Patient Care Finger Lakes Region Receives $565 Million to Transform Medicaid Healthcare Delivery By URMC Communications May. 14, 2015 New York State Department of Health announced that the Finger Lakes Performing Provider System (FLPPS) is eligible to earn up to $565,448,177 over five years to transform the way health care is ...
Patient Care Transgender Clinic Serves Gender Expansive Youths and Young Adults By URMC Communications May. 13, 2015 In the hopes of supporting transgender youth and young adults, Gender Health Services at UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital offers a full spectrum of support.
New gardens bring healing By URMC Communications May. 13, 2015 Two new spaces that will offer healing outside of the children's hospital are the building's beautiful healing gardens. Healing gardens are rooted in Golisano Children's Hospital's commitment to ...
Research URMC Joins Nationwide Concussion Consortium By URMC Communications May. 12, 2015 Jeffrey Bazarian, M.D., professor of Emergency Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Neurology and Neurosurgery, has joined the largest sports concussion research project ever, a $30 million ...
Research URMC Mourns Loss of Former Radiology Chair Robert O’Mara By Leslie White May. 12, 2015 Robert E. O’Mara, M.D., former chair of Radiology, as it was known then, and chief of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, died April 26, at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He ...
Community Free Skin Cancer Screening Offered May 30 By Lori Barrette May. 12, 2015 UR Medicine’s Department of Dermatology is joining forces with the American Academy of Dermatology and the Rochester Dermatologic Society to provide free skin cancer screenings 9 a.m. to noon ...
Patient Care UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals Earn High Marks – Four Stars – in New National Ratings By Emily Boynton May. 11, 2015 UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital received high marks in a new ratings system rolled out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that aims to help consumers choose ...
Patient Care Stay in the Game: Avoiding Injuries in Youth Sports By Lori Barrette May. 11, 2015 They may think they’re indestructible, but thousands of young athletes suffer injuries playing sports every year. With summer sports season on the horizon, kids will be flocking to the fields. UR ...
Research Understanding the ‘Enemy Within’ that Causes Brain Damage after Cardiac Arrest By Mark Michaud May. 6, 2015 A new $1.7 million grant will bring together a team of researchers to study – and ultimately thwart – the chain reaction that occurs in the body after cardiac arrest that can ultimately lead to brain ...
Areas of respite By URMC Communications May. 6, 2015 Every day, the new Golisano Children's Hospital changes dramatically, especially when it comes to our new gathering and respite spaces. Art is being installed in the dramatic atrium leading up from ...
