UPMC\u2019s $1.3 billion hospital tower in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood finally has an opening date.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 24, 2027, scores of patients at UPMC Presbyterian will be transferred from the existing building to a new, 17-story facility right next door.<\/p>\n
Once all patients are moved, the old structure will become administrative space.<\/p>\n
UPMC officials previously said the tower\u2019s first day of operation will be in 2027, but until this week, the exact opening date was not made known to the public.<\/p>\n
The 636-bed tower at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and De Soto Street will focus on transplants, cardiology and neurology. It will come with a 450-spot parking garage as well as restaurants, meeting areas and other public spaces on its first four floors.<\/p>\n
Construction started in 2022 and is expected to wrap up in October. From there, UPMC will conduct a series of rehearsals through December to ensure the building\u2019s \u201cfacilities, paths of travel and patient care areas are set up ideally,\u201d Rader said.<\/p>\n
The effort to expand UPMC\u2019s flagship hospital has stuck to original timelines and cost estimates.<\/p>\n
In July, UPMC named the project the Kamin Tower following a $65 million donation<\/a> to the organization from philanthropists Daniel G. and Carole L. <\/a>Kamin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPMC\u2019s $1.3 billion hospital tower in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood finally has an opening date. On Jan. 24, 2027,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-365811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}