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The orthopaedics campus will build on analysis, a cardiovascular lab, an aquatic the department’s work on developing new
that success, and in the tradition of the center, and classrooms focused on wellness approaches to care and new cures.
department’s commitment to “Meliora,” it will and performance training. CHAMPP will “As we invest in new facilities, we are
set aggressive goals for the facility. be headquarters for UR Fitness Science, building spaces that promote multidisci-
“As we envision a new campus, we are a strategic approach to helping large plinary, multi-departmental collaboration
building not just more space, but a place that populations of patients reverse the negative between clinical staff, researchers, learners,
fully integrates clinical teams, researchers, trends of obesity, inactivity, and preventable administrative and IT staff, and patients
educators, residents, and fellows in one injury. Led by Sports Medicine Division themselves,” Taubman notes. “With this new
setting to foster greater collaboration Chief Mike Maloney, MD, CHAMPP will project, we envision a facility that provides
that will yield advances in clinical quality, be a multidisciplinary center for proactive patients battling mobility problems with
scientific exploration, and physician health care—combining Sports Medicine convenient access to all of the services and
training,” Rubery says. clinical teams, athletic performance training, technologies they may require throughout
physical therapy and rehabilitation, nutrition, their care. And while CMSR will retain its
A Look Ahead and behavioral health. facilities in the Medical Center, the new
The new campus will mean more clinical Phase II will expand the new site to facility will integrate research activity
space to address the projected increases in accommodate innovative clinical, research, on-site with clinical care delivery.”
patient volumes. An Orthopaedic enterprise and education programs, which will add As it looks forward to the next steps in
that grew from four clinic rooms in Strong another 250,000 square feet over the next 10 its growth and evolution, the Department
Memorial Hospital in 1974 to 133 today will years. This phase of the build will add space of Orthopaedics carries on a tradition of
need still more space to cover current and for residency and staff training, including innovation. And it understands its role in
future patient demands. While Orthopaedics an auditorium, an education center, a skills answering some of the most pressing health
will continue to have outpatient sites lab, and a mechanical testing space. CMSR problems our nation faces.
throughout the Rochester region, the will retain its lab space at the Medical Center “Some of the most groundbreaking
campus will centralize core services but will have additional space at the campus treatments for Orthopaedic conditions that
in one site. for clinical trials, bone density testing, and physicians around the world use today got
As Rubery explains, Phase I is projected motion analysis. their start here,” Rubery says. “As we move
to be complete in three years and will Phase II also will include administrative forward, we’ll be guided by the principles of
include 350,000 square feet of new space, space for physician offices, as well as biopsychosocial medicine that imbues our
primarily dedicated to clinical modules for accommodations for residents and fellows, thinking at URMC. And today’s innovators,
outpatient care, Orthopaedic urgent care, billing, schedulers, and conference space. like the pioneers that came before them,
and ambulatory surgery. The site will also Plans are subject to approval by the will redefine what orthopaedics means to
house the Center for Human Athleticism Board of Trustees in early 2019. Taubman an individual’s well-being, and what our
and Musculoskeletal Performance and says the campus will be a place where specialty can contribute to the nation’s health
Prevention (CHAMPP), with facilities and researchers, clinical care teams, and patients care delivery.”
equipment for video-enabled motion capture/ can share a productive setting to accelerate

Demand for UR Medicine
350,000
Orthopaedics services

300,000 continues to rise

dramatically, driving
250,000 the need for expanded

UR Medicine
Orthopaedics operating room,
200,000 Projected Visits
outpatient clinic, and

rehabilitation space to
150,000
meet expected needs.
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