• UPMC is an integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one of the leading nonprofit health systems in the United States.
• UPMC is ranked among the 18 hospitals recognized by U.S. News & World Report as “America’s Best Hospitals.”
• The region’s largest employer, with 48,000 employees (including 2,475 physicians) and nearly $7 billion in revenue, UPMC comprises 20 tertiary, specialty, and community hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, and retirement and long-term care facilities.
• UPMC is the first – and only – nonprofit health system to fully adopt
  Sarbanes-Oxley.
• UPMC Health Plan has more than 1.2 million group health insurance, Medicare, CHIP, Medical Assistance, behavioral health, employee assistance and workers’ compensation members receiving the best health care from the region’s premier provider.
• UPMC Health Plan provides competitive pricing, a comprehensive and robust network that includes world-renowned medical experts, quality health promotion and health management programs, and unmatched service.
• UPMC transformed the economic landscape in western Pennsylvania, creating a genuinely integrated health delivery system by successfully recruiting superb physicians and researchers to develop internationally renowned centers in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, geriatrics, and women’s health, among others.
• A passion for innovation lies at the heart of UPMC’s success. Through such innovation, UPMC has already launched a portfolio of new businesses in information technology, biosecurity, and biomedicine – all nurtured from its core service lines.
• The care UPMC provides every day in western Pennsylvania is highly valued and sought after abroad.
  • UPMC operates a transplant facility in Italy, two cancer centers and a hospital in Ireland, and an emergency medical system in Qatar, and is implementing information technology in the U.K.
• UPMC is committed to giving back and reinvesting in the community.
• The Pittsburgh Promise is a $100 million commitment by UPMC to fund post-secondary education for Pittsburgh’s high school graduates, the largest community challenge grant of its kind.
• Capital spending for a new Children’s Hospital and other patient care improvements will exceed $590 million this year.
• Each year, UPMC contributes to the good health of the region by providing community services, charitable contributions, and uncompensated care valued at more than $300 million.
• UPMC is uniquely positioned as a catalyst for a new economy:
• Develops exportable “commodities.”
• Brings national and international investment to the region.
• Nourishes intellectual capital and enhances the region’s reputation for innovation.
• UPMC is closely affiliated with University of Pittsburgh, which ranks sixth in NIH research funding.

20-Year Retrospective

50+ Fold Increase in Revenue 1987-2007

Outstanding Financial Performance

Investing in World-Class Facilities

Vision for UPMC

UPMC is creating a new economic future for western Pennsylvania — a future built on new ways of thinking about health care and sparked by leveraging the uniqueness of the integrated health enterprise.

By exporting excellence nationally and internationally, and fueling the development of new businesses that emerge from UPMC’s intellectual capital, core capabilities, and management expertise, UPMC is a catalyst for a regional economic renaissance.

At the same time, UPMC remains steadfastly committed to providing premier health care services to our region and contributing to this community.

Jeffrey A. Romoff
President & CEO, UPMC

UPMC International and Commercial Services Division

• UPMC is commercializing its expertise, bringing world-class health care, advanced technologies, and management skills to markets throughout the world.
• The goal is to advance UPMC’s mission of positively transforming the way health care is provided, while revitalizing the economy of western Pennsylvania. UPMC is building a global health care brand that will attract the best and brightest physicians, nurses and researchers for the benefit of all of its patients.
• UPMC’s International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD) includes businesses in two primary areas: commercial products and services and global health care services. Each component is designed to drive transformation of the health care system to deliver advanced care for patients worldwide.

Commercial Services

Strategic Relationships

UPMC is actively forging long-term partnerships with technology and health care industry leaders. UPMC acts as a hands-on equity partner, using its $7 billion integrated global health enterprise to test, evaluate, and develop products and services designed to improve health care delivery.

• IBM, General Electric, Alcatel-Lucent, and Cerner have created joint development funds with UPMC to develop technologies and build businesses that will improve the quality of health care and reduce its costs. The strategic partnerships that UPMC has established will collectively provide $170 million to develop solutions to challenging problems facing health care today. These unique joint development funds are part of UPMC’s large-scale effort to commercialize leadingedge technologies and ideas that will bring real change to health care throughout the world.

Joint Ventures and Direct Investments

UPMC joins with industry innovators to form or support businesses focused on developing breakthrough technologies and advancing patient care.

• CombineMed is changing the way health care supplies are purchased and saving hospital customers millions of dollars. UPMC’s partner in this venture is CombineNet, a maker of optimization software used by many Fortune 500 companies.
• Alliance Oncology, formed with diagnostic imaging leader Alliance Imaging, collaborates with hospitals from coast to coast to provide affordable, technologically advanced, full-service radiation centers.
• dbMotion is a provider ofWeb-based technology that facilitates interoperability and health information exchange by providing secure access to patients’ medical files at facilities that are otherwise unconnected or have no common data-sharing technologies.
• TheraDoc software provides real-time information and reporting of infection factors to help clinical staff and infection control specialists better assess infection risks and support infection reduction initiatives.
• A-Life Hospital, a partnership between UPMC and A-Life Medical, uses sophisticated natural language processing to automate the task of assigning reimbursement codes to inpatient cases, greatly improving coding efficiency.

Entrepreneurial Ventures

UPMC turns its clinical breakthroughs, technological innovations, and proprietary services into profitable companies and commercial products.

• D3 Advanced Radiation Planning is a leader in rapidly implementing and supporting intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).D3 has partnered with more than 40 radiation oncology clinics around the world to provide world-class IMRT programs that improve cancer care.
• ImPACT software, developed by doctors at theUPMC SportsMedicine Concussion Program for rapid concussion injury assessment, is now used by more than 2,000 schools, universities, professional sports programs, and sports medicine centers.
• Stentor, Inc. successfully commercialized innovative technology jointly developed by UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh for viewing, sharing, and archiving digital medical images. Stentor was acquired by Royal Philips Electronics in 2005 for $280 million.

Global Health Care Services

International Development

UPMC is bringing innovative medical care, services and technology to patients around the world.The goal is to create a global health network that attracts top talent and generates new revenues to support UPMC’s core mission of patient care and research.

• UPMC’s Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie (ISMETT) in Sicily is now one of the leading organ transplant centers in Italy and the Mediterranean. Based on its success at ISMETT, UPMC has been chosen to implement and manage the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center in Sicily.
• Cancer clinics in Ireland have been developed and are operated by UPMC to deliver high-quality radiotherapy services to underserved populations. Clinics are now open in Waterford and Dublin. UPMC also is assuming oversight of day-to-day operations, staffing, and clinical programs at Beacon Hospital, the full-serviceDublin hospital that hosts the radiation oncology center run by UPMC.
• Qatar emergency medicine benefits from an agreement for UPMC to provide training and technical services to three hospitals in Qatar.
• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals in the United Kingdom have engaged UPMC to design and implement an electronic medical records system.