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STRONG MEMORIAL UR MEDICINE
HOSPITAL HOME CARE
• Annual funds helped renovate operating rooms • Funds for programs like Meals On Wheels
and create more private in-patient rooms. This provided hundreds of thousands of nutritious,
helped Strong gain attention as a national leader in volunteer-delivered meals to homebound
patient safety, patient engagement, and clinical recipients throughout Monroe County.
connectedness to improve patient care.
• The hospice and palliative care teams provided the
• Philanthropy enabled URMC to acquire a Mobile highest quality of care for more than 2,000
Stroke Unit (MSU)— now serving all of Monroe patients and their families during the final stages
County, and the only unit of its kind in upstate of life. Bereavement counselors partnered with
New York—which brings the capabilities of an local agencies to welcome children to Camp
emergency room with stroke expertise directly to Heartstrings—a summer camp promoting
the patient. Since it began operation in October understanding, accepting, and healing for children
2018, the MSU has responded to 867 calls for adjusting to the loss of a loved one.
service for individuals experiencing stroke-like
symptoms. • UR Medicine Home Care monitored thousands
of patients’ blood pressure, temperature, weight,
• Support helped our advanced heart failure oxygen and glucose levels right from their homes
program to become one of the nation’s leading using telehealth technology, resulting in an
centers for research and development of estimated annual health care cost savings of
ventricular assist devices (VADs). Since the $1.5 million.
program’s inception in 2001, Strong has
performed more than 260 heart transplants and • UR Medicine Home Care provides supportive,
700+ VAD implants. preventative, post-acute, rehabilitation and
complex care for medically frail children who need
care at home. This ensures exceptional medical
care to help patients regain independence and
achieve a better quality of life at home with the
families who love them.
