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UPMC, a world-renowned health care provider and insurer, is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. With a central mission of providing outstanding, accessible patient care, UPMC is shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and technological innovation, research, and education. As the largest nongovernmental employer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - with more than 95,000 employees within its various controlled health care entities - UPMC encompasses 40 hospitals and approximately 800 doctors' offices and outpatient sites. By integrating its health care services with an insurance division focused on promoting the health of its members, UPMC is advancing the quality and efficiency of health care, and developing internationally renowned programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, women's health, psychiatry, geriatrics, orthopedics, and sports medicine, among others. These highly specialized services draw patients from across the nation and around the world. Closely affiliated with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC's flagship hospital, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, is consistently ranked among the nation's best hospitals in many specialties by U.S. News & World Report. UPMC's Health Services Division encompasses a comprehensive array of clinical capabilities. This division includes academic, community, and regional hospitals; pre- and post-acute care capabilities; specialty service lines, such as transplantation services, women's health, behavioral health, pediatrics, cancer care, and rehabilitation services; contract services, such as emergency medicine, pharmacy, and laboratory; and more than 5,000 employed physicians with associated practices. UPMC's organ transplant center is one of the largest and busiest in the world, performing more than 20,000 transplants since 1981. The UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is one of the largest integrated community cancer networks in the United States with more than 70 centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Maryland, and more than 2,000 physicians, researchers, and staff. UPMC's expertise in academic-based and specialized medical care, including transplantation and oncology, is key to the globalization efforts being undertaken through its International Division, which promotes the exchange of scientific knowledge worldwide, while generating revenue that is reinvested locally. In managing its global health enterprise, UPMC has taken a leadership role in good corporate governance practices - voluntarily achieving Sarbanes-Oxley certification for eighteen years in a row, publicly releasing quarterly financial results within 60 days of each quarter's close, and creating one of the most stringent industry relationship policies to ensure that pharmaceutical and medical device companies do not negatively influence patient care. These business practices set the stage for decision making that is good for UPMC and the communities it serves. High-Quality, Patient-Focused Care By leveraging resources and expertise across its global network, UPMC has achieved significant gains in the delivery of high-quality, patient-focused care that is evidence based. The Wolff Center at UPMC coordinates and connects quality, safety, patient care, and innovative improvements to ensure patients receive the safest and highest quality care. The Wolff Center partners with colleagues across UPMC to improve health care delivery for patients and health plan members. These collaborations support effective and efficient care transformations to achieve high quality and safe outcomes. The Wolff Center's expertise includes enterprise-wide quality data and analytics to inform initiatives that target operational excellence, patient and employee experience, quality care and process improvement, and regulatory, patient safety, and emergency preparedness. In fiscal year 2023, the Wolff Center continued to provide leadership and infrastructure to employees, patients, and communities during the transition of COVID-19 from a pandemic to an endemic infectious disease, with continued COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, and care as needed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services COVID-19 guidelines that were put in place at the height of the pandemic are being carefully evaluated for continued necessity. Last year, the Wolff Center implemented new processes to streamline workflow, improve documentation, standardize education, and improve patient safety. A focus on quality and safety outcomes was maintained to strengthen the patient safety culture and achieve targeted improvements in clinical areas, including congestive heart failure care, urinary infection testing, and palliative care, all in alignment with UPMC's strategic clinical priorities. Additionally, the Wolff Center supported the UPMC experience by ensuring our goals of excellent care, clinical care coordination, discharge planning, and clinical practice access were met. The Wolff Center at UPMC also monitors and improves infection prevention, patient care models, health equity for underserved communities, and emergency preparedness.
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