Email this page- Choosing Us
- Our Commitment to Quality
- Quality Measures
- Heart Attack
- Overview
- Aspirin on admission
- Beta blocker on admission
- Aspirin at discharge
- Beta blocker at discharge
- ACEI or ARB at discharge for patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction
- Smoking cessation
- Availability of PTCA
- Inpatient mortality for heart attacks
- Length of stay for heart attack patients
- Lipid-lowering therapy at discharge
- Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol assessment
- Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA)
- Overview
- Number of PTCA procedures performed annually
- Number of interventional cardiologists exceeding guidelines for individual physician volume for PTCA
- Board certification of interventional cardiologists
- Average length of stay for PTCA
- Data bank reporting of PTCA
- Inpatient mortality rate for PTCA
- Advanced techniques: Use of drug-eluting stents
- Coronary Bypass Surgery (CABG)
- Overview
- Annual surgical volume for CABG procedures
- Board certification of cardiothoracic surgeons
- Number and type of advanced surgical techniques/interventions for cardiac revascularization
- Percentage of CABG procedures performed using internal mammary artery grafts
- Percentage of CABG patients receiving prophylactic antibiotics within one hour prior to surgical incision
- Percentage of CABG patients with aspirin prescribed at discharge
- Percentage of CABG patients with statin prescribed at discharge
- Inpatient mortality rate for CABG
- Heart Failure
- Pneumonia
- Robotic Prostatectomy
- Stroke
- Overview
- Around-the-clock brain imaging
- Around-the-clock radiologist available to interpret brain imaging studies
- Stroke disease management program: Availability and type
- Use of tPA for stroke
- Board certification of neurologists
- Patient and community education
- Inpatient mortality for stroke patients
- Average length of stay for stroke patients
- Comprehensive stroke center
- Stroke rehabilitation program
- Aspirin administration within 48 hours from onset of stroke
- Antithrombotic medication prescribed at discharge for stroke patients
- Vascular neurologist availability
- Heart Attack
- Glossary of Terms
Why Patients Choose URMC
We are committed to quality and safety in caring for you and your loved ones. Every day, our healthcare professionals strive to provide the best, and then to reach beyond the best for ways to make it even better.
Our goal is to assure you that, when you choose the University of Rochester Medical Center, you place your trust and your health in the most skilled, qualified, and caring hands.
Strong Memorial Hospital: The Consumers' Choice
Measuring quality is a challenge. Opinions and experiences influence our impressions, whether we’re judging a hospital, a restaurant, or a product. What other people think and say makes a difference too.
Today, many sources of information aim to measure quality in healthcare. Hospital award programs and “report cards” point to things like success rates, death rates (mortality), number of days in the hospital, and how many surgeries a doctor has done. These efforts intend to help you learn more so you can make the best decisions about your care.
We’re proud to earn this type of recognition. Strong Memorial Hospital has been awarded the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award each of the 12 years it has been given. We also have medical specialties that are consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
Healthcare is complex and that makes it difficult to come up with one easy-to-read resource for rating it. While there is no one rating system to sum up healthcare quality, there is a lot of information that provides cues to help you learn about it. Things like experience, credentials, technology, volumes, outcomes, and patient and employee satisfaction can help to paint a picture of healthcare quality. Working toward that, we invite you to get to know the University of Rochester Medical Center better so you can choose your healthcare providers with confidence.
The Area’s Only Academic Medical Center
URMC is Upstate New York’s premier academic medical center. With the power of nationally recognized experts who teach, conduct research, and care for patients, URMC is on the leading edge of prevention, diagnosis, treatments, and cures.
Academic medical centers offer patients distinct advantages unmatched by community hospitals.