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UPMC Mercy Hospital is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was formed from a merger in January 2008 between Mercy Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). This hospital has 413 beds.
UPMC Mercy is a Level 1 trauma center and provides burn services, women’s health services, rehabilitation and orthopedics. Level 1 trauma is the highest attainable trauma designation for a hospital, which means the hospital has a full range of specialists and surgery equipment available 24 hours a day and must admit a minimum number of severely injured patients each year to retain the designation.
Annually, UPMC Mercy Hospital's staff sees over 44,000 patients in the Emergency Room, admits over 18,000 individuals, performs over 4,700 inpatient and 7,700 outpatient surgeries, and delivers over 1,500 babies.
UPMC Mercy Hospital is a major neurological center, specializing in clot extraction, pituitary tumors, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral vessel stenting and aneurysm coiling.
Since 1961, UPMC Mercy’s cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons have performed more than 20,000 cardiac surgeries, including open-heart surgery, vascular catheterizations, valve repair, pacemaker implementation, stents and intravascular ultrasound imaging.
For outpatient care, UPMC Mercy Hospital offers services such as pulmonary testing, renal ultrasounds, diagnostic imaging (x-ray, EKG, mammograms, MRI and CT scans), stress testing and endoscopy.
UPMC Mercy also incorporates a 33-bed rehabilitation center for treatment related to physical disabilities, brain injuries, strokes and limb amputations.