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UR MEDICINE WILMOT CANCER
HOME CARE INSTITUTE
$36,218 $1.1M
• Meals On Wheels provided over 280,000 • Interventional Clinical Trials at Wilmot continued
nutritious, volunteer delivered meals to to grow, particularly for prevention studies
homebound recipients throughout Monroe including screenings and smoking cessation tools.
County. • Philanthropic support has seeded several
• UR Medicine Home Care made approximately promising pilot grants that have potential to
200,000 home health visits in the last year for transform treatment options for cancer patients;
patients in the Rochester and Finger Lakes many of these grants are eligible to apply for
communities. These visits included nursing, additional funding through foundations and
physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech federal agencies, which further amplifies the
therapy, home health aides, and social work. In impact our donors have.
addition, the pediatric team made 6,800 home • Annual funds supported Wilmot’s recent
health visits. recruitment of new faculty with a bold vision for
• The hospice and palliative care teams provided the future, including Anna Weiss, MD, the new
the highest quality of care for more than 1,400 director of the Breast Cancer Service Line, Lauren
patients and their families during the final Ghazel, PhD, FNP-BC, an associate member of
stages of life. Bereavement counselors the Cancer Prevention and Control program, and
partnered with local agencies to welcome Marlies P. Rossmann, MD, PhD, an assistant
children to Camp Heartstrings—a summer camp professor in the Department of Biomedical
promoting understanding, accepting, and Genetics.
healing for children adjusting to the loss of a
loved one.
HEALTH SCIENCES DIVISION
$86,907
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