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About Us UPMC
Events Named among the nation's top 100 hospitals and to Consumers Digest’s list of 50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals, UPMC St. Margaret is a 250-bed acute care and teaching hospital situated on a 21-acre campus near Aspinwall. It begins its second century of service with renewed dedication to more than 250,000 residents of northeastern Allegheny County and the Alle-Kiski Valley, providing residents convenient access to the area’s finest physicians and health services. At UPMC St. Margaret, more than 800 primary care and specialty physicians and 1,500 clinical and support staff members work together to provide patients with quality care and the latest technical and medical advances. To this end, UPMC St. Margaret is in the forefront of implementing eRecord, UPMC's electronic system of patient medical records. Because all of our patient rooms are private and equipped with a computer, our physicians and health professionals can use eRecord to electronically update medical records at the patient's bedside. UPMC St. Margaret is one of the first community hospitals in the region to utilize this advanced technology. The hospital also offers:
Two medical office buildings with capacity for more than 100 physicians, as well as cardiac rehabilitation and a state-of-the-art sports medicine center, are also located on the hospital campus. Other medical facilities include:
Mission,
Vision, and Values The hospital was honored recently to be named one of the country’s Top 100 performing hospitals in a study by Solucient measuring quality care, efficiency, financial performance, and community growth. UPMC St. Margaret is dedicated to meeting the health care and health education needs of a defined population in a high quality, cost effective manner as part of UPMC and in partnership with other community resources. We aim to provide the right patient care, every time, ensuring the highest level of quality care and patient satisfaction. To achieve our mission, UPMC St. Margaret is guided by the following values:
Our
History Upon his death, Shoenberger bequeathed $800,000 — $10 million today — and three acres of land on the family’s summer estate in Lawrenceville, to build a hospital to honor his wife. In 1898, the hospital was dedicated and the Protestant Episcopal Church elected a board of trustees to maintain it. From its original location on 46th Street in Lawrenceville, the hospital served residents of the city’s east neighborhoods and the river towns that dotted the northern shore of the Allegheny River for 82 years. To be closer to the communities it served, St. Margaret in 1980 made an unprecedented move across the river to the site of the former City of Pittsburgh Water Filtration Plant near Aspinwall. There, the community and advanced teaching hospital thrived, providing general care for 230,000 residents of 19 municipalities, along with specialty care in arthritis, orthopaedics, geriatrics, and family practice teaching. In 1997, St. Margaret became the first Pittsburgh hospital to merge with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, strengthening its capabilities to serve its community. In 2004, UPMC St. Margaret admitted more than 12,800 patients, had approximately 33,000 patients visit the emergency room, was the site of 11,000 surgeries performed, and had outpatient volumes well above 200,000 — the highest levels in hospital history. To learn more about the history of UPMC St. Margaret, a book titled The Story of St. Margaret by Mary Brignano is available by calling UPMC St. Margaret Community Relations at 412-784-5160.
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