Welcome from Chief Robert McCaughan
I am pleased to welcome you to our EMS home on the City of Pittsburgh's website.
 Pittsburgh EMS is dedicated to bringing compassionate, life-saving emergency medical care to our streets, our homes and our workplaces -- to the very hearts of our residents and visitors -- thus making Pittsburgh a safer and healthier place to live.
Pittsburgh EMS is recognized across the world as a leader in the provision of prehospital emergency care. Amongst our honors, Pennsylvania's Governor symbolically signed the State's EMS Act of 1985 in one of our stations,
and in 2000 we were awarded Pennsylvania's Ambulance Service of the Year. However, no honor is more significant than the sincere words of thanks and praise we receive from our patients for helping them in their time of need.
With over
175 Paramedics, responding nearly
55,000 times each year, Pittsburgh EMS provides a wide range of
services including Advanced Life Support prehospital care, medically
directed Technical Rescue from a wide variety of accidents and entrapments, River Rescue, ALS coverage at special community events, community education in CPR/AED, and much more.
I encourage
you to spend time at our site exploring Pittsburgh EMS, what we
do, where we are in your community, and how we can be of service
to you. And, if you have an interest in becoming a member
of our EMS team, visit the Personnel
website to
see if we are currently recruiting personnel.
If I can be
of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me through the
links provided.
Thank you for visiting our website.
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