This includes patients with stable and unstable coronary syndromes, arrhythmias and all stages of congestive heart failure including heart transplantation. The Cardiology Service team admits only during the daytime and takes no overnight call. Oncology Service Allegheny General Hospital is a major research and clinical oncology center and thus provides care for a wide spectrum of oncologic diagnoses. Interns on the oncology team are exposed to patients hospitalized with hematologic malignancies or solid tumors or for hone marrow transplantation. Allegheny General Hospital has the largest Bone Marrow Transplantation program in Pittsburgh.
Interns take overnight call once every fifth night.
Interns are responsible for all orders and procedures on their patients in the ICU, while taking overnight call on average of every fourth night. The CCU is staffed by PGY 2 residents, who care for critically ill cardiac patients under the guidance of a cardiology fellow and attending. The hospital's Medical Ambulatory Program represents all subspecialty divisions and a variety of primary-care practice settings. The MAC staff includes 19 nurses, nurse practitioners and other support staff. More than 6,000 patients receive their care at this site, accounting for 13,000 annual visits.