Patient Care New Heart is Ultimate Gift for Volunteer Firefighter By Leslie White Dec. 20, 2016 Barbara Fudge has spent her life helping others and asking nothing in return. For nearly 20 years she has served as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician in her small Chemung ...
Grant Domogala: A different kind of superhero By URochester Medicine Communications Dec. 2, 2016 Grant Domogala has overcome the odds time and time again since being diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia eight years ago. He has undergone three open-heart surgeries and ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Heart Transplant Team Celebrates 200 Hearts, 200 Second Chances By Leslie White Nov. 3, 2016 UR Medicine Heart and Vascular celebrated 200 second chances with an Oct. 22 reunion of heart transplant recipients, generous families of organ donors and staff from Strong Memorial Hospital and ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Cardiac Surgeons Perform 200th Heart Transplant By Leslie White Sep. 20, 2016 Cardiac surgeons at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital recently performed a 200th heart transplant surgery, providing a 48-year-old father a second chance on life. Reaching this milestone is a ...
Patient Care New Solid Organ Transplant Chief Joins UR Medicine’s Department of Surgery By Karin Gaffney Christensen Sep. 12, 2016 The University of Rochester Medical Center has appointed Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro as chief of UR Medicine’s Division of Solid Organ Transplantation in the Department of Surgery.
Patient Care Wilmot Cancer Institute celebrates 3,000th blood and marrow transplant By Lydia Fernandez Aug. 27, 2016 The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute recently performed its 3,000th transplant. The program, which opened in 1989, treats both adults and children ...
Patient Care Organ Donation Highlights Benefit for Harbor House Sept. 10 By Leslie White Aug. 11, 2016 The 10th annual “And the Beat Goes On…,” benefit dinner for Rochester’s Harbor House will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Doubletree by Hilton in Henrietta. Harbor House is a ...
Education The Next Milestone: Pediatric Operating Suite and PICU Will Complete Vision of a Standalone Children's Hospital By URochester Medicine Communications May. 4, 2016 Phase 2 of the Golisano Children’s Hospital will include a Pediatric Operating Suite and PICU, giving surgeons an optimal space to practice, and students an exceptional classroom for learning.
Patient Care Emotional Reunion Raises Awareness About Organ Donation By Karin Gaffney Christensen May. 1, 2016 Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network event April 29 at UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital left few dry eyes in the house.
Patient Care Gift of Life Unites 2 Families in Heart and Song By Karin Gaffney Christensen Apr. 28, 2016 The Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network event will bring a Horseheads, N.Y., family, which chose organ donation in a time of personal tragedy, together with the family of their infant son's ...
