Strong Mem Hosp Rochester Univ

Description

About the University of Rochester Medical Center
One of the nations top academic medical centers the University of Rochester Medical Center forms the centerpiece of the Universitys health research teaching patient care and community outreach missions With more than 145 million in federal research funding UR School of Medicine research funding ranks in the top onequarter of US medical centers while the School of Nursing ranks 12th highest in funding The Universitys health care delivery network is anchored by Strong Memorial Hospitala 739bed Universityowned teaching hospitalwhich boasts programs that consistently rank among quotAmericas Best Hospitalsquot according to US News amp World Report Our patients benefit from the Medical Centers robust teaching and biomedical research programs

Our mission is to use education science and technology to improve healthtransforming the patient experience with fresh ideas and approaches steeped in disciplined science and delivered by health care professionals who innovate take intelligent risks and care about the lives they touch

History

History of the University of Rochester Medical Center
In 1910 Abraham Flexner under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancment of Teaching published a report on medical schools that led to a revolution in how medicine was taught across the country

By 1920 Flexner approached Dr Benjamin Rush Rhees then president of the University of Rochester with the idea of establishing a medical school at the university that would utilize his revolutionary ideals in medical education Flexner and Rhees then approached George Eastman founder of Eastman Kodak to help back the idea financially Additional monies came from the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and the daughters of the late Henry Alvah Strong former business partner to George Eastman to build a university medical school and hospital on land located on the southern boundaries of the City of Rochester near the banks of the Genesee River

The URMC was founded in 1921 and George Hoyt Whipple was recruited from the University of California at San Francisco to become the first dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry Whipple helped shaped the school from its inception hiring faculty and staff and supervising the design and construction of buildings The medical school opened in 1925 and Strong Memorial Hospital opened its doors as a 250bed community facility The University of Rochester School of Medicine amp Dentistry graduated its first class in 1929

This room served as the Strong Memorial Hospital Lobby from 1926 until the opening of the new hospital in 1975 The lobby fell into disuse until it was incorporated into the Edward G Miner Library as its reading room during an extensive renovation in 1987

This plaque was dedicated to Henry Alvah and Helen Griffin Strong and is located in the former Strong Memorial Hospital lobby It reads quotMay the kindliness and human symphathy which characterized their lives continue forever through the ministry of this hospitalquot