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UPMC Presbyterian (often referred to locally as Presby) is a 900-bed[1] non-profit,[2][3] public, research and academic hospital located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, providing tertiary care for the Western Pennsylvania region and beyond. It comprises the Presbyterian campus of the combined UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside hospital entity. The medical center is a part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center health system and is the flagship hospital of the system.[4] UPMC Presbyterian is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is physically conjoined to the medical school's primary facility, Scaife Hall.[5][6] UPMC Presbyterian is also connected via pedestrian bridges and tunnels to UPMC Montefiore hospital, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, the Eye & Ear Institute, Falk Clinic, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing's Victoria Hall, the University of Pittsburgh's Lothrop Hall student residence, and multiple university biomedical science towers.[7][8][9] UPMC Presbyterian also features a Level 1 Trauma Center, 1 of 3 in Pittsburgh.[10][11]

UPMC Presbyterian
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
UPMC's flagship facility, UPMC Presbyterian
Map
Geography
LocationOakland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates40°26′34″N 79°57′39″W / 40.442776°N 79.960720°W / 40.442776; -79.960720
Organization
FundingNon-profit hospital
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Services
Emergency departmentLevel 1 Trauma Center
Beds900
SpecialityTeaching
Helipads
HelipadFAA LID: PS78
Number Length Surface
ft m
1 45 x 55 14 × 17
History
Former name(s)Presbyterian University Hospital
Construction started1930
Opened1893
Links
WebsiteUPMC Presbyterian Website
ListsHospitals in Pennsylvania
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, as seen from Schenley Park
Plan for original university medical center.

History

UPMC Presbyterian was founded in 1893 by Louise Wotring Lyle, the wife of Presbyterian minister Joseph Lyle.[12][13] Already having worked out informal agreements for teaching and staffing privileges with a number of local hospitals,[14] Pitt and its School of Medicine desired to establish an academic medical center, and by the mid-1920s had formed a plan with a coalition of city hospitals to have them relocate to the Oakland neighborhood of the city that the university had itself moved to in 1909.[15][16][17] The University provided Presbyterian Hospital, then located on the North Side, with a tract of land on its campus for construction of a new hospital which broke ground in 1930 and was subsequently opened in 1938.[18]

On November 1, 1926, Children's became the first hospital in the Oakland neighborhood on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.[19]

In 1938, the new Presbyterian Hospital campus joined the Children's hospital in the Oakland neighborhood campus with the objective of providing health care and providing medical education to students of the University of Pittsburgh.[20]

In 1947, Jonas Salk took a job at the University of Pittsburgh as an associate professor of bacteriology and the head of the Virus Research Lab.[21] While at Pitt, he began research on polio and the process of developing a vaccination.[22] In 1952 Salk had created the first Polio vaccination. Salk went on CBS radio to report a successful test on a small group of adults and children on 26 March 1953 and two days later, the results were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.[23]

In 1981 pioneering surgeon and "Father of Transplantation," Dr. Thomas E. Starzl came to the hospital, on condition that he would be free of administrative tasks and able to focus on medicine.[24][25] In a matter of a few years he launched the country's first pediatric and adult liver transplant program.[26] On February 14, 1984, under the direction of Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, Drs. Byers W. Shaw Jr. and Henry T. Bahnson successfully completed the world's' first simultaneous heart and liver organ transplant on six-year-old Stormie Jones at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.[27] During his tenure, Starzl also pioneered the use of a new anti-rejection drug called tacrolimus.[28] Starzl was the head of transplantation at the hospital until 1991 when he stepped down from clinical and surgical duties and shifted all of his focus to research.[28]

In the 1970s, the name of the hospital was changed to Presbyterian University Hospital. In 1986, Presbyterian merged with the nearby Montefiore Hospital to create the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, later changing the name to UPMC Presbyterian.[29][30]

In January 1986, the nearby Children's Hospital opened up a new $250 million tower that featured 210 pediatric beds and included a two-level underground parking garage and a helipad shared by Presbyterian and Children's on the top of the tower.

The old Children's Hospital location was closed on May 2, 2009 when the hospital moved to the new location in the Lawrenceville neighborhood.[31] The original building was demolished in 2011 and the main tower with the helipad remained standing until the helipad and laboratories could move over to the Presbyterian building in 2013.[32] The facade to Presbyterian is now just the renovated old bridge between Presbyterian and Children's.[33]

In September 2018, UPMC unveiled plans to create the new 900,000 square-foot UPMC Heart and Transplant Hospital at UPMC Presbyterian on the site of the former Children's Hospital.[34][35] The new 18-story inpatient building is projected to open in 2023 and will include 620 private patient rooms.[36][37]

Awards

In 2011, the hospital was listed among Becker's Hospital Review 50 Best Hospitals in America,[38]

In 2019, UPMC Presbyterian received an A grade from The Leapfrog Group's Fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grade.[39][40]

 
UPMC Presbyterian - main entrance, University of Pittsburgh

As of 2020, UPMC Presbyterian has placed nationally in 11 ranked specialties and is "high performing" in 3 specialties on the U.S. News & World Report.[41]

In 2020 UPMC Presbyterian was awarded two Women's Choice Awards as top 6% in orthopedics and top 1% in cancer care.[42]

In the 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, UPMC Presbyterian ranked as the 15 best hospital in the United States.[43][44]

U.S. News & World Report Rankings for UPMC Presbyterian[45]
Specialty Rank (In the U.S.) Score (Out of 100)
Cancer #7 71.4
Cardiology & Heart Surgery #33 56.6
Diabetes & Endocrinology #33 59.6
Ear, Nose & Throat #25 69.2
Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #8 71.0
Geriatrics #13 86.0
Nephrology High Performing 51.6
Neurology & Neurosurgery #23 66.2
Ophthalmology Not Ranked 1.1
Orthopedics #29 53.7
Psychiatry High Performing 3.1
Pulmonology & Lung Surgery #18 77.3
Rehabilitation #12 5.0
Rheumatology High Performing 4.2
Urology #16 70.3

Controversy

In 2017 it was discovered that five patients have died from mold infections since October 2014. An investigation into the deaths revealed that mold was found in linens on patient beds. These linens were found to have come from Paris Healthcare Linens, UPMC's linen provider.[46] UPMC then hired investigators to test hospital sites and Paris Linen facilities.[47] The mold was found in all areas of Paris and found on linens at UPMC Presbyterian. Multiple wrongful death lawsuits were filed against the hospital and UPMC has settled in few of them.[48] UPMC continues to contract with Paris in 22 out of 25 of their hospitals.[49][50] Paris was also implicated in the lawsuits and has settled out of court with the plaintiffs.[51][52]

Notable faculty

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    UPMC Presbyterian - main entrance, University of Pittsburgh
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    A sign outside of the hospital.
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    The campus in 1944.
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    View from Pitt dorms.
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See also

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