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Additionally, the campus will UR Medicine Orthopaedics has
have a motion capture lab, where become a regional destination for
Orthopaedics providers will go far specialized care, attracting patients
beyond traditional gait analysis by from throughout Western New York,
using advanced movement capture Pennsylvania and New England.
technology to study whole-body
mechanics and apply what they learn “With this project we are creating a
in research and clinical care. center that will be the largest and
most comprehensive in the Northeast,”
The department will retain its “hub Rubery said. “It builds on URMC’s goals
and spoke” approach to regional to be the region’s provider of choice
service—one large outpatient facility and then some. The center will also
near Rochester for specialized care, support our department’s efforts to
and an array of outpatient offices to continue recruiting top-caliber faculty,
provide convenient, close-to-home residents, fellows and researchers to the
access to our patients throughout department.”
the region.
The 140,000 square foot surgery and
“We placed these satellite outpatient procedure center is slated to open in
offices in areas where we have large late 2022, along with physical therapy
numbers of patients and where facilities and CHAMPP. These facilities
we wanted presence and visibility will be built within the existing mall
to ensure patients easy access to structure; construction on the new-build
care,” Rubery said. “Our faculty patient tower begins in mid-2021 and
will continue to spend part of their will complete the project when it opens
clinical time seeing patients at these in late 2023.
locations.”
Specialized surgical
facilities: Dedicated to
orthopaedic surgeries and
procedures, the ambulatory
surgery center will include
eight operating rooms upon
opening, and short-stay
recovery rooms.
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