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The idea of transporting a patient via helicopter wasn’t considered here until 1978 when an emergency department nurse at Allegheny General Hospital named Millie Fincke returned from a medical conference in Colorado and asked her bosses to create an air medical transport unit in Pittsburgh.
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Beginning next year, paramedics and emergency medical technicians for the City of Pittsburgh will work 12-hour shifts, instead of the current eight-hour…
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The City of Pittsburgh will hire EMTs for the first time since 2004 and raise the starting pay for paramedics. The city and paramedics union announced…
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Paramedics and emergency medical technicians want Pittsburghers to know they do a lot more than ride around in an ambulance. To show off what they do,…
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Research by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has shown Emergency Medical Service personnel who work 12- to 24-hour shifts are more than…
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George McCrary knows the Hill District well. As he drives the windy streets, he points out the places he remembers from his days working as one of the…
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Mark Bocian has been Pittsburgh’s Acting Chief of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services for more than two years now, but City Council indicated in…