UPMC Fast Facts
UPMC is a $10 billion integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Committed to developing and delivering Life Changing Medicine, it 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 more than 55,000 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 more than 20 academic, community, and specialty hospitals and 400 outpatient sites, employs more than 3,000 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 has achieved HIMSS Stage 7— the highest level — in electronic health record implementation; seven other UPMC hospitals are at Stage 6.
UPMC’s Insurance Services Division serves nearly 1.6 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, and two cancer centers and a hospital in Ireland; has provided information technology solutions in the United Kingdom; will manage a biomedical research center in Italy; and is providing ongoing clinical teaching and training in family medicine at a 1,265-bed teaching hospital in Japan. UPMC also is partnering with KingMed Diagnostics, the largest independent medical diagnostic laboratory in China, to provide remote, second-opinion pathology consultations from Pittsburgh.
UPMC is committed to giving back and reinvesting in the community.
- In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC’s community contributions topped $560 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 National Institutes of Health research funding.