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Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Completes Historic Move to Lawrenceville With Successful Patient Relocation
May 4, 2009Pittsburgh, Pa. - May 2, 2009 - The new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC officially opened today, completing the final phase of its historic move with the successful relocation of 153 inpatients to a new state-of-the-art campus in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
The patient move began at 7 a.m. and was completed in less than seven hours. It involved a team of more than 275 nurses, physicians, administrators and other staff from Children’s Hospital, as well as Emergency Medical Services personnel. More than 40 ambulances from communities in Allegheny, Beaver and Washington counties were involved in transporting the patients 2.5 miles from Children’s Hospital’s Oakland facility to the new hospital in Lawrenceville.
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