Nurses and hospital workers, along with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, have launched a petition calling on Pennsylvania health care systems to invest in staff safety and security measures following the violent Nov. 7 attack of an emergency room nurse at UPMC Altoona by a patient. Travis Dunn, ...
Donald Yealy, UPMC鈥檚 chief medical officer and senior vice president of the Health Services Division, cuts the ribbon at the UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care center in Waynesburg Wednesday morning, accompanied by a group of medical leaders and officials from Greene County and Pennsylvania. The ...
A man who took staff members hostage in the ICU at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York County last weekend, killing a police officer and wounding five before he died in a shootout with police, was the most recent incident of increasing violence against U.S. health care workers. Workplace violence ...
Ambulance and Chair EMS paramedics are always on standby to respond to an emergency. Now, paramedics have a new tool to save lives. Through its affiliation with UPMC, Ambulance and Chair EMS is among the first in the region to carry blood on ambulances and administer blood to patients with ...
The number of individuals in the U.S. who had chronic hypertension or chronic high blood pressure during pregnancy doubled between 2008 and 2021, according to a new study published in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association. At the same time, prescribing and filling of ...
What a difference a year makes. On Wednesday, UPMC Washington hosted a celebration at the hospital to commemorate its new affiliation with UPMC. The celebration, which included flag-raisings at now renamed UPMC Washington and UPMC Greene in Waynesburg, comes one year after the health ...
