UPMC to co-manage cancer hospital in Lithuania

UPMC's global reach is about to extend to the Baltics. Lithuania Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius is expected in Pittsburgh today to sign a 15-year, multimillion-dollar deal with UPMC to co-manage a still-to-be-constructed 100-bed cancer hospital in the nation's capital scheduled to open in 2017. When finished, the Vilnius hospital will offer standard cancer care as well as higher-level care such as stereotactic radiosurgery that targets tumors with radiation beams.