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Showcasing a 'New America'
The Pittsburgh region has survived wrenching economic change and emerged with a balanced, innovation-driven economy renowned for health care and life sciences, technology and robotics, higher education and research, financial services, advanced manufacturing and renewable energy.
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A City Full of Diversity
As a city full of diversity, you will love exploring the culture, food, and atmosphere of Pittsburgh’s 89 unique and ethnically distinctive neighborhoods. Pittsburgh’s downtown is full of the city hustle and bustle, and Squirrel Hill has the quaint charm of a main street-like community. Meanwhile, Oakland, with its many universities, supplies a uniquely intellectual atmosphere. Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods and the unique people in them are just waiting for you to come and visit!.
UPMC
Contact: Paul Wood, +1 412.647.6647, woodpc@upmc.edu
UPMC: An $8 Billion Global Health Enterprise Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Ranking as 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; is western Pennsylvania's largest employer with 50,000 employees; and 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. 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 1.3 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.
Through its International and Commercial Services Division, UPMC has launched a portfolio of new businesses and international ventures. UPMC operates a transplant facility 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 health care center in Cyprus.
UPMC is closely affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, which ranks fifth in NIH research funding.
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Life in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is home to a cultural phenomenon celebrating our unique history and the people who make this city special. Surprisingly affordable and very livable, it’s no wonder so many people are choosing to make Pittsburgh home.
