The UPMC Mercy Burn Center teamed up with the Burn Prevention Network and Pittsburgh Public Safety to host “Celebrate Safely, PA!”, an event focused on preventing firework-related injuries. “Every year in the two weeks preceding… Read more
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UPMC Mercy Trauma and Burn Center’s Guide to a Healthy Holiday Season
Tis’ the season where people deck their halls with lights and wreaths, brave the elements to go “walking in a winter wonderland” and participate in… Read more
Former Burn Patient Gives Back to UPMC Mercy with Magic Shows
At this time last summer, 13-year-old Jordan Finkelstein was an outpatient at the UPMC Mercy Trauma and Burn Center after sustaining a second-degree burn to… Read more
Pediatric Burn Patients at UPMC Mercy Benefit From Support of LHAS
The UPMC Mercy Trauma and Burn Center has been treating burn patients of all ages since 1967, becoming the first burn center of its… Read more
Have a Blast This 4th of July – Safely
Members of the media and bystanders watched as the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police bomb squad detonated a confiscated homemade firework inside a watermelon, launching pieces… Read more