a
rooftop helipad to transport critical patients to and from the hospital. UPMC Shadyside houses the flagship campus of the
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, a nationally ranked cancer hospital. UPMC Shadyside is part of UPMC's flagship medical entity and is located in Pittsburgh's
Shadyside neighborhood, with 520 beds and nearly 1,000 primary care physicians. Founded in as the Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital, 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. UPMC Shadyside is home to the Hillman Cancer Center, home of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center The UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, formerly titled the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is a
National Cancer Institute designated cancer center and the flagship of the UPMC Cancer Centers network. Founded in 1985 at the University of Pittsburgh, the center is located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is connected to UPMC Shadyside via a pedestrian bridge.
UPMC sports medicine complexes UPMC has two major facilities which are contained UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside's sports medicine operations.
UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the
Southside of Pittsburgh The
UPMC Rooney Sports Complex is a multipurpose, multisport
training,
sports science, and
sports medical complex located along the shore of the
Monongahela River in
Pittsburgh and is unique in that it combines training facilities for the
University of Pittsburgh football team and the
Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team in one location with an academically based sports science and medicine program. The complex consists of four centers which include the Center for Sports Medicine, Sports Training Center, Indoor Training Center, and the Fitness and Conditioning Center.
UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex The UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, opened in 2015 in
Cranberry Township, is a contains both a comprehensive outpatient facility for UPMC Sports Medicine and the primary training facilities for the
NHL's
Pittsburgh Penguins, and the secondary venue for their
ECHL affiliate, the
Wheeling Nailers. The outpatient clinic includes orthopedic, primary care, physical therapy, concussion, imaging, and sports performance services. The training facility includes two-full-sized ice rinks, training and locker rooms, video review facility, and executive offices.
Major Specialty Hospitals UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh '''UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh''', (CHP), popularly known simply as "Children's", is part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the only hospital in
Southwestern Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the care of infants, children, teens and young adults well into their 20s and beyond, generally stopping around age 26. UPMC Children's also sometimes even treats older adults that require pediatric care. Care is provided by more than 700 board-certified pediatricians and pediatric specialists. Children's also provides primary care and specialty care at over 30 locations throughout the
Pittsburgh region, as well as clinical specialty services throughout western Pennsylvania at regional health care facilities. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was one of only eight pediatric hospitals in the United States to make ''
U.S. News & World Report's'' 2010-11 Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll and is ranked in all ten of the specialties evaluated by
US News. Children's is also one of only eight children's hospitals in the United States to be named as a Leapfrog Top Hospital and was ranked sixth in the nation by
Parents magazine. opened May 2, 2009
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is a specialty hospital of UPMC, specializing in
pediatrics and is located two and a half miles from UPMC Presbyterian in the
Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Serving as UPMC's primary pediatrics facility, it was originally located adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland. Children's is one of four children's hospitals in the state, and its emergency department is one of only two Level I Pediatric Trauma Centers. The Emergency Department at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh treats more than 80,000 patients a year. More than 500,000 infants, children, and adolescents make trips to the hospital every year. Children's ranks in nine of the 10 pediatric subspecialties in the prestigious
U.S. News & World Report annual Honor Roll of America's Best Children's Hospitals for 2018–2019. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh boasts and has 315 beds, with a 46-bed emergency department and a 36-bed pediatric
intensive care unit. A ten-story research center was constructed, with seven out of the ten floors dedicated to pediatric medical research.
UPMC Magee- Hospital UPMC Magee- Hospital is a UPMC specialty hospital that serves as its primary facility for women's health. Opened mainly for women on January 19, 1911, it has offered some services for men since the 1960s. The hospital is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh near UPMC Presbyterian, a location it has been at since its fourth year in 1915. The hospital merged with UPMC in 1999. It currently is equipped with 360 beds, an emergency room and ambulatory facilities on four floors which allows it to offer all possible services under one roof including family medicine physicians, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, rheumatologists, pulmonary specialists, orthopedists, urologists and neurologists. Magee- has a staff of 2,500, of which 1,500 are medically licensed. It also operates a satellite hospital in the city's northern suburbs as part as the UPMC Passavant facility as well as 9 metro area imaging clinics. In 2011 the hospital undertook an expansion of its main facility which was completed in June 2012. The expansion added six floors, increased the number of beds from 318 to 360 (including 14 additional intensive care rooms), and expanded the surgical and ambulatory facilities. 10,000 births are performed at Magee each year, which accounts for 45 percent of all births in
Allegheny County. The hospital is built on the grounds of the home of legendary Pittsburgh political boss
Christopher Magee and named in honor of his mother, Elizabeth Steel Magee.
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital in Oakland UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital is one of the nation's largest and most renowned university-affiliated psychiatric hospitals and serves as UPMC's primary psychiatric facility. For more than 60 years, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital has been a national leader in providing best practice, research-based care and a broad array of innovative psychiatric and addiction services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors at every stage of their recovery. Located adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Thomas Detre Hall on O'Hara Street in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, and connected to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital by a tunnel, Western Psychiatric houses the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and serves as a main teaching hospital for psychiatry, psychology, and social work trainees. With nearly 400 inpatient psychiatric beds and more than 50 ambulatory programs, it is one of the largest behavioral health care providers affiliated with an academic medical center in the country. A fatal shooting incident occurred at Western Psychiatric's Thomas Detre Hall on March 8, 2012. 30-year-old John Shick, a
Carleton College alumnus and former
Duquesne University biology graduate student, entered the building at 1:42p.m. with two semiautomatic handguns and shot six people in the first-floor lobby. Michael Schaab, 25, a Western Psychiatric therapist, was killed. University of Pittsburgh police arrived just after 2 p.m. and engaged Shick in a gun battle, eventually killing him. Seven people, including Pitt police officers, were injured and two, including the shooter, were killed during the incident. Shick was reported to have a history of mental illness and had behaved erratically in the weeks before the shooting. Handwritten messages complaining about his medical treatment and the evils of "corporate America," floor plans and blueprints of Thomas Detre Hall, and supplies for making
Molotov cocktails were found in his apartment after the shooting.
Future specialty hospitals In 2018, UPMC announced it would be constructing 3 additional specialty hospitals in Pittsburgh: a vision hospital set to open adjacent to UPMC Mercy, a 180-bed cancer hospital set to open adjacent to UPMC Shadyside, and a 620-bed heart and transplant specialty hospital set to open adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian. The UPMC Vision Institute opened in the 9-story UPMC Mercy Pavilion in April 2023. A 17-story specialty medicine tower adjacent to UPMC Presbyterian broke ground in June 2022 and is targeted to open in 2026.
Tertiary hospitals The following
tertiary hospitals are major full-service, referral hospitals of the UPMC system.
UPMC Mercy UPMC Mercy is a 495-bed teaching and Level 1 trauma hospital located in the
Bluff neighborhood adjacent to
downtown and less than two miles (3km) from UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland. Mercy was the first chartered hospital in the city of Pittsburgh and was the first hospital in the world to have been established by the
Sisters of Mercy. Mercy has retained its affiliation with the
Catholic Church following its merger with UPMC in January 2008.
UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center The
UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center, formerly UPMC South Side hospital, is a
urgent care and
outpatient facility serving the
South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is one of several UPMC outpatient medical facilities serving various communities throughout the region.
UPMC Altoona UPMC Altoona, located in
Altoona, Pennsylvania, is a 361-bed, non-profit, private community hospital system that contains more than 20 affiliated health care companies and functions as the regional referral center and tertiary hub of UPMC in west central Pennsylvania.
UPMC Hamot UPMC Hamot is 423-bed, tertiary care teaching medical center with a Level II trauma center located in
Erie, Pennsylvania. Hamot offers primary medical care and the full complement of medical specialties. The hospital was founded in 1881 and officially became part of UPMC in 2011. As of October 2013, it also houses the Pediatrics wing of
UPMC Hamot.
UPMC Kane UPMC Kane, formerly known as Kane Community Hospital, is a 31-bed acute care hospital located in
Kane, Pennsylvania, that became an affiliate of UPMC Hamot in November 2009. UPMC Kane was fully integrated into the UPMC network on April 1, 2017, and functions as a direct subsidiary of UPMC Hamot.
UPMC Passavant UPMC Passavant is UPMC's tertiary care hospital of Pittsburgh's northern suburbs that consist of two campuses, one in
McCandless and another in
Cranberry Township with a combined 423 beds. Founded by Lutherans in 1849, Passavant was the first Protestant hospital built in the United States. In 1964, Passavant moved from the City of Pittsburgh to its location in
McCandless to serve the communities of northern
Allegheny and southern
Butler counties. Passavant merged with UPMC in 1997 and in 2002, as part of UPMC's acquisition of St. Francis Medical Center for the conversion of its flagship facility into the new Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC converted St. Francis' hospital in Cranberry into a satellite campus of UPMC Passavant. In 2010, a seven-story 188,000 square foot patient pavilion was opened on the McCandless campus bringing total beds there to 399.
UPMC Harrisburg UPMC Harrisburg is a 409-bed urban, teaching hospital in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, serving as the primary referral hospital for the UPMC Central PA system which comprises seven hospitals and additional clinics serving south central and
southeastern Pennsylvania.
UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport is a 224-bed tertiary hospital in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, serving as the primary referral hospital of the six hospital UPMC Susquehanna system serving north central Pennsylvania.
Acute care/community hospitals UPMC operates the following
acute care community hospitals dedicated to specific missions within their particular communities. • UPMC Bedford, located in
Everett, Pennsylvania. • UPMC Chautauqua, located in
Jamestown, New York, is a 317-bed hospital that was originally charted in 1885. It is the only domestic hospital located outside of Pennsylvania to become part of the UPMC system. • UPMC Horizon, which consists of the
Greenville and
Shenango Valley campuses. • UPMC Jameson, located in
New Castle, Pennsylvania. • UPMC McKeesport, located in
McKeesport, Pennsylvania. • UPMC Northwest, located in
Seneca, Pennsylvania. •
UPMC St. Margaret, a 248-bed acute care and teaching hospital in the northeast corner of Pittsburgh, near Aspinwall, PA, serving the residents of northeastern Allegheny County and the Alle-Kiski Valley. •
UPMC Central Pa which comprises seven hospitals, including its tertiary flagship
UPMC Harrisburg, serves
South Central Pennsylvania, operates the following seven community hospitals: • UPMC Carlisle located in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania • UPMC Hanover located in
Hanover, Pennsylvania • UPMC Lititz located in
Lititz, Pennsylvania • UPMC Memorial located in
York, Pennsylvania has 104 beds, five stories, and opened in 2019. • UPMC Community Osteopathic located in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • UPMC West Shore located in
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania •
UPMC Somerset, a 111-bed, general acute care community hospital located in
Somerset, Pennsylvania • UPMC Susquehanna which comprises five hospitals, including its tertiary flagship
UPMC Williamsport, operates the additional four community hospitals in north central Pennsylvania and one outpatient emergency center: • UPMC Cole located in
Coudersport, Pennsylvania. • UPMC Lock Haven (outpatient emergency center) located in
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • UPMC Muncy located in
Muncy, Pennsylvania • UPMC Wellsboro located in
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania •
UPMC Williamsport Divine Providence Campus located in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania •
UPMC Washington, a 244-bed hospital located in
Washington, Pennsylvania • UPMC Greene, a 23-bed hospital of the former Washington Health System located in
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania •
UPMC Western Maryland, a 200-bed hospital located in
Cumberland, Maryland International hospitals and facilities Internationally, UPMC operates a transplant hospital in Italy (
ISMETT), two hospitals and two cancer centers in Ireland, a cancer center in Rome and previously helped to establish an emergency medical system in Qatar. UPMC also implemented information technology solutions and assisting with the development of cancer centers in the United Kingdom, is providing consultation services and developing a network of co-managed hospitals in China, and, with the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, implemented a U.S.-style resident training program in
Japan. UPMC is also a partner with the University of Pittsburgh and the governments of Italy and the region of Sicily in Fondazione Ri.Med, which is building a €210million Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center in
Carini near Palermo. In June 2019, UPMC signed a deal with the
Wanda Group to develop and operate five private hospitals in major Chinese cities. The first hospital, the
Chengdu Wanda-UPMC International Hospital, is expected to open in 2022.
ISMETT The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (
Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, or ISMETT) is located in
Palermo,
Italy, and serves the region of
Sicily and the
Mediterranean as a hospital designed exclusively for transplants and treatment of end-stage organ failure. ISMETT is a joint public-private partnership between the Region of Sicily, through Civico and Cervello hospitals in Palermo, and UPMC, which manages and operates the facility. It is also a center for research in regenerative medicine and various international collaborations including the
University of Pittsburgh's and UPMC's
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
UPMC Kildare UPMC Kildare Hospital is a 39-bed private hospital located in
County Kildare, Ireland (founded in 1985 as
Clane General Hospital). UPMC acquired the hospital in November 2019 in partnership with the Institute of Eye Surgery.
UPMC Whitfield UPMC Whitfield is an 80-bed private hospital located in
Waterford, Ireland. UPMC, which had operated a cancer center at the hospital since 2006, acquired the hospital on May 24, 2018.
UPMC Salvator Mundi UPMC Salvator Mundi International Hospital 75-bed private hospital in Rome, Italy, that is jointly owned by UPMC and Rome International Hospital Management Srl. UPMC owns a 50% stake in the hospital and leads its medical operations including having responsibility for selecting its medical director and chief operating officer.
Former hospitals Former UPMC hospitals include UPMC Sunbury in
Sunbury, Pennsylvania (2017–2020) which was closed and services integrated into other nearby facilities; UPMC Beacon Hospital in
Dublin,
Ireland (2009 to 2014) which was acquired by Irish businessman Denis O'Brien;
UPMC Braddock in
Braddock, Pennsylvania (1996 to 2010) which was closed;
UPMC South Side hospital in Pittsburgh (1996 to 2009) which was merged with
UPMC Mercy and converted into
UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center; UPMC Lee Regional in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania (1998 to 2005) which was sold to
Conemaugh Health System; and UPMC Beaver Valley in
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania (1996 to 2001) which was transferred back to its community board and subsequently closed. UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster, formerly St. Joseph's hospital in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, closed on February 28, 2019, and its services were consolidated into UPMC Pinnacle Lititz. ==Community engagement==