The Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner (ACOME)

ACOME conducts medicolegal death investigations, forensic analyses, and environmental sample analyses to assist the citizens of Allegheny County, law enforcement, judicial court systems and health and environmental agencies. Learn more about our history, organization and personnel.

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office is unique in that in addition to providing medicolegal death investigation services, the ACOME also provides state-of-the-art forensic and environmental laboratories and services to effectively assist law enforcement, the judicial court systems, and health and environmental agencies.