University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

There are 92,000 workers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which is a $23 billion worldwide nonprofit health company. There are 40 hospitals with more than 8,000 licenced beds and 800 clinical facilities, including outpatient clinics and physicians' offices. The University of Pittsburgh, with whom it shares a campus, is an important academic partner. Because its flagship institutions have been included in U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of the roughly 15 to 20 greatest hospitals in the United States for over 15 years, it is regarded a major American health care provider. U.S. News & World Report has placed UPMC Presbyterian as the 12th best hospital in the country, and the first in Pennsylvania, and ranked UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in 15 of the 16 specialist categories. This excludes UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, which was placed in the top 10 among paediatric facilities in a separate US News rating.

UPMC's origins may be traced back to the creation of Presbyterian Hospital in 1893 and the formation of Western Pennsylvania Medical College in 1886. Once established in 1892, Western University of Pennsylvania's medical college became associated with the institution in 1908, when the university was renamed the University of Pittsburgh. An academic medical centre was a goal for Pitt's School of Medicine and its School of Medicine, and by the mid-1920s the institution had worked up a plan to transfer several city hospitals to its Oakland district, where Pitt had relocated in 1909, to build an academic medical centre. Construction of a new Presbyterian Hospital on the University's campus, which began in 1930 and was completed in 1938, was made possible by the University's donation of land. Libby Steele Magee, Presbyterian General, and Women's Hospitals, as well as the proposed Municipal Hospital, were all part of the "University Medical Center" by the late 1930s, which also included the Falk Clinic. As a result of a new affiliation agreement between the University and Presbyterian Hospital in 1949, the hospital's name was changed to Presbyterian University Hospital in 1951 to better represent its strong links to the University of Pittsburgh's goal of patient care, research, and teaching. "University of Pittsburgh Health Center" was first mentioned in 1958, and included the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy; the Graduate School of Public Health; Presbyterian, Women's, Children's, Eye and Ear; and the Falk Clinic, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Child Guidance Center, Salk Hall, and Central Blood Bank. [20] As time passed, the relationship between the medical centres and the university became closer and closer. After a merger in 1965 between the University Health Center of Pittsburgh, Presbyterian-University Hospital, Magee and Women's, Eye and Ear and Children's Hospitals, the University Health Center of Pittsburgh was established (UHCP). In 1969, Montefiore Hospital became a member of the United Hospital and Health Care Professionals (UHCP). The Western Psychiatric Institute, led by Thomas Detre in the 1970s, adopted a new administrative paradigm in which therapeutic money was spent in research. In the early 1980s, Detre acquired administration of all six of the University's schools of health sciences after steering the psychiatric institute to become one of the major receivers of NIH money. A major biomedical research hub was created by using the same administrative paradigm across all of the health sciences and medical center's departments.