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Our Facilities

Our program currently has 32 residents (eight at each level) who rotate between Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital.

Strong Memorial Hospital

Strong Memorial Hospital is an integral part of the University of Rochester Medical Center. It is a tertiary care center with 739 beds providing care for the Finger Lakes Region in Upstate New York.

A majority of faculty members are actively conducting sponsored research in most major diseases and organ systems. With more than $145 million in federal research funding, the UR School of Medicine research funding ranks in the top one-quarter of U.S. medical centers. About 243 of the full-time faculty serve as principal investigators on NIH-funded projects. In 2008, the University of Rochester Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ranked number two in the nation among ob/gyn departments in terms of NIH-funded research.

OB/GYN Resources at Strong

Much of the third floor of the hospital is dedicated to the care of women and infants. It includes:

  • Twenty-six labor private rooms in the Spiroff Birth Center. Eight rooms are used for labor and immediate postpartum care; eighteen are primarily for postpartum/gyn care.
  • A dedicated high-risk Labor and Delivery unit, which in addition to OB care can provide cardiac monitoring. unit. Seven private rooms which provide labor, delivery, and recovery care for high-risk pregnancies. There is separate dedicated unit of 25 beds for postpartum, antepartum, and inpatient gynecology care.
  • Two dedicated obstetrical ORs located within high-risk labor unit, with 24-hour dedicated anesthesia for both labor and operative delivery pain control options.
  • A level three NICU with a full-time on-call “delivery team” is also located on this floor.
  • An ambulatory surgery center for pediatrics, ophthalmology, and gynecology, located on the second floor of Strong, houses three dedicated GYN ORs within a seven suite OR.

Within Strong's Ambulatory Care Facility, the fifth floor is dedicated to women’s health care. Resident clinics as well as the Special Care Program and pediatric & adolescent gynecology facilities are centered here. The Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine has its own ultrasound center, in which 23,280 scans are performed annually. This floor also houses an antenatal testing unit, genetics program, and several obstetrical specialty clinics.

The urogynecology also have their outpatient clinics in the Ambulatory Care Facility.

Highland Hospital

Highland Hospital is a community-based hospital that is affiliated with the Strong Health system. It has active obstetrics, gynecology, and gynecologic oncology services. Approximately 2,100 gynecology surgeries are performed there each year.

OB/GYN Resources at Highland

  • A six-room labor-delivery-recovery suite and 30 postpartum rooms
  • Two dedicated obstetrical ORs within the obstetrical suite, as well as one GYN operating room
  • Seven main operating rooms, three of which are devoted to gynecology and gynecologic oncology

In addition, Highland's East 5 Wing is devoted to women’s health care, housing post-operative patients for both gynecology and gynecologic oncology, as well as breast surgery patients.

View the history of Highland Hospital http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hh/about-us/press/Highland-Gala-Raises-Funds-for-New-Programs.cfm