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UPMC re-implements masking requirements at all hospitals and outpatient facilities
Due to a recent rise in COVID and other respiratory illnesses, UPMC is "strongly encouraging" patients and visitors to wear masks in all of its facilities.
UPMC now recommending, not requiring masks at all facilities amid respiratory illness surge
UPMC is recommending, not requiring masks at its hospitals and outpatient facilities — which is a change from guidance issued earlier this week.
UPMC requiring masks to help curb spread of respiratory illnesses
UPMC said it's bringing back masks to try and curb the spread of respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, the flu and RSV. Patients, visitors, support persons and staff will be requir
Masking recommended, not required in UPMC facilities despite initial guidance
After multiple news outlets reported that UPMC would require masking in all of its facilities this week, the company confirmed no such mandate is scheduled to go into effect. Several news outlets on Tuesday published stories that UPMC would require masks within their facilities starting Wednesday,
UPMC will soon require masks in all hospitals, outpatient areas due to rise in respiratory illnesses
PITTSBURGH — UPMC said that it will soon require all patients, visitors, support persons and staff to wear masks in its patient care areas due to a rise in respiratory illnesses. Masks will be required in all UPMC hospitals and outpatient areas starting on Feb. 12, according to a Facebook post on the Children’s Community Pediatrics page.
Masks at UPMC 'strongly encouraged' but not required
A UPMC spokesperson says the health system’s policy now states that masks are “strongly encouraged” as flu, Covid and RSV cases are on the rise.
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‘Devastating blow’: UPMC Cole’s labor and delivery closure expands state’s maternity desert
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UPMC revises masking policy; visitors & patients now 'recommended' to wear one
Earlier this week, UPMC officials announced that the hospital system would reimplement its masking policy, beginning Feb. 12, ...
UPMC reinstates mandatory masking at all of its hospitals, doctors offices. What to know
UPMC is once again requiring patients, staff and visitors to wear face masks at its hospitals and medical offices due to a ...
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Rural maternal health at top of mind as UPMC Cole loses childbirth services
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UPMC hospital to close maternity unit
UPMC Cole Hospital in Coudersport, PA to close obstetrics unit and consolidate services at UPMC Wellsboro Hospital.