UPMC
UPMC
Our Mission
UPMC’s mission is to:
Serve our communities by providing outstanding patient care.
Shape tomorrow’s health system through clinical and technological innovation, research, and education.
Our Vision
UPMC will lead the transformation of health care.
The UPMC model will be nationally recognized for redefining health care by:
Putting our patients, health plan members, employees, and community at the center of everything we do and creating a model that ensures that every patient gets the right care, in the right way, at the right time, every time.
Harnessing our integrated capabilities to deliver both superb state-of-the-art care to our patients and high value to our stakeholders
Employing our partnership with the University of Pittsburgh to advance the understanding of disease, its prevention, treatment and cure.
Serving the underserved and disadvantaged, and advancing excellence and innovation throughout health care.
Fueling the development of new businesses globally that are consistent with our mission as an ongoing catalyst and driver of economic development for the benefit of the residents of the region.
Our Values
Quality and safety. We create a safe environment where quality is our guiding principle.
Dignity and respect. We treat all individuals with dignity and respect.
Caring and listening. We listen to and care for our patients, our health plan members, our fellow employees, our physicians, and our community.
Responsibility and integrity. We perform our work with the highest levels of responsibility and integrity.
Excellence and innovation. We think creatively and build excellence into everything that we do.
UPMC’s mission is to:
Serve our communities by providing outstanding patient care.
Shape tomorrow’s health system through clinical and technological innovation, research, and education.
Our Vision
UPMC will lead the transformation of health care.
The UPMC model will be nationally recognized for redefining health care by:
Putting our patients, health plan members, employees, and community at the center of everything we do and creating a model that ensures that every patient gets the right care, in the right way, at the right time, every time.
Harnessing our integrated capabilities to deliver both superb state-of-the-art care to our patients and high value to our stakeholders
Employing our partnership with the University of Pittsburgh to advance the understanding of disease, its prevention, treatment and cure.
Serving the underserved and disadvantaged, and advancing excellence and innovation throughout health care.
Fueling the development of new businesses globally that are consistent with our mission as an ongoing catalyst and driver of economic development for the benefit of the residents of the region.
Our Values
Quality and safety. We create a safe environment where quality is our guiding principle.
Dignity and respect. We treat all individuals with dignity and respect.
Caring and listening. We listen to and care for our patients, our health plan members, our fellow employees, our physicians, and our community.
Responsibility and integrity. We perform our work with the highest levels of responsibility and integrity.
Excellence and innovation. We think creatively and build excellence into everything that we do.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Company Information
A $26 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates more than 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a more than 4 million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.5 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation’s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals.
Company History
The History of Life Changing Medicine at UPMC
UPMC has ushered in a new era of health care excellence throughout Pennsylvania, regionally in New York and Maryland, and in locations around the world.
The beginnings of Life Changing Medicine at UPMC can be traced back to the final years of the 19th century. Important dates covering nearly 130 years of accomplishments include:
1893, the tertiary care hospital that was to become UPMC’s flagship — UPMC Presbyterian — was founded.
1973, a comprehensive reorganization of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Psychiatry, under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Detre and Jeffrey A. Romoff, began a new era of research-based medicine in Pittsburgh — and set the stage for UPMC’s eventual mission of clinical care, research, and teaching.
1986, three university-affiliated hospitals — Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Presbyterian-University Hospital, and Eye & Ear Hospital of Pittsburgh — unified under an organization that would evolve into UPMC.
1990, the name “University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,” or UPMC, was adopted. UPMC continued to merge with community and specialty hospitals, creating the first truly integrated health care delivery system in the Pittsburgh region.
1997, recognizing the efficiencies possible from complementing its provider network with a health insurance product, UPMC started its Insurance Services Division. Today, UPMC Health Plan is western Pennsylvania’s largest medical insurer.
Also dedicated to supporting Life Changing Innovation and redevelopment of the economy of the regions we serve, UPMC has diversified into a wide array of services that range from home health care and retirement communities to international and commercial operations.
Driven by an unwavering focus on core values, these initiatives support the academic and nonprofit missions that fuels UPMC’s continued development. Never content to rest on past accomplishments, UPMC continues to anticipate and prepare for the challenges facing academic and nonprofit medicine, both today and tomorrow.
UPMC has ushered in a new era of health care excellence throughout Pennsylvania, regionally in New York and Maryland, and in locations around the world.
The beginnings of Life Changing Medicine at UPMC can be traced back to the final years of the 19th century. Important dates covering nearly 130 years of accomplishments include:
1893, the tertiary care hospital that was to become UPMC’s flagship — UPMC Presbyterian — was founded.
1973, a comprehensive reorganization of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Psychiatry, under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Detre and Jeffrey A. Romoff, began a new era of research-based medicine in Pittsburgh — and set the stage for UPMC’s eventual mission of clinical care, research, and teaching.
1986, three university-affiliated hospitals — Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Presbyterian-University Hospital, and Eye & Ear Hospital of Pittsburgh — unified under an organization that would evolve into UPMC.
1990, the name “University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,” or UPMC, was adopted. UPMC continued to merge with community and specialty hospitals, creating the first truly integrated health care delivery system in the Pittsburgh region.
1997, recognizing the efficiencies possible from complementing its provider network with a health insurance product, UPMC started its Insurance Services Division. Today, UPMC Health Plan is western Pennsylvania’s largest medical insurer.
Also dedicated to supporting Life Changing Innovation and redevelopment of the economy of the regions we serve, UPMC has diversified into a wide array of services that range from home health care and retirement communities to international and commercial operations.
Driven by an unwavering focus on core values, these initiatives support the academic and nonprofit missions that fuels UPMC’s continued development. Never content to rest on past accomplishments, UPMC continues to anticipate and prepare for the challenges facing academic and nonprofit medicine, both today and tomorrow.