Patient Care palliative care Gets National ‘Gold Seal’ Certification By Lori Barrette Oct. 8, 2019 The palliative care Program at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital has earned its fourth Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for palliative care Certification.
Patient Care Residency Helps New Nurses Prepare to Become Bedside Leaders By URMC Communications Oct. 7, 2019 From the medical side to emotional challenges, oncology nurses have so much to manage and learn. Newly trained nurses may feel the learning curve to be particularly steep. To help close the knowledge ...
Patient Care Living Well, with Cancer By URMC Communications Oct. 1, 2019 Integrative oncology addresses physical, mental and emotional aspects of living with cancer.
Patient Care Wilmot Receives $29M NCORP Grant: A Q&A with Gary Morrow By URMC Communications Oct. 1, 2019 Cancer Control research focuses on making life better for cancer patients. Now, as a patient himself, Researcher Gary Morrow, Ph.D., MS., says heâs been able to experience the science he helped to ...
Patient Care Born to Bridge Psychiatry and Medicine By Sally Parker Sep. 16, 2019 Department of Psychiatry Chair Ben Lee's instrinsic grasp of the biopsychosocial model is sharping his vision for behavioral medicine in Rochester and beyond.
Patient Care Investigators Looking to a Better Future for Patients with Bladder Cancer By URMC Communications Sep. 12, 2019 Wilmot researchers are revealing new insights into what drives the disease and possible new treatment pathways.
Patient Care Can Marijuana Help Cancer Patients? Perspectives from an Expert By URMC Communications Sep. 12, 2019 Many doctors have doubts about medical marijuana, even when their patients want to give it a try. One Palliative Care expert at URMC helps sort out fact from fiction on the use of cannabis among ...
Patient Care UR Medicine First in Northeast to Perform Robotic-Assisted Transplants for Kidney Recipients By Karin Gaffney Christensen Sep. 11, 2019 The first recipient to receive a living donor organ robotically using the da Vinci Robotic surgery System® at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital underwent surgery in May. A second case was ...
Research Strong Student-Adult Relationships Lower Suicide Attempts in High Schools By Scott Hesel Sep. 9, 2019 High schools where students are more connected to peers and adult staff, and share strong relationships with the same adults, have lower rates of suicide attempts, according to a new study published ...
Patient Care Telemedicine Can Reduce ED Visits for People with Dementia By Lori Barrette Aug. 22, 2019 Though older adults with dementia have high rates of emergency department use for acute illnesses, a trip to the ED can be disruptive for them as they are at greater risk for delirium and other ...
