UPMC East Facts and Figures

By the Numbers

Hospital beds

• 156 private rooms
• 140 Medical-Surgical
• 16 ICU beds

Site size

• 16.7 acres

Parking

• 460-space parking garage
• 70 surface lot spaces

Emergency room bays: 24

Operating rooms: 7

Endoscopy rooms (ERCP): 2

Catheterization labs: 2

Special Features at UPMC East

• Patient-centered clinical care and amenities, including a healing garden
• Point-of-care testing
• State-of-the-art operating rooms
• Integrated interventional procedural suites
• Paperless
• Following Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-principles
• Helipad
• Simulation training room
• Telemedicine capabilities

Did You Know?

• UPMC East is designed with all private patient rooms and larger patient bathrooms to help reduce falls and improve safety.
• UPMC East utilized 100 percent recycling of the former building.
• The hospital is designed for energy reduction, with larger windows and maximized solar efficiencies from building orientation, and will reduce energy operating expenses by 18 percent.
• During its construction, UPMC East invested $2.4 million in storm water management improvements.
• UPMC made improvements to the intersections and roads around the site to benefit all who travel through this area, which is noted as one of the busiest intersections in Pennsylvania.