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Collaboration yields clinical excellence: Brian Giordano, MD (Res ’09),
and P. Christopher Cook, MD, FRCS(c), FAOA, are co-directors of the Hip
Preservation Program, a specialty service that is a leader in the region.

“We can predict who will file a claim in the care resources. It’s an example of how taking Clinton Crossings was a breakthrough
next three years with 76 percent accuracy,” a biopsychosocial view of a health problem idea, for its time: a convenient, easily
Vasalos says, “and if you can predict it, you can change an individual’s life, and an accessible space with complementary
can help prevent it.” entire society’s.” clinical services—diagnostic imaging,
“Workplace injury represents a significant physical and occupational therapy,
portion of the patients we see in our clinics. Next Steps: Plans For prosthetics and bracing—all under one
It’s also one of the highest operating costs An Orthopaedics Campus roof to better serve patients. When it opened
that businesses have,” says Nicandri. “We’ve After many years of planning, Orthopaedics in 2000, it was state of the art. Since then, it
identified risk factors for these injuries— is poised to announce plans for an has succeeded beyond all expectations and
physical fitness, weight, and biopsychosocial orthopaedics campus that ultimately will the department’s growth is a direct result
factors like social networks and depression. bring together clinical care, research, of this concept’s success.
Preventing injuries by helping workers education, and community wellness in one “Orthopaedics’ role in URMC’s health
achieve healthier lifestyles gives them higher location. To see why, look no further than care delivery has steadily grown over the
quality of life and saves employers needless Clinton Crossings—which is consistently past several decades and it will play an
expenses so they can invest elsewhere in at top capacity and won’t accommodate increasingly important part in our plans to be
their business. This approach also reduces the larger patient volumes the department a regional provider of advanced health care
unnecessary use of the nation’s finite health expects in five years’ time. services in the years ahead,” says Taubman.

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