UPMC supports and provides health care for all conditions, illnesses, and medical needs. All health observances are important. Although we cannot recognize all of them through the UPMC colors, we work to represent as many as possible through the chosen color.
For the month of October, UPMC has turned our sign at U.S. Steel Tower pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
We would like to recognize:
- ADHD Awareness Month (Orange)
- Down Syndrome Awareness Month (Blue and Yellow)
- Eye Injury Prevention Month (Green)
- Lupus Awareness Month (Purple)
- National Depression Screening Day – Oct. 7 (Green)
- National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day – October 13 (Pink, Green, Teal)
- Pregnancy, Infant, and Child Loss Awareness Month (Pink and Blue)
- Safe Sleep Month (Pink and Blue)
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month (Pink and Blue)
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day – October 12 (Purple)
- World Meningitis Day – Oct. 5 (Purple and Blue)
- World Psoriasis Day – Oct. 29 (Orange and Blue)
