{"id":307846,"date":"2026-10-16T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307846\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:52:20","slug":"university-of-pittsburgh-medical-center-helps-first-responders-with-new-simulation-training-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307846\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Pittsburgh Medical Center helps first responders with new simulation training center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https3A2F2Fd1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net2F10-14-20262Ft_a5165dd970174577aac9e75c1f243c2e_name_upmcne.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1400219\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIDEO: UPMC has started using a simulation training center designed to prepare first responders for real-world emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Simulation Training Center at UPMC\u2019s Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania features simulated environments including an intensive care unit, an ambulance and a helicopter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It creates highly realistic scenarios that allow emergency responders to practice critical skills needed in actual field operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat this does is provides them an experience,\u201d Jim Houser said, president of the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania. \u201cIt provides them an atmosphere, an environment, if you will, to apply all the things that they come here with. And then we continue to train them in and for, in an environment that they\u2019re going to see patients and care for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WPXI-TV NBC 11 Pittsburgh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: UPMC has started using a simulation training center designed to prepare first responders for real-world emergencies. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8338,28,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-307846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}