UPMC Chautauqua Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Merger

It has been 10 years since the former WCA Hospital in Jamestown became affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Hospital staff and officials held a celebration on Thursday in recognition of that merger. UPMC Chautauqua President and CEO Tracy Gates says they celebrated with two-and-a-half sheets of birthday cake with staff and employees. Gates says the hospital -- at any one time -- employs between 800 and 1,000 people...

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Gates noted that UPMC has invested just over $90 million to hospital upgrades over the past 10 years, and this past year, they've hired 15 new doctors and surgeons. However, she says they're not done...

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Gates also touted their new records management system being added to more quickly identify what's wrong with someone when their brought into the Emergency Department from an accident or illness.

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