On the evening of July 21, Rochester Police Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz was shot on Bauman Street and rushed to Strong. Despite heroic efforts by our faculty and staff to save his life, the wounds ...
As New York’s vaccine mandate takes effect Monday, 99% of professional medical staff and 91% of all staff are vaccinated at six UR Medicine hospitals, which will maintain critical care with some ...
Responding to the growing public health threat of the Delta variant, and the recent emergence of COVID-19 cases in the Rochester area, the University of Rochester is reinstating indoor face-masking ...
Starting Sept. 8, all employees of the University of Rochester, including 鶹Ƶand UR Medicine, must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular COVID testing and stricter safety protocols.
In moves intended to strengthen equity in the delivery of care, 鶹Ƶwill immediately discontinue special patient services and phase out its Executive Health Program by June 30, officials announced ...
Later this week 鶹Ƶplans to begin vaccinating patients in “Group 1B” and others who are eligible. Patients will be contacted directly when they can schedule an appointment at one of two new ...
The 鶹Ƶ today released its Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan, a five-year effort to strengthen diversity and inclusion at the Medical Center, address inequities in ...
In a letter to Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), top leaders of the 鶹Ƶ urged HHS to rescind a rule that ...
Through letters and rallies, URMC’s learners, faculty, staff, and community members have shared strong recommendations that have caused us to reexamine fairness and inclusivity within our own ...
Through letters and rallies, URMC’s learners have shared strong recommendations that have caused us to reexamine fairness and inclusivity within our own organization. The text below is an email ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 12, 2020 – Employers across the country can advance reopening efforts with technology developed by the University of Rochester to check employees for potential COVID-19 symptoms ...
The 鶹Ƶ supports the declaration that racism is a public health crisis and commends the Greater Rochester Black Agenda Group for putting our institution on the ...
None of us individually can solve our nation’s racial challenges or the COVID-19 pandemic. By working collectively, however, we believe the 鶹Ƶ can have a ...
Mina Millicent Chung, M.D., an ophthalmologist and retina specialist who helped blind children to see and furthered the study of retinal disease, including macular degeneration, died Feb. 13 after a ...
Patients with bone and joint conditions could receive treatment at one of the most comprehensive centers for orthopaedic surgery and outpatient care in the United States upon completion of a medical ...
Leaders of the 1199SEIU Healthcare Workers East, which represents nearly 1,500 employees at the 鶹Ƶ (URMC), will join the medical center’s CEO in urging state ...
Extending prior strategic partnerships, and following more than 18 months of development work, leaders of St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, N.Y., and the 鶹Ƶ (URMC) ...
Hundreds of thousands of area residents will soon have fast, secure online access to the office-visit notes written by their health-care providers, through a collaborative initiative between UR ...
Carrie Fuller Spencer has been named chief financial officer (CFO) of Strong Memorial (SMH) and Highland hospitals effective immediately. She has held the position of interim CFO at Strong since last ...
The 鶹Ƶ (URMC) has named Adam P. Anolik its chief financial officer (CFO). Anolik, a finance leader at the medical center for nearly two decades, has been serving ...