Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine is one of the most exciting, dynamic, and rapidly growing specialties in medicine. West Penn Allegheny Health System serves a five-state region as a Level I Shock Trauma Center (the highest certification available), supported by our LifeFlight air-medical service, the first to fly in the Northeastern United States.

Our system services and facilities include:

• Regional Resource (Level I) Shock Trauma Center
• Board-certified emergency medicine physicians
• Full-service emergency departments available 24/7 at Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Valley Hospital, Canonsburg General Hospital, Forbes Regional Hospital and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital.
• Emergency helicopter services through LifeFlight
• Certified emergency nurses
• Rapid medical intervention
• Medical command to ambulance services
• Level I hazardous materials receiving facility (accredited by the Allegheny County Department of Health)
• Advanced applied pharmacology and research in pharmaceutical agents