UPMC McKeesport is still going strong after 125 years
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
For the past 125 years, residents of McKeesport and the Upper Mon Valley have enjoyed access to a community hospital. On Friday, community members joined city and hospital leaders to celebrate the “birthday” and history of UPMC McKeesport.
The doors at the facility, formerly known as McKeesport Hospital, first opened on April 19, 1894. The hospital is a nonprofit acute care community hospital that serves the 200,000 residents of McKeesport and the surrounding area.
It offers 216 beds for acute care patients and 56 beds for patients who need skilled nursing care. Along with a separate Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Care Unit, the hospital offers ongoing rehabilitation and educational programs to patients with cardiac, neurological and orthopedic diagnoses. A state-of-the-art emergency room opened in December of 1999. McKeesport Hospital merged with UPMC in April 1998.
“The resources of UPMC have allowed UPMC McKeesport to enhance its commitment to the community,” O’Hern said. “This commitment is visible through the health care services the hospital provides as well as through the community-focused programs sponsored by the McKeesport Hospital Foundation. Today is Good Friday, but it is also a great Friday here at the hospital. We are proud to celebrate the 125th anniversary of this community-based institution.”
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