Research URMC Launches Effort to Improve Palliative Care in Nursing Homes By Mark Michaud Jan. 14, 2013 A project involving nursing homes from across upstate New York will seek to establish new standards and strengthen the quality of end-of-life care. The $1.9 million project is one of the first awards ...
Research Listening in, Researchers Learn About End-of-Life Communication By Leslie Orr May. 31, 2012 What is the best way to talk to someone about prognosis and quality of life when serious illness strikes? It turns out that no one had studied that question through direct observation, until the ...
Research Eight Members of URMC Family Lauded for Achievements By Teri D'Agostino Mar. 28, 2012 Eight out of 20 Health Care Achievement Awards presented today by the Rochester Business Journal were captured by physicians, a dentist, nurse, staff and a volunteer within the URMC health care ...
Patient Care Rochester Physician Leads National Palliative Care Organization By URMC Communications Mar. 21, 2012 Timothy E. Quill, M.D., director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has assumed the presidency of the American Academy of Hospice ...
Patient Care Palliative Care Program Achieves Top National Certification By URMC Communications Nov. 27, 2011 In the latest development in its decades-long leadership in the area of palliative care, the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Palliative Care Program is one of the first nationwide to earn ...
Patient Care Expert on Palliative Care to Be Honored By URMC Communications Nov. 10, 2009 A Rochester physician is being honored by the leading national organization in palliative care and has been elected to a leadership post within the organization. Timothy E. Quill, M.D., director of ...
Massage Therapy Talk April 28 at Wilmot Cancer Center By Leslie White Apr. 13, 2009 People with cancer can learn about the use of massage therapy to relieve tension and pain during a talk at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of ...
Patient Care Region’s Only Inpatient Palliative Care Unit to Open at Strong By Lori Barrette Mar. 23, 2009 The University of Rochester Medical Center will celebrate the opening of the region’s only hospital-based palliative care unit, at Strong Memorial Hospital, with a ribbon cutting and dedication ...
Palliative Care Now a Division of Department of Medicine By URMC Communications Mar. 17, 2009 Palliative Care, recently recognized as a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties, has become a division of the Department of Medicine.
