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UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals

Acute Care Hospitals · Voluntary non-profit - Private

409 South Second Street
Harrisburg, PA 17104

Call (717) 782-3131

Emergency services
Medicare overall rating: 4 of 5 stars

Clinicians who list this hospital: 1,801
Physicians (MD and DO): 1,303
Residents and fellows in training (full-time equivalents, fiscal year 2025): 189
Medical groups: 15+

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Quality and patient experience

Medicare overall rating (of 5): 4
Patient survey rating (of 5): 3
Patients who would definitely recommend it (national average 71%): 73%

Compared with the national rate

Measures	Better	Same	Worse
Deaths after treatment	2	6	0
Safety of care (infections, complications)	2	6	0
Readmissions and return visits	1	9	1

Number of Medicare quality measures where this hospital’s rate is statistically better than, the same as (no different from), or worse than the national rate.

What patients said

Doctors communicated well 3 of 5 stars
Nurses communicated well 4 of 5 stars
Explained medicines 2 of 5 stars
Discharge information 3 of 5 stars
Clean 4 of 5 stars
Quiet at night 4 of 5 stars

From 450 patient surveys (HCAHPS), period ending 09/30/2025.

Medicare “birthing-friendly” hospital: takes part in a maternity care quality program and follows recommended safety practices.

Source: CMS Care Compare (Hospital General Information; Patient survey HCAHPS). Ratings describe the hospital overall, not individual doctors.

Physicians by specialty

Other clinicians

Medical groups whose clinicians work here

Number of each group’s clinicians who list this hospital.

Industry-funded research here

Drug and device companies reported $94,354 in research payments to this hospital in 2025 for 7 studies.

Prospective, Multicenter, Single-Arm IDE Study of the Shockwave Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) System With the Shockwave C2+ 2Hz Coronary IVL Catheter in Calcified Coronary Arteries (Disrupt CAD Duo Study)
Shockwave Medical, Inc · $42,935
A Prospective Randomized Single-Blind Multicenter Study to Assess the Safety and Effectiveness of the SELUTION SLR 014 PTCA Drug Eluting Balloon in the Treatment of Subjects With De Novo Coronary Lesions in Small Vessels
Medalliance LLC · $16,672
Post Approval Study (PAS) of the OPTIMIZER Smart and CCM Therapy
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. · $11,700 · Active, not recruiting
A Prospective Randomized Single Blind Multicenter Study to Assess the Safety and Effectiveness of the SELUTION SLR 014 Drug Eluting Balloon in the Treatment of Subjects With In-stent Restenosis
Medalliance LLC · $11,285
Shortcut Pivotal Study
Pi-cardia, Inc. · $7,695
Endocrine Therapy With or Without Abemaciclib (LY2835219) Following Surgery in Participants With Breast Cancer
Eli Lilly and Company · $4,011 · Active, not recruiting
SPYRAL AFFIRM
Medtronic, Inc. · $56

From CMS Open Payments research payments to this hospital as a teaching hospital. Payments to affiliated universities or research foundations are reported under those names. All industry-funded trials →

Other hospitals in the same county

Milton S Hershey Medical Center 1,995

Sources: CMS Hospital General Information and Doctors and Clinicians Facility Affiliation (Care Compare), CMS certification number 390067. Counts are clinicians who list this hospital with Medicare; they include part-time and visiting clinicians and aren’t staff totals. Residents and beds are from the hospital’s Medicare cost report. Ratings are Medicare’s, not ours.

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