Patient Care UR Medicine Performs Record Number of Heart Transplants in 2023 By Leslie White Jan. 19, 2024 Strong Memorial Hospital provided a record 40 life-saving heart transplants last year. Those second chances, made possible by organ donors, are priceless for our patients and their families.
Patient Care Man with LVAD Heart Pump Travels Four Hours for Each Eastman Dental Visit By Karen Black Mar. 7, 2023 Throughout Eastman Institute, faculty and residents treat patients with a wide range of complex medical issues, like Loren Vinal, who has an LVAD heart pump. He travels four hours round trip to ...
Patient Care URMC Among Busiest Centers for Advanced Heart Failure Care in U.S. By Leslie White Apr. 6, 2022 URMC ranks in the top 3 centers for advanced heart failure in the US, including implantable pumps.
Patient Care Heartbeat of Community Stronger Thanks to Remote TeleVAD Program in Hornell By URMC Communications Jun. 28, 2021 Regular monitoring is needed to ensure LVAD devices are functioning appropriately. Kathy Bentley, along with many others in the southern region, are now utilizing the TeleVAD program to help get the ...
Patient Care Unconventional Union For Officers Provides Hope For New Beats By Leslie White Feb. 12, 2021 Buffalo Police Detective Jim Kaska and Police Capt. Melinda Jones exchanged vows in an intensive care unit at Strong Memorial Hospital, where Kaska is awaiting a new heart, and a second chance at ...
Patient Care New Heart surgery Technique Performed 1st in US at Strong Gets FDA OK By Leslie White Jul. 30, 2019 Pioneering efforts by UR Medicine cardiac surgery teams led to FDA approval of a new technique for implanting a life-saving heart pump. The procedure, performed first in the nation at Strong Memorial ...
Patient Care Syracuse-area Woman with Heart Failure Reaches Rare Milestone By Leslie White Mar. 20, 2019 A Central New York woman is 1 of just 100 people in the nation alive today thanks to a decade of support from a heart pump. And those 10 years were tremendously valuable to Rahel Elmer-Reger, who ...
Patient Care Strong Memorial Ranked Among Top Centers for Heart Pumps, Survival By Leslie White Feb. 20, 2019 Frank Rosinski’s heart stopped three times and doctors were able to revive him. Doctors immediately transferred the Greece man to Strong Memorial Hospital for heart failure care by Upstate New York’s ...
Patient Care Grand Island Man Has Plenty of Reasons to be Grateful By Leslie White Nov. 20, 2018 A year ago, Neil Wolfe’s heart was three times the size that it should be. He had no idea it was one of the reasons he needed to buy new shirts, twice. That didn’t bother him as much as a lingering ...
Patient Care Strong Memorial Cardiology Team Helps Expand Use of Next-Gen Heart Pumps By Leslie White Oct. 24, 2018 UR Medicine Heart and Vascular is celebrating its valuable contributions to securing approval of the latest high-tech pump for the growing population of people facing heart failure. Last week, the ...