Protests against Pittsburgh hospital expansion highlight city’s growing racial health disparities
Over 100 people spoke at a hearing in opposition to UPMC’s proposed $2 billion expansion. More than 100 activists and employees took turns speaking at a packed Pittsburgh City Council hearing Tuesday on the proposed $2 billion expansion of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. They were there to Read More
Hearing to discuss UPMC’s plan for new hospital on Mercy campus
SUZANNE ELLIOTT | Monday, April 16, 2018, 4:09 p.m. The Pittsburgh Planning Commission will hold a public hearing 2 p.m. Tuesday on the first floor of 200 Ross St. to discuss UPMC’s plans to build a new specialty Vision and Rehabilitation Hospital on the campus of UPMC Mercy. UPMC announced plans in November for three Read More
With 3 new hospitals in Pittsburgh, UPMC aims to be ‘Amazon of health care’
BEN SCHMITT AND WES VENTEICHER | Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, 11:05 p.m. Western Pennsylvania’s dominant health care system has room to grow in a fiercely competitive market, UPMC’s president and CEO said Friday as he announced plans to build three specialty hospitals at a cost of $2 billion. The system aims to fundamentally disrupt the 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 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
Voters support challenge of UPMC
Published: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 12:01 a.m. Updated: Friday, April 12, 2013 Pittsburgh’s challenge of UPMC’s nonprofit status has the support of an overwhelming majority of likely voters, a Tribune-Review poll of registered Democrats in the city shows. The poll conducted by Susquehanna Polling & Research of Harrisburg found that 76 percent of those voters support Read More
Ravenstahl wants UPMC to pay tax on all 150 properties in Pittsburgh
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is going after UPMC’s tax-exempt properties in the city. All 150 of them. Ravenstahl said the city is challenging the tax-exempt status of the $10 billion hospital system’s properties in the city with a lawsuit it filed Wednesday with the Allegheny County Court of Common Read More
