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Right-sized for a growing
mission: As an aging U.S. he UR Medicine greatly expand our portfolio of
population drives demand T Orthopaedics & Physical services to include new programs
for musculoskeletal care, Performance Center project that support wellness and injury
UR Medicine responds with is under way, and in two years’ prevention. These innovative
a comprehensive center to time when it is completed, will approaches have been developed
meet patients’ needs now redefine musculoskeletal care for in Rochester, and build on our
and in the years ahead. Western New York. department’s legacy of exploring
new approaches to advance
The largest offsite capital project musculoskeletal care.”
in University of Rochester history
will move clinical operations
from its primary outpatient site,
Clinton Crossings in suburban “ The new site supports
Brighton, to a new campus our goal to see more
adjacent to The Marketplace Mall. patients, more quickly, and
At approximately 330,000 square gives us room to greatly
feet, the new campus will be expand our portfolio of
nearly three times the size of services to include new
Clinton Crossing’s Building programs that support
D and include a perioperative wellness and injury
center designed for outpatient prevention. ”
surgery and minimally invasive
procedures. There will be up to
140 new clinic exam rooms – a When Building D opened nearly
significant increase over the 86 two decades ago, its innovative
currently available at Building design combined a traditional
D, plus eight operating rooms in clinic with a rich mix of patient
the first phase of construction by resources including diagnostic
2022 and another six as demand imaging, an orthotic shop, and
requires.
physical, occupational and hand
The department is expanding therapy. That innovative approach
its footprint in a very big way delivered greater convenience to
because it’s responding to a rapid patients, and improved efficiency
rise in patient demand. for orthopaedic providers.
“We have seen a 25 percent The new campus extends the
increase in Orthopaedics surgery concept by adding onsite surgery
cases over the past seven years, designed for orthopaedics.
and a 60 percent increase in Another highly valuable
ambulatory visits in the same addition: the Center for Human
timeframe,” said Paul T. Rubery, Athleticism and Musculoskeletal
M.D., Chair and Marjorie Strong Performance and Prevention,
Wehle Professor of Orthopaedics. known as CHAMPP, will provide
innovative approaches to physical
“The new site supports our performance training and injury
goal to see more patients, more prevention.
quickly, and gives us room to
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