Tag: patient

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that on any given day, about 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. URMC infectious ...

A new study found that the presence of complications following surgery is a strong indicator of which patients are likely to be readmitted to the hospital in the 30 days following their procedure.

Jim Summers wishes he was home to hang decorations with his family this year. Instead the Hamburg resident will celebrate the holidays at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he awaits a ...

Everything is coming up roses for Richard Perez, a 10-year liver recipient, who will represent the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network and Solid Organ ...

Jamie Arliss didn’t get to watch University of Rochester Medical Center doctors save her life, so she’ll tune into “Grey’s Anatomy” to see how it was done -- Hollywood-style. The Thursday, Oct. 24, ...

Dan Krenzer began learning Braille in third grade because eye disease degraded his vision. Legally blind, he could only see shapes and colors.

Tim Synor considers himself a lucky man. He is recovering from a heart transplant at the University of Rochester Medical Center and recently returned home to his wife, toddler son and infant daughter ...

Retired Ithaca schoolteacher Fred Knewstub is still working to educate people; this time about the importance of organ donation. It’s an issue close to his heart, or more accurately, involves his ...

Anna Biss was born with a serious heart condition that, over the first few years of her life, had to be corrected by three complex surgeries. Throughout her time at Golisano Children's Hospital at ...

Two people are recovering after a pair of heart transplants performed recently at the University of Rochester Medical Center. This was the first time the Program in Heart Failure and Transplantation ...