Allegheny General is recognized as one of the nation's leading hospitals, with particular excellence in cancer care, cardiac care, orthopaedics, neurosciences and trauma.

AGH has been listed among America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report magazine for five years running . AGH is also listed with HCIA-Sachs, a leading healthcare industry research organization, and 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, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, opthalmology, orthopaedic 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 it's LifeFlight air-medical service, the first to fly in the Northeastern United States.

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. AGH is also host to the headquarters of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, the nation's largest breast cancer study, which is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.