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Kaleida Health combines the facilities,
services, resources, and talented physicians and staff who have made The Women's and
Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo General Health System, DeGraff Memorial
Hospital, and Millard Fillmore Health System so successful on their own for more
than 450 years.
The
Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Healthcare Network is one of the area's
leading health care providers. The ECMC Healthcare Network encompasses
off-campus, community based health centers, an advanced academic medical center
with 550 inpatient beds and 156 skilled nursing home beds, and the Erie County
Home, a 638-bed skilled nursing facility. The medical center serves as the
regional center for trauma, burn, and rehabilitation, and is a major teaching
facility for the State University of New York at Buffalo. Most ECMC Healthcare
Network physicians, dentists, and pharmacists are dedicated faculty members of
the University. The mission of the ECMC Healthcare Network is to provide
exceptional medical care to all Western New York residents regardless of ability
to pay, and to continue in a leadership role in education and research.
The Buffalo VAMC opened in 1950 and provides comprehensive primary, secondary and tertiary inpatient care.
Primary Care
Veterans can receive primary care, wellness and preventive outpatient care at both the Buffalo and Batavia facilities as well as in the seven community-based outpatient clinics.
Specialized Services
Buffalo VAMC provides medical, surgical, mental health and longterm care services through a full range of inpatient and outpatient programs.
Cardiac & Cancer Center
It is the main referral center for cardiac surgery, cardiology and comprehensive cancer care for central and western New York and Northern Pennsylvania.
Research
VAWNYHS researchers have earned worldwide acclaim in developing the cardiac pacemaker. Recent breakthroughs in the study of tinnitus and progress toward a vaccine for childhood ear infections promise benefits to all mankind.
Since
its founding in 1892, the Women's and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo has been devoted to
providing the ultimate in pediatric and maternal health care. As a regional
referral center and one of only three pediatric hospitals in the United States
with a maternity unit, Children’s Hospital provides unique patient care to the
eight-county Western New York area. The new helipad has allowed the hospital to service farther outlieing communities.
The Women's and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo serves more than 28,000 inpatients annually,
and more than 150,000 outpatients visit the emergency department or one of the
45 specialty clinics each year. Virtually all medical and surgical problems of
infants, children, and adolescents are available for resident education
programs.
Included in the hospital’s 313 beds are 67 maternity beds.
Its maternity and high-risk maternity programs are complemented by its intensive
care nursery, which cares for nearly 1,000 critically ill full-term and
premature newborns annually – many of them weighing as little as one to two
pounds. Children’s Hospital has one of the highest rates of survival for
premature neonates in the country.
A private, non-profit hospital, Children’s Hospital is the
major teaching affiliate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ Department of Pediatrics. The
University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is housed here, as well.
More than 700 medical, nursing, and allied health students study at Children’s
Hospital each year. As part of its commitment to primary care, Children’s
Hospital maintains two clinics in underserved areas. In addition, a commitment
has been made to be intimately involved in providing primary care to
school-based clinics.
Buffalo General Hospital is a 501-bed acute care medical center providing a wide spectrum of clinical inpatient care and outpatient services. It is the largest hospital of Kaleida Health, and offers specialized programs in cardiac and orthopedic surgery, lithotripsy and urology, psychology, gynecology/obstetrics, dialysis, gastroenterology, cardiac rehabilitation, rehabilitation medicine, kidney and pancreas transplantation, neurology and nuerosurgery. It is also the main site for medical students and residents of the University at Buffalo.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), America's first cancer center founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park. RPCI is the only upstate New York facility to hold the National Cancer Center designation of "comprehensive cancer center" and to serve as a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Over its long history, Roswell Park Cancer Institute has made fundamental contributions to reducing the cancer burden and has successfully maintained an exemplary leadership role in setting the national standards for cancer care, research and education.
The campus spans 25 acres in downtown Buffalo and consists of 15 buildings with about one million square feet of space. A new hospital building, completed in 1998, houses a comprehensive diagnostic and treatment center. In addition, the Institute built a new medical research complex and renovated existing education and research space to support its future growth and expansion.
The campus recently became completely smoke free!
