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Educational Environments for Pediatric Training

Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong (GCHaS)

Golisano Children's Hospital at StrongGolisano Children's Hospital at Strong is located within the Strong Memorial Hospital, a general hospital of eight stories with 800 inpatient beds. Pediatric inpatient services are located on the 3rd and 4th floors. All ambulatory care for children is provided in the Ambulatory Care Facility. Research facilities are located within the children's hospital and the medical research buildings as part of the Strong Centers for Research and the Aab Institute for Biomedical Science. There is a 22-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)/Cardiac Care Unit (CCU)/Intermediate Care unit (IMCU), normal newborn nursery, and a 52-bed intensive care nursery.

Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong and Strong Memorial Hospital serve as a primary care and emergency medical facility for the community, particularly for those persons living on the south side of Rochester. Golisano Children's Hospital is a center for a population of 1.3 million who live in a radius of 150 miles. There are approximately 8,500 admissions to the pediatric services and 2,800 to the newborn services each year. The patient population is heterogeneous with regard to social background, place of residence (inner city, suburban, and rural), and medical needs (acute illness care, diagnostic evaluation, and management of chronic medical problems). All medical patients are admitted to the pediatric service and managed by the pediatric staff. The surgical patients are followed by the pediatric staff as well. The nursery houses normal newborns, while the regional intensive care nursery admits critically ill infants transported from the surrounding 11-county region as well as those delivered at SMH. Active neonatal and pediatric transport services are also available to the surrounding region.

Over 90,000 visits occur annually in the Ambulatory Care Facility, including general pediatric and subspecialty services. The Pediatric Practice at Strong consists of a multidisciplinary team composed of house officers, faculty, nurse practitioners, social workers, nurses, dietitians, and secretaries dedicated to care for the over 23,000 annual visits. Each house officer develops by selection and assignment a panel of patients who are seen during regularly scheduled office hours, 1 to 2 half days each week.

Pediatric house officers are also rotated through the Rochester Ronald McDonald House Children's Charities Pediatric Emergency Department. More than 20,000 pediatric visits are made to this facility annually.

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