Patient Care Golisano Behavioral Health and Wellness Building Opens with Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony By Scott Hesel Jun. 18, 2020 The Golisano Behavioral Health and Wellness Building opened on June 18 with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Community University Makes Self-Screening Technology for COVID Symptoms Available to Employers By Chip Partner Jun. 12, 2020 ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 12, 2020 – Employers across the country can advance reopening efforts with technology developed by the University of Rochester to check employees for potential COVID-19 symptoms ...
Community URMC Calls Out Health Disparities, Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis By Chip Partner Jun. 10, 2020 The University of Rochester Medical Center supports the declaration that racism is a public health crisis and commends the Greater Rochester Black Agenda Group for putting our institution on the ...
Research URMC Launches Clinical Trials to Test Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 Patients By URMC Communications Jun. 2, 2020 A pair of national clinical trials testing whether hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an FDA-approved anti-malarial drug, can keep COVID-19 patients alive and out of the hospital were halted on June 19, 2020. ...
Patient Care UR Medicine to Begin COVID-19 Antibody Testing Monday, June 1 By Chip Partner May. 29, 2020 UR Medicine Labs will begin testing blood samples for antibodies to novel coronavirus on June 1.
Patient Care Coronavirus (COVID-19): Wilmot Offers Telemedicine Visits for Some Patients By URMC Communications May. 22, 2020 Wilmot Cancer Institute is offering some telemedicine appointments to help protect our patients, staff and community during the coronavirus pandemic. Here, we answer common questions Wilmot patients ...
Patient Care A Mother-Daughter Gift: Nursing Creates Special Bond By Ruth Harper-Rhode May. 10, 2020 Colleen Bayer was born while her mother, Kathryn Lechner, completed nursing school. Perhaps it’s serendipitous that years later, as Bayer decided her own path, she turned to nursing.
Patient Care Cancer, COVID and a Loss of Control: Advice for Coping By URMC Communications May. 8, 2020 You have cancer. For many, hearing those words represents feeling a total loss of control.The COVID-19 pandemic is giving all of us a glimpse of what a cancer diagnosis can feel like when the disease ...
Research URMC, RRH Collaborating to Test Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine By Mark Michaud May. 5, 2020 The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Rochester Regional Health (RRH) are investigating a new potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. “COVID-19 is a highly ...
Patient Care Intubation Box Provides Extra Protection for Caregivers Fighting the Pandemic By Bob Marcotte May. 1, 2020 Timothy O’Connor and Amy Niertit (Emergency Medicine) demonstrates use of an intubation box created by engineers at the University of Rochester as a safeguard for treating COVID-19 patients. ...