On Thursday, UPMC unveiled its Uptown Mercy Pavilion, which will be the home of UPMC's Vision and Rehabilitation Institutes.
The facility is designed to offer patient-centered care in vision medicine and rehabilitation, and will be accessible to this in Western Pennsvylania and those around the world.
The nine-story building, located next to Mercy Hospital, spans 410,000 square feet and cost UPMC $510 million to construct.
John Innocenti, President of UPMC Mercy, joined the Big K Morning Show Friday.
"We combine not on clinical care that's provided to these patients, but the research care," he said. "It's an opportunity for researchers to interact with their clinical partnerships, bringing those changes to life, those things that happen in a clinical world, with the researchers to make them move quaker."
The facility is UPMC's first new construction in over a decade.
"We have 78 faculty members, 30 residents. We've already received $700 million in funding from the National Institutes for Health.
"We've had 120 clinical trials already ini place, we have 22 laboratories in place here. The whole idea is to bring these things that people think of in the future into reality today."
Innocenti said that Mercy Hospital is also undergoing massive renovations to operating rooms and other areas.
Hear all of John Innocenti's interview with the Big K Morning Show here.
