Patient Care URMC’s Novel Care for Rare Heart Condition Featured on Discovery Health Channel By Leslie White Jun. 19, 2012 The collaborative innovation of two University of Rochester Medical Center specialists who injected “medical superglue” into a rare mass in a young woman’s heart will be featured on the Discovery Fit ...
Patient Care Heart Transplant Survivor Highlights Harbor House Benefit Dinner June 9 By Leslie White May. 15, 2012 Ginger Zimmerman will share her inspiring story of life after a heart transplant at the Harbor House benefit dinner, “And the Beat Goes On…,” Saturday, June 9, at the Doubletree Hotel in Henrietta. ...
Patient Care Utica-area Man Receives Heart Transplant at University of Rochester Medical Center By Leslie White May. 9, 2012 Mike Hayshem gently places his hand over his heart and soon begins to smile. “I can feel it beating,” he says of the transplanted organ while recovering at the University of Rochester Medical ...
Patient Care URMC Surgeons Implant 1st Total Artificial Heart in Upstate New York By Leslie White Apr. 11, 2012 The University of Rochester Medical Center cardiac transplant team has replaced a 49-year-old man’s heart with a total artificial heart, introducing a new, life-sustaining treatment option for the ...
Education Donate Life Month Honors Organ and Tissue Donors, Recipients By Karin Gaffney Christensen Mar. 31, 2012 Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network, along with hospitals and transplant centers in the Finger Lakes, Central and Northern New York regions, are honoring and celebrating the hundreds of thousands of ...
Community Rochester River Run/Walk 5K set for April 22 By URMC Communications Mar. 11, 2012 Individuals and teams are invited to participate in the 11th annual fundraiser, Friends of Strong Rochester River Run/Walk 5K, Sunday, April 22, at the Roundhouse Shelter at Genesee Valley Park. The ...
Patient Care Syracuse Woman Gets the Ultimate Christmas Gift – A New Heart By Leslie White Dec. 21, 2011 A Syracuse woman is recovering this holiday season from a well-timed heart transplant at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Patient Care Syracuse Woman Raises Awareness of Joining Organ Donor Registry By Leslie White Dec. 5, 2011 Carol Kankoski misses the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping, the music and the decorations. Tethered to monitors and machines during this season of giving, the Syracuse-area woman awaits the ...
Patient Care URMC Heart Failure Program Earns Prestigious Certification By Leslie White Nov. 28, 2011 The Program in Heart Failure and Transplantation at the University of Rochester Medical Center has received prestigious advanced certification in heart failure from the Joint Commission, the nation’s ...
Patient Care Pennsylvania Man Thankful for Artificial Heart Pump By Leslie White Nov. 21, 2011 When the Bell family gathers Thursday to give thanks, they will add the doctors and nurses at the University of Rochester Medical Center to the list of blessings received this year. For the first ...
