UPMC plans second hospital in Sicily

UPMC is planning a second hospital in Italy as part of a 10-year renewal of the management agreement with the Region of Sicily on its transplant hospital in Palermo. The agreement announced Tuesday involves Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione (ISMETT), which Sicily and UPMC began in 1997. It now has 78 beds but will be increased to 114; it is a government-approved research hospital that provides, along other things, liver t ransplantation and complex pediatric…
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