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Services
We Offer
About UPMC McKeesport
Founded in 1894, UPMC McKeesport is a nonprofit acute care community
hospital that serves the 200,000 residents of McKeesport and the
surrounding area. The hospital offers 216 beds for acute care patients
and 56 beds for patients who need skilled nursing care. Besides
a separate Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Care Unit, the hospital
offers ongoing rehabilitation and educational programs to patients
with cardiac, neurologic, and orthopaedic diagnoses. A new, state-of-the-art
emergency room opened in December of 1999.
UPMC McKeesport
is in the valley of the historic Monongahela River -- the Mon Valley.
The Mon Valley is home to a large number of elderly residents. To
serve this population, the hospital has become an approved site
for the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). As
a PACE site, UPMC McKeesport offers an innovative program of seamless
health care to older patients. UPMC McKeesport is a teaching hospital,
with residency programs in both family practice and internal medicine.
The hospital’s
merger with UPMC in April 1998 provides access to UPMC’s state-of-the-art
diagnostic and interventional capabilities and its extensive roster
of specialists. The resources of UPMC have allowed UPMC McKeesport
to enhance its commitment to the community. This commitment is visible
through the health care services the hospital provides as well as
through the community-focused programs sponsored by the McKeesport
Hospital Foundation.
Specialty
Programs
- Behavioral
Health Services
- Sleep
Disorders Center
- Womansplace
Womansplace offers free and confidential counseling to battered
women seeking treatment in UPMC McKeesport's emergency room. In
addition, this group can provide shelter, legal and medical advocacy,
and children's services to those in abusive relationships.
- Radiation
Oncology Minority Outreach Program at UPMC McKeesport
Sponsored by the Cancer Disparities Research Partnership of the
National Cancer Institute, this Neighborhood Cancer Care Cooperative
program provides outreach, education, and services for disparate
patient populations. For more information call 412-664-2579.
Other Services
Patient Satisfaction
UPMC prides itself on providing quality care to patients. All UPMC hospitals are accredited by the Joint Commission (formerly called Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, or JCAHO). If the patient believes his or her concerns about care or safety have not been addressed by the hospital, the patient also may contact the Joint Commission’s Office of Quality Monitoring by phone at 1-800-994-6610 or by e-mail at complaint@jointcommission.org.
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