News Release

SOME HOSPITAL FACILITIES STAYING
IN THEIR EXISTING LOCATIONS

Oct. 5, 2004 — When the new UPMC Northwest hospital opens on Friday, these hospital facilities and services will stay in their existing locations or move to other sites:

• The Rehabilitation Center – This inpatient rehabilitation unit will remain on the second floor at the hospital’s Oil City campus.
• Transitional Care Unit (TCU) – Will remain on the third floor at the Oil City campus.
• Radiation Oncology Unit – The hospital will provide radiation treatment in the West Unit in Franklin until the new hospital radiation oncology unit is finished, tentatively in December.
• Wound Clinic – This facility has moved from the Franklin campus to the former SurgiCare unit on the third floor at the Oil City campus.
• Outpatient Rehabilitation Services – UPMC Northwest will continue to provide outpatient physical and occupational therapy at its Outpatient Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Center, 112 Circle St., Franklin. It also will provide outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy on the second floor at its Oil City campus, 174 E. Bissell Ave.
• The Sleep Center – This unit that specializes in evaluating sleep disorders will remain in the West Unit in Franklin.
• Medication Clinic – This outpatient service for behavioral health patients will move on Monday, Oct. 18, from the Rowe Building at the Oil City campus to the West Unit at the Franklin campus.
• Drug and Alcohol Counseling – This outpatient behavioral health service also will relocate October 18 from the Rowe Building in Oil City to the West Unit in Franklin.
• Open MRI Center – This facility that opened earlier this year along Route 8 in Reno will continue to provide open MRI, CT and related services.
• Family Practice Center – All UPMC Northwest-affiliated family practice centers – in Emlenton, Knox, Clarion and Grove City – will remain open with the same services.