UPMC says it does not have employees
October 22, 2013 11:52 AM By Moriah Balingit / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Depending on whom you ask, medical giant UPMC either employs more than 50,000 people — or no one at all. On Monday, in one of the first hearings of the city of Pittsburgh’s lawsuit to strip UPMC of its tax-exempt charity status, Common Pleas Read More
UPMC defends charitable status
October 7, 2013 12:14 am By Andrew McGill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette UPMC has begun answering the $1.6 billion question — is it really using its 550 acres of tax-free property in Allegheny County for charity? So far, the health care giant’s answer is as clear: You bet we are. In response to a top-to-bottom survey of tax-exempt Read More
NLRB charges UPMC with more than a dozen violations against union-organizing workers
October 2, 2013 1:04 pm By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The National Labor Relations Board has charged UPMC with 19 violations against workers involved in a union-organizing campaign. The charges include unlawfully “threatening, interrogating, and intimidating employees” for union activities, calling police on union representatives who were lawfully on UPMC premises, implying the workers would receive Read More
UPMC execs spin the facts to obscure low wages
September 11, 2013 12:09 am UPMC executives’ efforts to spin the facts can’t mask the reality of the health care giant’s low wages and meager benefits for service workers (“UPMC Provides Superior Benefits to Employees,”Sept. 4 letters). UPMC senior vice president Greg Peaslee’s attempt to obscure service workers’ low wages by lumping their wage rates Read More
UPMC, healthcare union take center stage at Labor Day parade
By Mike Wereschagin Published: Monday, September 2, 2013 4:06 p.m. Elected officials join laborers as they make their way down the Boulevard of the Allies for the annual Labor Day Parade in Downtown Monday, September 2, 2013. More than 70,000 participants took part in the padade which is billed as the second largest in the country, behind Read More
UPMC CEO paid $6 million in fiscal year
Kris B. Mamula. May 16,2013. UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoffwas paid $6.06 million for the year ending June 30, 2012, reflecting a $90,000 raise from the previous fiscal year and leading 26 health system executives in earning more than $1 million, according to newInternal Revenue Service filings. Of the 26 employees who received more than $1 million, Read More
Hospitals’ charges can vary greatly for similar services
May 9, 2013 12:10 am By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Even a quick glance of the data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows stark differences in what hospitals charge for essentially the same service. If a patient had a pacemaker implanted at Allegheny General Hospital in 2011, the hospital on Read More
Judge rules UPMC’s email policy violated labor law
By Alex Nixon Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Thursday, April 25, 2013, 12:51 p.m. UPMC violated federal labor law by preventing its employees from using the hospital network’s computer systems for union-organizing activities, a Pittsburgh administrative law judge ruled. Judge David Goldman ordered UPMC to end a policy meant to keep workers from using email and social media websites to Read More
UPMC to reduce hiring pace and reorganize staff with reimbursements expected to be cut
By Luis Fábregas Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Saturday, April 20, 2013 In a move to slash costs, UPMC plans to reorganize its workforce and will cut hiring by up to 2,000 workers this year, a spokesman said Friday. “Our growth pace has been very aggressive and we’re just reducing that rapid pace,” UPMC spokesman Paul Wood told the Read More
