{"id":162776,"date":"2026-04-10T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:32:17","slug":"upmc-cuts-ribbon-on-outpatient-center-in-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162776\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC cuts ribbon on outpatient center in Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh added a new addition to their hub of pediatric care here in Erie. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, they cut the ribbon on UPMC Children\u2019s Rehabilitation Therapies, which is an outpatient center providing physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy for children of all ages.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/how-to-help-your-stress-during-national-stress-awareness-month\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tHow to help your stress during National Stress Awareness Month\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is located right beside the UPMC Children\u2019s second specialty care center, making it more convenient for local children and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t have to drive down to Pittsburgh, so it\u2019s going to be great that we\u2019re going to receive that level of care here in town, and it\u2019s going to be less stress on him overall. And it\u2019s going to be good for the other families too,\u201d said Michael Arment, father of an outpatient. <\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/ecgra-celebrates-600000-in-grants-awarded-to-lead-asset-organizations\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tECGRA celebrates $600,000 in grants awarded to lead asset organizations\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess is important; we want parents to be able to pick up the phone, make a call, and have their child seen in short order,\u201d said Diane Hupp, president of UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>Hupp said that the facility was designed not only for function, but also to be warm and inviting to the children who visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh added a new addition to their hub of pediatric care here in Erie.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-162776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}