Founded in 1885 on Pittsburgh's historic North Side, Allegheny General Hospital has earned an international reputation for excellence and innovation in the care of patients, medical education and research.  Serving Pittsburgh and the surrounding five-state area, the 698-bed academic health center offers a wide array of medical and surgical services.

    AGH has been listed among America's Best Hospitals by both U.S. News & World Report magazine and HCIA-Sachs, a leading healthcare industry research organization. It also enjoys a reputation as the region's most preferred health care provider, as voted by consumers in a poll conducted by the National Research Corporation.

    The hospital has earned a reputation for exceptional expertise in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, diagnostic radiology, ear, nose and throat care, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, women’s care and transplant surgery.

    It serves a five-state region as a Level I Shock Trauma Center (the highest certification available), supported by its LifeFlight air-medical service, the first to fly in the Northeastern United States.

Our Cancer Center is one of the nation's most advanced facilities, offering patients access to state-of-the-art programs for the complete spectrum of malignant disease, including centers for lung, esophageal, prostate, breast colon and rectal, liver, brain, pancreatic, gynecologic, head and neck, and blood-borne cancers.  Allegheny General is the gateway to some of the most prominent research into breast and colorectal cancer treatment and prevention through studies conducted by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project.  This cancer research initiative, supported by the National Cancer Institute, is based on the Allegheny General campus and coordinates the efforts of more than 6,000 medical professionals in the study of breast and bowel cancer.   

    In keeping with its tradition of innovation and research, Allegheny General is an affiliate site for the Philadelphia-based Drexel University College of Medicine and is currently conducting studies in the neurosciences, human oncology, human genetics, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, orthopedics and trauma.