Patient Care NY Funds Medical Training at Rochester Clinic By Leslie Orr Jun. 25, 2012 The University of Rochester Medical Center received a $344,000 state grant for a three-year project to expand and improve training and education of URMC medical students and residents who deliver ...
Research Listening in, Researchers Learn About End-of-Life Communication By Leslie Orr May. 31, 2012 What is the best way to talk to someone about prognosis and quality of life when serious illness strikes? It turns out that no one had studied that question through direct observation, until the ...
Patient Care Outpatient Clinics Adopt eRecord, Debut New ‘MyChart’ Feature By URMC Communications May. 14, 2012 Last week, 162 University of Rochester Medical Center-affiliated outpatient clinics officially plugged into “eRecord,” URMC’s new electronic medical record solution. This latest milestone marks a ...
Research Physician’s Mindfulness Skills Can Improve Care for Patient and Provider By URMC Communications Apr. 26, 2012 Training physicians in mindfulness meditation and communication skills can improve the quality of primary care for both practitioners and their patients, University of Rochester Medical Center ...
Patient Care URMC Primary Care Network Receives Top Medical Home Certification from NCQA By Karin Gaffney Christensen Feb. 20, 2012 All 22 offices in the primary care network have been nationally certified at the highest level to offer a new model of care that promotes partnership between patients and a personal team of health ...
Community Diabetes Prevention Program Expanded to Physician Practices By Karin Gaffney Christensen Dec. 28, 2011 The Greater Rochester Health Foundation has awarded funding to the Diabetes Prevention Program of the URMC Center for Community Health to expand a successful lifestyle intervention program to 11 ...
Patient Care When Doctor Becomes Patient, There’s Much to Learn By Leslie Orr Nov. 8, 2011 Colleen Fogarty, M.D., jokes that the process of being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 was a little too much like a trip to Jiffy Lube, in an essay in which she urges her colleagues to refocus ...
Community Thomas L. Campbell Honored as a Community Champion By Karin Gaffney Christensen Oct. 19, 2011 Thomas L. Campbell, M.D., will be recognized this afternoon as a Community Champion at the Anthony L. Jordan Foundation’s fourth annual Patients First Luncheon. The event will begin at noon at the ...
Research Vitamin D May Help Explain Racial Differences in Blood Pressure By Leslie Orr Apr. 25, 2011 High blood pressure, or hypertension, is more common and often more deadly in blacks than in whites, and a new University of Rochester study shows that low vitamin D levels among black people might ...
Education URMC Chair to Lead National Family Medicine Organization By Karin Gaffney Christensen Apr. 19, 2011 Thomas L. Campbell, M.D., has been named president-elect of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine.
