UPMC St. Margaret
| UPMC St. Margaret | |
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| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°29′21″N 79°53′46″W / 40.4893°N 79.8960°WCoordinates: 40°29′21″N 79°53′46″W / 40.4893°N 79.8960°W |
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| Care system | Private |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Hospital type | Community |
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| Beds | 249 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1898 |
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| Website | http://stmargaret.upmc.com/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Pennsylvania |
UPMC St. Margaret is a mid-sized, acute care, teaching community hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, located in the Waterworks area of Pittsburgh, near Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. Situated on 21 acres (85,000 m2), the hospital has 249 beds with more than 800 physicians and 1,500 clinical staff members. UPMC Saint Margaret is a leader in hospital technology, making patient records almost 100% electronic. In March 2009, UPMC St. Margaret achieved Magnet Recognition status. Magnet status is the highest international recognition for nursing excellence and leadership.[1]
History
Margaret Cust was born in 1809 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Margaret married John Shoenberger in the mid-1830s, where they lived a gracious life in Pittsburgh. They lived in a beautiful mansion on Penn Avenue. Today, their home is the site of Gateway Center. In 1837, they built a second house in Collinstown, which is now called Lawrenceville. The home was the site of the first Saint Margaret Hospital.
Margaret and John Shoenberger lived the ideal life in the nineteenth century; however, their wealth could not buy good health and children. Their great-nephew and great-niece were named after them but they died young. Margaret Cust Blair died at age thirteen and Thomas Shoenberger Blair lived from 1848 to 1852. Also, Margaret's health was declining. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1870s. She died at her home in Lawrenceville on August 30, 1878.
After Margaret died, John Shoenberger moved to New York City. He sold his Lawrenceville estate to Allegheny Cemetery. In New York City, he married Alice E. Taylor. John Shoenberger died in New York on November 12, 1889. John left the people of Pittsburgh about $10 million ($259.8 million today), along with more than 3 acres (12,000 m2) of land to build and maintain a hospital to immortalize his first wife. It shall forever be called and known as St. Margaret Hospital.[2] The hospital was dedicated in 1898 on 46th Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood, where it remained for 82 years, to maintain it. The Protestant Episcopal Church originally elected its board of trustees.[3]
Throughout the 1970s, the committee realized that St. Margaret didn't belong in Lawrenceville anymore. A location that appealed to the Long Range Planning Committee was the site of Pittsburgh's former water filtration plant, across the Allegheny from Lawrenceville and adjacent to the Borough of Aspinwall.[4] The St. Margaret family broke ground on November 29, 1976. The new building was ready by March 1980.
In 1994, St. Margaret first partnered up with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) as part of the Tri-State Health System.[5] In 1996, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital officially merged with UPMC and became UPMC St. Margaret.[6] UPMC St. Margaret has stated its dedication to maintain its mission of service to the community.[7]
Facilities
Besides UPMC St. Margaret's main hospital, it also oversees UPMC Natrona Heights, the UPMC St. Margaret Harmar Outpatient Center in as well as family health centers located in Lawrenceville, Bloomfield-Garfield, and New Kensington. UPMC St. Margaret also runs the St. Margaret School of Nursing, which offers an RN program, and has UPMC St. Margaret School of Practical Nursing campuses in Blawnox and McKeesport that offer LPNs.
In 2013, UPMC St. Margaret opened the Neil Y. Van Horn Pavilion & Helen and Miles Colwell Garden of Hope which provides patients with a library and information center as well as garden.
Services
UPMC St. Margaret services include:
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References
- ↑ "About UPMC St. Margaret". UPMC. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
- ↑ Brignano, Mary (1998). The Story of St. Margaret. Pittsburgh: UPMC St. Margaret. p. 29.
- ↑ "Our History". UPMC. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
- ↑ Brignano, Mary (1998). The Story of St. Margaret. Pittsburgh: UPMC St. Margaret. p. 84.
- ↑ Levine, Steve (December 28, 2005). "Empire Building: Clash of the Titans". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA). Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- ↑ Gaynor, Pamela (February 28, 1996). "The healing power of medical mergers". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- ↑ Brignano, Mary (1998). The Story of St. Margaret. Pittsburgh: UPMC St. Margaret. p. 104.
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