Altoona Snapshots

Our Mission and Vision Our Values Our Mission Quality and safety UPMC’s mission is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and We create a safe environment where to shape tomorrow’s health system through clinical and technological innovation, research, quality is our guiding principle. and education. Dignity and respect Our Vision We treat all individuals with dignity UPMC will lead the transformation of health care. The UPMC model will be nationally and respect. recognized for redefining health care by: Caring and listening •• Putting•our•patients,•health•plan•members,•employees,•and•community•at•the•center•• We listen to and care for our patients, our of•everything•we•do•and•creating•a•model•that•ensures•that•every•patient•gets•the•right•• health plan members, our fellow employees, care,•in•the•right•way,•at•the•right•time,•every•time. our physicians, and our community. • Harnessing•our•integrated•capabilities•to•deliver•both•superb•state-of-the-art•care•• • Responsibility and integrity to•our•patients•and•high•value•to•our•stakeholders We perform our work with the highest •• Employing•our•partnership•with•the•University•of•Pittsburgh•to•advance•the•• levels of responsibility and integrity. understanding•of•disease,•its•prevention,•treatment•and•cure. Excellence and innovation •• Serving•the•underserved•and•disadvantaged,•and•advancing•excellence•and•• innovation•throughout•health•care. We think creatively and build excellence into everything that we do. •• Fueling•the•development•of•new•businesses•globally•that•are•consistent•with•our•• mission•as•an•ongoing•catalyst•and•driver•of•economic•development•for•the•benefit•• of•the•residents•of•the•region. Altoona Snapshots Fully Accredited 375-bed Adult Joint Commission World-Class by the Joint acute care Level II Designated Emergency Commission teaching hospital Trauma Center Primary Stroke Center Care Our Signature Services Bariatrics Emergency Medicine and Trauma Maternity UPMC Altoona is a Comprehensive Center Our Department of Emergency Medicine Each year, UPMC Altoona helps over for Bariatric Surgery, accredited by the and Trauma Service provides patients 1,000 babies come into the world — American College of Surgeons Metabolic with the best possible care when well more than any facility in the and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and minutes matter most. Our physicians region — with 18 private LDRP rooms, Quality Improvement Program and the and surgeons work with a team that a transitional nursery, and two fully American Society for Metabolic and includes paramedics, critical care nurses, equipped operating rooms. Bariatric Surgery. Accreditation means and radiology and laboratory technicians Regional Stroke Center UPMC Altoona meets the needs of to handle the most complex and UPMC Altoona has been certified as patients by providing multidisciplinary, life-threatening injuries and illnesses. a regional stroke center by The Joint high-quality, patient-centered care. Geriatric Fracture Program Commission. The program follows Breast Health Geriatric bone fractures are a critically national standards and guidelines that The Magee-Womens Specialty Center important health concern. When a fracture can significantly improve outcomes for offers Blair County’s first comprehensive occurs, it can often have devastating and stroke patients. Its mission is to increase breast health service, giving women a long-term consequences. Our program awareness of stroke prevention, warning female centered and enhanced patient uses all of the resources that we have to signs, and the value of early treatment care experience. The focus of the center’s impact this situation and deliver more in the 24-county region it serves. staff, including a board-certified general positive outcomes for these patients and Surgical Services/Robotics surgeon specializing in breast disease, is their families. Surgeries include general, cardiothoracic, to provide compassionate care for women vascular, orthopaedic, ear-nose-throat, by listening, understanding, caring, and HVI The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute at ophthalmologic, gynecologic, urologic, taking the time needed for optimal plastic, podiatric, and other basic and patient care. UPMC Altoona offers community-based care for a range of heart and vascular advanced procedures. UPMC Altoona’s Cancer Care disorders, with access to the most robotic surgery program uses the da Vinci The integration of UPMC Altoona’s advanced treatments, latest devices, and System to provide surgeons with enhanced Radiation Oncology and Medical Oncology leading-edge clinical trials. Our experts capabilities, including high-definition 3D Departments into UPMC Hillman provide comprehensive cardiology, cardiac vision and a magnified view. Cancer Center has brought to our region surgery, and vascular surgery services for Wound Care world-class cancer treatment, backed by patients with a range of heart and blood Our Wound Care and Ostomy Program best practices, leading-edge treatments, vessel conditions. UPMC Altoona is an offers the most advanced treatment for and cancer clinical trials. UPMC Hillman Accredited Chest Pain Center, designated the management of nonhealing wounds. Cancer Center’s partner — the University by the Society of Cardiovascular Care. Ostomy education is offered by staff of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute — is the that includes enterostomal therapists region’s only Comprehensive Cancer providing the latest in ostomy care Center as designated by the National and appliances. Cancer Institute. Our Services •• Allergy•&•Immunology •• Family•Medicine •• Obstetrics•&•Gynecology •• Pediatric• •• Radiology,•• •• Anesthesiology •• Gastroenterology •• Occupational•Medicine Gastroenterology* Interventional •• Bariatric•Surgery •• Hematology/Medical• •• Ophthalmology •• Pediatric•Neonatology* •• Rheumatology •• Behavioral•Health Oncology •• Oral•Surgery/General• •• Pediatrics•&•Newborn •• Reproductive• Endocrinology* •• Breast•Surgery •• Hospital•Medicine Dentistry •• Physical•Medicine•&• Rehabilitation •• Sports•Medicine •• Cardiology •• Infectious•Disease •• Orthopaedics •• Internal•Medicine •• Otolaryngology •• Plastic•&•Reconstructive• •• Surgery •• Cardiology,•Interventional Surgery •• Laboratory•Services •• Pain•Management •• Surgery,•Robotic •• Cardiothoracic•Surgery •• Podiatry •• Maternal•Fetal•Medicine* •• Pediatric•Cardiology* •• Trauma/Surgical•• •• Critical•Care•Medicine •• Psychiatry Critical•Care•Medicine •• Dermatology •• Nephrology,•Dialysis•&• •• Pediatric•Critical•Care• Plasmapheresis Medicine* •• Pulmonary•Medicine •• Urology •• Emergency•Medicine •• Neurology •• Pediatric•Emergency• •• Radiation•Oncology •• Vascular/Thoracic• •• Endocrinology/ Medicine* •• Radiology Surgery Metabolism •• Neurosurgery ALTO503815 JAB/TM 07/17.

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