Email this pageBenefits of an Academic Medical Center
As Upstate New York's premier academic medical center (AMC), Strong brings together the best and the brightest minds to provide high-quality, evidence-based medicine, develop breakthroughs in diagnosis, prevention, and cures, and pass along their knowledge and experience to new generations of healthcare professionals.
Providing patients with a unique combination of advantages that can't be matched by typical community hospitals, AMCs:
- Attract high-caliber physicians, nurses, researchers, and other health professionals who are motivated by the opportunity to learn, teach, and contribute to the advancement of medical knowledge. Many of our practitioners have joint teaching appointments at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School of Nursing.
- Draw the nation's top specialists. Consequently, primary care physicians send their sickest patients to AMCs so they can benefit from the depth of expertise and have access to the latest and best treatment options.
- Engage teams of physicians, researchers, nurses, and other professionals in a multidisciplinary approach to treating the most complex diseases, illnesses, and injuries — a model that stimulates discoveries, knowledge sharing, and better patient outcomes.
- Offer clinical trials, breakthrough therapies, technology, and other advances in medicine that tend to be available first at AMCs.
- Receive the most transfers from community hospitals for patients who need high-risk procedures, sophisticated testing, complex treatment therapies, or advanced devices.
- Treat a higher volume of patients which, for certain procedures, tends to result in better outcomes because the hospital team and physicians have more experience.
- Manage your care safely and effectively using evidence-based standards of care that research shows lead to more favorable outcomes.
- Put intensive care units (ICUs) under the direction of intensivists, doctors who are specially trained and certified to care for critically ill patients. Research shows that ICU teams led by intensivists greatly increase patient survival rates. Strong Health has intensivist-led teams in both our adult and pediatric ICUs 24/7.
- Coordinate inpatient care using hospitalists, medical doctors whose specialized training and certification makes them experts in caring for special needs hospitalized patients and their families.
- Utilize the latest and most advanced medical technologies for patient diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment.
- Conduct basic scientific and clinical research. This enables the fastest possible translation of scientific findings from bench to bedside, making cutting-edge clinical care available to patients.
Did You Know…
- The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry has received an unprecedented six-year accreditation for its residency programs from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
- URMC is rated as one of the top academic centers for primary care medical education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
- Solucient, a company that collects comprehensive data on hospitals and health systems in the United States, listed Strong Memorial Hospital as one of the top Performance Improvement Leaders among teaching hospitals in the United States.