A New Strong
Building a 21st-century hospital to better serve you.
A New Strong Memorial Hospital
Building a 21st-century hospital to better serve you.
“You and your family deserve the best quality care available in the country. This is why Strong Memorial Hospital is committed to a five-year modernization and expansion project, allowing us to diagnose and treat patients more quickly, in private, more comfortable spaces that better serve the health needs of our community.”
– Kathy Parrinello, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Strong Memorial Hospital
The care you need, right when you need it.
Our new Emergency Department will have the space necessary to heal more patients and reduce our region’s overflow challenges.
Heal in your own room, with space for your family to be there.
Renovations will add more than 100 individual inpatient rooms, where your recovery is our number one priority.
Collaborative care advances your recovery time.
With over 200 examination, treatment, and patient observation stations—and nearly triple the space—your healthcare team can develop innovative approaches to your healing.
Advances Happen Here
We’re focused on making the lives of our patients, teams, and communities better by delivering hope, pursuing cures, and transforming medicine. From faster, more accurate diagnostics, to less-invasive surgeries. From new ways to fight cancer, to helping people move and live pain-free. From breaking down the barriers to equitable care, to making a child’s stay less scary. We know that our community deserves the best medical care.
Providing 21st-century healthcare care requires 21st-century solutions, resources, and facilities. Since Strong Memorial Hospital’s last major modernization, the hospital has seen an exponential increase in demand for its services. With this project, the Emergency Department will nearly quadruple in size and will include space for psychiatric emergency care. Our expansion will add a cardiovascular pavilion, with floors for diagnostic and treatment services, cardiac care, and our inpatient hospital—featuring individual rooms that meet the latest requirements in patient safety, infection control, and with areas to give families space to feel a part of the health care team. Join us in making a difference now, and for years to come, in the health and well-being of people of all ages in our community.
Lauren Opladen: From helpless to hopeful
Lauren Opladen was 11 when her older brother died by suicide. Four years later, her father died from ALS. Both events were major triggers for Lauren’s depression at 17. She was treated by mental health experts at Golisano Children’s Hospital and convinced herself and others she was ready to go home, but she wasn’t. She attempted suicide and was readmitted, which became a turning point for her.
New spaces
The Strong Expansion Project includes an expanded Emergency Department (ED) with space for pediatric and adult mental health services. Additionally, added floors, including three dedicated to cardiovascular care, will create more space for inpatient services with nearly all individual rooms to give you the privacy and space to heal.
Regional economic engine
The people who work at the University of Rochester and Strong Memorial Hospital are important not only to the health and wellness of our community, and also to the regional economy. Education and healthcare sectors are attributable to 15% of all jobs and 12% of all earnings—and are particularly important in upstate New York.
News
Find out what makes Strong Memorial Hospital a level 1 trauma center ›
UR Medicine Performs Record Number of Heart Transplants in 2023 ›
Groundbreaking Ceremony Celebrates Strong Memorial Hospital Expansion Project ›
Strong Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department demolition is surprisingly sustainable ›
Strong Expansion Project Reaches Another Approval Milestone ›
Strong Will Nearly Triple Size of ED, Offer 100+ New Private Inpatient Rooms ›
How you can help
You can make a difference now, and for years to come, in the health and well-being of people of all ages across our region by supporting Strong Memorial Hospital. For more information, please contact Jennifer Koehnlein at (585) 831-9987 or jennifer.koehnlein@rochester.edu.
How you can help
You can make a difference now, and for years to come, in the health and well-being of people of all ages across our region by supporting Strong Memorial Hospital. For more information, please contact Jennifer Koehnlein at (585) 831-9987 or jennifer.koehnlein@rochester.edu.