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Comprehensive
Emergency Care
Nearly 136 million people visit emergency rooms While the constraints of our current ED footprint have
in the United States each year—a national been challenging, Strong’s multidisciplinary teams of
average of 42 out of every 100 people. From providers have always been dedicated to providing safe,
strokes and heart attacks to life-threatening high quality, efficient care for the residents of and visitors
injuries and psychiatric crises, hospital to the Rochester area. In July 2021, Daniel Brito—third
baseman for the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs collapsed on
emergency rooms across the country are Frontier Field in a game against the Rochester Red Wings.
responsible for caring for the nation’s patients Rushed to Strong, he was diagnosed and quickly treated
when something is suddenly wrong. for a ruptured arteriovenous malformation (AVM)—a tangle
of blood vessels that connects arteries and veins in the
To deliver world-class care at the forefront of innovation brain. Six months later he returned to baseball activities.
takes topnotch teams working in the best facility, one In the summer of 2022, Brito came back to Rochester to
that has private treatment spaces to improve clinical thank his care team and throw the ceremonial first pitch at
efficiency and safety, can accommodate families and Frontier Field.
the newest technology, and triage patients based on
their types of medical emergencies and level of acuity. In For more than 20 years, patients like Daniel Brito have
Strong Memorial Hospital’s new Emergency Department benefited from the collaborative research—conducted with
(ED), there will be designated and expanded spaces local, regional, national, and international colleagues—that
including areas for critical care, trauma care—in the remains at the center of Strong’s emergency care. Our
region’s only Level 1 trauma center, the Kessler Trauma research funding from the National Institutes of Health
Center—psychiatric or pediatric emergencies, and for (NIH) is among the top of all academic departments of
patients exposed to radiation, harmful chemicals, or emergency medicine—$3 million to $4 million in support
infectious diseases that require special care or isolation. annually and $2 million more in non-NIH funded projects.
A new ED will create the exceptional emergency Our investigators pursue topics such as emergency-based
medicine environment we need, and our patients and interventions for violence and suicide prevention, opiate
families deserve. and other drug and alcohol use problems, cancer
prevention, and biomarkers and treatments for
concussion. We are home to an emergency
medicine research fellowship and a
Daniel Brito: nationally recognized enrollment
A Baseball Player’s program that facilitates our success as
Road to Recovery a top enrolling site in several federally
sponsored trials. We also conduct 10
to 15 clinical trials each year, spanning
Read more of Daniel’s story: the breadth of emergency and clinical
uofr.us/roadtorecovery medicine, all to constantly refine,
update, and deliver to our patients the
latest emergency therapies, interventions,
and approaches to care.
