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
Why Are Hospital CEOs Paid So Well?
By Richard Gunderman, 10/16/2013 Can you tell how good a job hospital CEOs are doing by the amount they are paid? A study by investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health this week suggests that the answer is no. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine, the study found no link between Read More
Group says UPMC wage scale is harmful
August 22, 2013 12:14 am By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette UPMC may be the state’s largest employer with more than 50,000 people on staff locally, but the low wages that many of its service workers earn are eroding Pittsburgh’s middle class, according to a white paper scheduled for release today by Pittsburgh United, a long-standing critic 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
Chelsa Wagner: UPMC is different from other charities
April 17, 2013 12:05 am I understand some charities are concerned about the challenge of UPMC’s tax status. The truth is, our charities have nothing to worry about. This challenge has to do with whether UPMC meets the definition of a charity established by the state constitution and Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A number of Read More
