Telemedicine has taken off in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals around the world looking to technology to help them care for patients while… Read more
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UPMC Leaders Provide COVID-19 Update
At a media availability held this morning, Dr. Graham Snyder, medical director of infection prevention, Tami Minnier, chief quality officer, and Dr. Donald Yealy, senior… Read more
UPMC Urges ‘Changing Mindset’ to Focus on Severity of Illness, not Frequency of COVID-19 Infections
As the nation sees an uptick in positive test results for COVID-19, UPMC officials today stressed that the health system is seeing its lowest numbers… Read more
New UPMC Nursing Council Advances Excellence and Knowledge Worldwide
It was fitting that on May 12, International Nurses Day, UPMC’s newly formed International Nursing Leadership Council held its first meeting. The council, made up… Read more
UPMC Data Show COVID-19 is Increasingly Rare; Efforts to Protect Elderly are Working
As most of the communities UPMC serves prepare to move to “green” – the least restrictive of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 reopening phases – the health system today provided an update on what its data are showing and plans to… Read more