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UPMC Washington, UPMC Greene celebrate their new affiliation
WASHINGTON, Pa. — What a difference a year makes. On Wednesday, UPMC Washington hosted a celebration at the hospital to commemorate its new affiliation with UPMC. The celebration, which included flag-raisings at now renamed UPMC Washington and UPMC Greene in Waynesburg, comes one year after the health systems announced plans to merge.
Severe thunderstorm watch affecting Southwest Pa. until Friday night
On Friday at 2:25 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 9 p.m. for Allegheny, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties. When lightning looms: Expert safety tips for thunderstorms. Each year, lightning strikes the United States approximately 25 million times, with the majority of these...
2024 Washington-Greene Hall of Fame class
The 38th annual Washington-Greene Co. Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet took place June 9 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Southpointe. Inductees included, front row, from left: Paul Stanley, basketball, Waynesburg University; Jeff Frazier, golf, Washington H.S. and Washington & Jefferson College; Frank Sworden, head coach representing the 1994 McGuffey Highlanders, Team of Yesteryear, football; Kathy Knabb, cross country, track, Peters Township H.S. and North Carolina State; Ramont Small, football, track, Ringgold H.S., University of Akron and Washington & Jefferson; Terry Havelka, coach, athlete, administrator, wrestling and football, Burgettstown H.S. and William & Mary University; and Jim Vulcano, athlete, coach, wrestling, Chartiers-Houston H.S.
UPMC, Washington Health System celebrate merger
WASHINGTON — Washington Hospital, which is 127 years old, is now officially UPMC Washington. The Pittsburgh-based health care giant celebrated its move into Washington and Greene counties Wednesday. The takeover came as a relief to local officials who feared the financially stressed hospital could close in the next few...
Milestone moment: UPMC Washington, UPMC Greene celebrate new affiliation
What a difference a year makes. On Wednesday, UPMC Washington hosted a celebration at the hospital to commemorate its new affiliation with UPMC. The celebration, which included flag-raisings at now renamed UPMC Washington and UPMC Greene in Waynesburg, comes one year after the health systems announced plans to merge. Officials...
‘Much good is yet to come’: UPMC, Washington Health System celebrate merger
Leslie Davis has a seemingly impossible goal: expand health care services while cutting the overall cost of care at Pennsylvania’s biggest hospital network. But that’s precisely the goal that Ms. Davis, president and CEO of UPMC, outlined Wednesday after welcoming Washington Health System to the UPMC portfolio of providers at a news conference at Washington Hospital. As of June 1, WHS and its hospitals in Washington and Greene counties became part of UPMC when the Federal Trade Commission declined to intervene in the deal.
‘He Had One Job to Do!’: Charges Dropped for Pennsylvania 911 Dispatcher Who Refused to Send Ambulance for a Bleeding, Dying Woman Due to Lack of Consent
Prosecutors in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, have dropped criminal charges against a 911 dispatcher accused of refusing to send help to a woman who died in her […] ‘He Had One Job to Do!’: Charges Dropped for Pennsylvania 911 Dispatcher Who Refused to Send Ambulance for a Bleeding, Dying Woman Due to Lack of Consent
Involuntary manslaughter case dropped against 911 dispatcher in Pennsylvania woman’s death
Prosecutors this week dropped an involuntary manslaughter case against a 911 dispatcher in Pennsylvania who had been accused of failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who was found dead a day later of internal bleeding.
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