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UPMC today announced its support of Harrisburg University’s new health sciences tower and program development with a 10-year financial commitment. The newly named UPMC Health Sciences Tower at Harrisburg University will open in fall 2023. 

“UPMC and Harrisburg University share a commitment to our community. Our partnership is crucial to training the next generation of health care workers,” said Lou Baverso, president, UPMC in Central Pa. “This space will provide new opportunities for students pursuing careers in health care, and we’re excited to be part of it.” 

The twelve-story UPMC Health Sciences Tower at Harrisburg University will house classrooms, skills labs, science labs, and simulation spaces for multiple health care programs, including nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, exercise sciences, and other allied health programs. The building also will include classrooms and training space for advanced manufacturing and interactive media programs, auditoriums, and student life and tutoring areas. 

It will also include expanded classroom and lab space for the UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing at UPMC Harrisburg. Launched in August 2022, the UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing is a 16-month accelerated diploma program for registered nurses (RNs).  

“The philanthropic and community-minded leadership UPMC demonstrated is historic for our community and region. This investment will directly support the health care workforce and make Harrisburg the anchor for Eds & Meds in our region,” said Eric Darr, president, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.  


About UPMC 

A $24 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates more than 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a more than 4 million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.5 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state, and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial, and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation’s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. For more information, go to UPMC.com.  

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About Harrisburg University 

Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Harrisburg University is a private non-profit university offering bachelor and graduate degree programs in science, technology, and math fields. For more information on the University’s affordable demand-driven undergraduate and graduate programs, call 717.901.5146 or email Connect@HarrisburgU.edu.

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