page_title: Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania
section_title: STAT MedEvac
hierarchical_section_title: Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania / STAT MedEvac
caption_attribution_description: A Service of the Center for Emergency Medicine
context_page_description: The Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania is a multi-hospital consortium based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is claimed to be one of the world's premiere
  centers of Emergency Medicine and EMS development. It currently ranks sixth for residencies in emergency medicine by reputation.
  Currently, the Center's member hospitals include the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian and Shadyside hospitals, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and UPMC Mercy. The "Center" as it is known, has several distinct offices:
context_section_description: STAT MedEvac is among the largest aeromedical agencies in the United States, with 17 helicopters bases in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington D.C., and Maryland - serving those states, the southern tier of New York State and West Virginia. Its main dispatch center is in Pittsburgh at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. As of an early 2018 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health EMS Protocol expansion allowing for critical care ground units to be licensed, STAT MedEvac now operates 4 Critical Care ground ambulances, and a new CEM STAT MedEvac and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Neonatal Critical Care ground ambulance and neonate critical care program. STAT MedEvac website
caption: The Pilot's side fuselage of a STAT MedEvac helicopter.
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