{"id":212531,"date":"2026-06-06T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:40:09","slug":"upmc-childrens-hospital-of-pittsburgh-opens-state-of-the-art-heart-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212531\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh opens state-of-the-art heart institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 It was a big week at UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Thursday, officials cut the ribbon at the brand-new UPMC Children\u2019s Heart Institute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The state-of-the-art facility will advance heart care for kids and provide lifelong support for those with congenital heart conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials say the new space will expand innovation and hope for patients and their families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWith our Heart Institute, we have one goal in mind,\u201c said Diane Hupp, the president of Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh. \u201dThat goal is to ensure every child and patient that comes through our doors receives expert pediatric care with compassion and kindness and service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The institute cares for patients from Pittsburgh, across the country and all around the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 It was a big week at UPMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh. On Thursday, officials cut the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49135,73,93157,75,74,20077,93156],"class_list":["post-212531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-heart-institute","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-childrens-heart-institute","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-upmc-childrens-hospital","tag-upmc-childrens-hospital-of-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212531","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=212531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}