UPMC Fast Facts
UPMC is an $8 billion integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is one of the leading health systems in the United States.
- UPMC is a nonprofit that melds an unwavering community mission with entrepreneurial business models. UPMC is the first nonprofit health system to fully adopt Sarbanes-Oxley.
- UPMC is western Pennsylvania’s largest employer, with 50,000 employees, and ranks as the no. 2 employer in the Commonwealth.
- A recognized innovator in information technology, UPMC has deployed an electronic health record across its hospitals and is developing a semantic interoperability solution to unify information from multiple systems. These capabilities, which are being developed in collaboration with industry leaders like Cerner, GE, and IBM, will result in products that are commercialized nationally and abroad.
UPMC operates 20 academic, community, and specialty hospitals and 400 outpatient sites, employs 2,700 physicians, and offers an array of rehabilitation, retirement, and long-term care facilities.
- UPMC has created a genuinely integrated health delivery system. With renowned centers of excellence in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, geriatrics, and women’s health, it is ranked among “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.
- UPMC’s facilities are among the most technologically advanced in the nation. The recently opened Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is one of only a handful of “paperless” hospitals in existence, and is one of two UPMC facilities to reach HIMSS Stage 6 in electronic health record implementation.
UPMC’s health insurance arm serves 1.4 million members and has some of the fastest growing health plans in the region. It offers commercial, Medicare, Medical Assistance, CHIP, behavioral health, employee assistance, and workers’ compensation products.
- It provides a “public-health” focused front door to a network that includes world-renowned medical experts, quality health promotion and health management programs, and unmatched service.
- It has been nationally recognized by business and industry groups for innovation and service excellence.
Through its International and Commercial Services Division, UPMC has launched a portfolio of new businesses and international ventures.
- UPMC is commercializing its expertise, bringing world-class health care, advanced technologies, and management skills to markets throughout the world through: clinical services management, infrastructure consultation, strategic and commercial product development partnerships, translational sciences, and national security and public health. Each component is designed to drive transformation of health care delivery worldwide.
- Internationally, UPMC operates a hospital specializing in transplant in Italy, two cancer centers and a hospital in Ireland, and an emergency medical system in Qatar; is implementing information technology solutions in the United Kingdom; and will manage a newly created hospital and cancer center Cyprus and a biomedical research center in Italy.
UPMC is committed to giving back and reinvesting in the community.
- In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC’s community contributions topped $500 million and represented 13 percent of net patient revenue.
- In 2007, UPMC made a $100 million commitment to The Pittsburgh Promise to fund postsecondary education for Pittsburgh’s high school graduates.
UPMC is closely affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, which ranks fifth in NIH research funding.