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UPMC Presbyterian, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is one hospital with two buildings — UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Montefiore. The hospital is located in the heart of Oakland and has approximately 1,600 beds.

It is an adult medical and surgical hospital, and is a site of ongoing research in conjunction with the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine.

UPMC Presbyterian is a designated as a Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center. The Trauma Center is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the trauma team, led by a trauma attending surgeon. In addition, the hospital has a 24-hour access to the full complement of specialists, including diagnostic imaging, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, facial trauma surgery, vascular surgery, general surgery, and toxicology.

The Same Day Surgery Unit provides surgical and diagnostic procedures on an outpatient or ambulatory basis. Same Day Surgery and Short Procedure Unit patients are admitted as outpatients, have surgery or other special procedures, and are discharged on the same day.

UPMC Presbyterian provides a full range of health care services, including inpatient, outpatient, emergency care, and diagnostic and treatment procedures. Specialties offered at UPMC Presbyterian include organ transplantation, cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, critical care medicine and trauma, and neurosurgery.

The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute performs various types of transplantation, including liver, kidney, pancreas, small bowel, liver/small bowel, heart, heart/lung, double-lung, single-lung, and multiple-organ transplants. Since 1981, the hospital has conducted over 17,000 organ transplants.

The Cardiovascular Institute at UPMC Presbyterian offers services including general, preventative and rehabilitative services, advanced cardiac imaging, cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization and cardiovascular genetics.

The Trauma Program offers services that include evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and surgical intervention of various diseases. Conditions treated include hernia repair, biopsies of fatty tumors or lipomas, cyst removals, lymph node biopsies, insertion of feeding tubes and exploratory surgeries.

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery performs over 6,500 procedures annually. The department is organized into subspecialties which include brain function & behavior, clinical neurophysiology, image-guided neurosurgery, neurosurgical oncology, spine services, and trauma & injury

Services offered at UPMC Montefiore include the Comprehensive Lung Center, Benedum Geriatric Center, Facial Nerve Center, Ambulatory Surgery Center, General Internal Medicine physician offices, and medical and surgical inpatient units.

If you are the victim of medical malpractice at UPMC from doctors or hospitals, get free information from the medical malpractice attorneys of Pennsylvania.


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