University Times

UPMC once again is the region’s only medical center named on the annual U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals. UPMC is ranked 13th of only 21 hospitals nationwide that made the Honor Roll of the “nation’s best” in the 2009 survey. UPMC was ranked in 13 of 16 specialty areas, […]

For the 11th consecutive year, UPMC has been named one of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems in the United States, according to the 2009 survey by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association. UPMC is one of only five organizations to appear on the list since its […]

Magee-Womens Hospital recently was honored by two organizations. Magee won a first-place achievement award from the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) in patient safety for achievements in researching and improving the process for elective induction of labor. Dennis English, vice president of medical affairs at Magee, and a team of obstetricians and nurses […]

School of Information Sciences professor emeritus and nationally known civil rights advocate for minority librarians E.J. Josey died of natural causes July 3, 2009, in Washington, N.C. He was 85. Josey, who taught courses such as Academic Librarianship and Libraries in Society, served on the SIS faculty from 1986 to 1995, when he retired. He […]