Caring for the Critically Ill

Our critical care physicians and advanced practice providers deliver around-the-clock patient care for critically ill and injured patients across the UPMC Health System. These patients benefit from cutting-edge research pursued by the very same physicians who are at their bedside providing evidence-based care.

As influential leaders in the global medical community, we are known for groundbreaking clinical innovations and as champions of excellence in health care for the critically ill. Our faculty members are divided into two divisions: adult critical care and pediatric critical care.

Division of Adult Critical Care

• UPMC Presbyterian-Montefiore
  • Cardiothoracic ICU
  • Neurotrauma ICU
  • Neurovascular ICU
  • Surgical Trauma ICU
  • Transplant ICU
• UPMC Magee Womens Hospital
  • Adult Medical-Surgical and Obstetric ICU
• UPMC Mercy
  • Medical-Neuro ICU
  • Medical Surgical ICU
  • Trauma Burn ICU 
• Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System
  • Surgical ICU
  • Medical/Surgical ICU

Division of Pediatric Critical Care

• UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Pediatric ICU
  • Pediatric Cardiac ICU
  • Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program
• St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, Tampa, Florida
  • Pediatric ICU
  • Pediatric Cardiovascular ICU
• Wolfson Children's Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida
  • Pediatric Cardiac ICU

Other Clinical Services

UPMC ICU Service Center

The UPMC ICU Service Center was founded in 2016 to deliver the highest quality of critical care with the greatest degree of compassion for our critically ill patients and their families. Since its creation—and despite the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting the allocation of resources—the Service Center made significant progress on its mandate to build a critical care model that standardizes and integrates care delivery across the UPMC system.

The ICU Service Center focuses on an array of diverse initiatives aimed at mitigating scarcity of supplies and medications, reducing low-value care, and priming the health system to be operationally smarter and more efficient. The ICU Service Center prides itself on two key elements of success: first, a closely aligned working relationship with multi-disciplinary and cross-departmental clinical leaders and, second, a boldness to challenge assumptions which, in turn, empower ICU teams to embrace new models of care.

 Rapid Response Teams

Departmental clinicians are also responsible for the Rapid Response Teams at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, UPMC Magee Women's Hospital, and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Rapid Response Teams are the on-site emergency resource for hospital patients who become clinically unstable, especially after hours.

Critical Illness Recovery Center

The Critical Illness Recovery Center at UPMC Mercy (CIRC) provides customized medical care to individuals who have survived a prolonged ICU stay. The CIRC multidisciplinary team helps survivors of critical illness address their physical, mental and emotional challenges—known as post-intensive care syndrome—with the goal of improving quality of life.

Organ Donation Support Team

Departmental physicians staff the UPMC Organ Donation Support Team to ensure adherence to current medical ethics for organ donation as well as to maximize recovery of viable donor organs. The Organ Donation Support Team collaborates closely with the not-for-profit Center for Organ Recovery and Education, one of 58 federally designated organ procurement organizations in the United States.