UPMC signs on as official sponsor for Farm Aid
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a $10 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has more than 62,000 employees, 21 hospitals with more than 4,700 licensed beds, 400 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 2.2 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and international ventures. UPMC is closely affiliated with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh. It is considered a leading American health care provider, as its flagship facilities have ranked in US News & World Report "Honor Roll" of the approximately 15 to 20 best hospitals in America for well over a decade. As of 2013, UPMC is ranked 10th nationally among the best hospitals by US News & World Report and ranked in 15 of 16 specialty areas, including eight specialties for which UPMC placed in the top 10. This does not include Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC which ranked in the top 10 of pediatric centers in a separate US News ranking.
About Property:
Farm Aid started as a benefit concert on September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, held to raise money for family farmers in the United States. The concert was organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt.