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Strong is one of the five largest programs in the Cardiac surgeons recently completed our 1,000th
country for ventricular assistive devices (VADs), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
devices that keep blood pumping through the body surgery. ECMO is a specialized type of life support that
when a heart is damaged. We have participated in nearly allows patients who are experiencing respiratory or
every major clinical study involving VADs and teams cardiac failure to remain in stable condition while their
have implanted more than 900 of them to date. heart or lungs recover.

We are the only hospital in the region with advanced We will continue to change the way cardiovascular
heart failure and heart transplant programs. disease is treated, in a new facility that provides our
We recently performed our 300th heart transplant. patients with four floors of the most innovative care
coupled with the personal attention and accessibility
Our Division of Vascular Surgery is the only formally that is rarely possible at heart centers in major
accredited academic vein center in upstate New York metropolitan areas.
and was recognized as a three-star Vascular Quality
Initiative (VQI) program for the fourth consecutive
year in 2022.