After four years of planning and construction,
UPMC Passavant in the North Hills has opened its 220,000-square-foot Patient Pavilion.
The LEED-certified facility was designed by Burt Hill, and P.J. Dick served as contractor. Total project costs were $140 million.
The seven-story Patient Pavilion, which has 88 private patient rooms, provides cancer, cardiac and spine care in new state-of-heart surgical and medical facilities. The Pavilion also houses an expanded emergency department that increases the hospital's capacity from 35,000 to 60,000 visits annually, and has concierge and valet services, patient and family resource centers and an outdoor healing garden.
Along with the new Pavilion construction, UPMC Passavant's entrance and exit routes have been redesigned and reconstructed to make arrivals and departures easier, and UPMC Passavant has created Cumberland Road, a new public thoroughfare that connects Babcock Boulevard with Peebles Road.
UPMC Passavant has evolved from a community hospital into a "world-class tertiary care clinic," says Teresa Petrick, president of UPMC Passavant. In the past six years, the hospital's inpatient volume has grown more than 30 percent, and the number of inpatient and outpatients who come to UPMC Passavant from outside of Allegheny County and Pennsylvania has doubled.
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Writer: Caralyn Green
Source: Teresa Petrick, president, UPMC Passavant
Image courtesy of UPMC