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The Region’s Leader in Stroke Care and Research

Every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a In state-of-the-art facilities, we are employing new
stroke. Nearly 130,000 people die from stroke every year, imaging technologies that enable us to visualize viable
but more than 795,000 people have a stroke and survive, brain tissue, and we are using innovative devices that
putting them at risk for major long-term disability. are able to remove blood clots from the brain. With the
Beyond stroke’s staggering individual impact, there is help of these and other medical advances, including the
a significant underlying economic effect, where the expanded time windows for acute treatment, we are
annual total cost of stroke care in Monroe County and providing world-class care for stroke patients.
surrounding regional counties is more than $228 million.
These improvements, coupled with educational
Over the past decade, the University of Rochester Medical programming, empower our collaborative partnerships,
Center (URMC) has been a national source of stroke such as the Stroke Treatment Alliance of Rochester, and
expertise and leadership. Our multisystem approach, help enable us to increase stroke awareness and care
collaborative initiatives, and cutting-edge research are across the region. Stroke care and research are entering
allowing us to provide some of the most advanced, a revolution, and we will be among its leaders.
cost-effective care for stroke patients available.

Two specialty programs at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial For the five previous years, the
Hospital—Neurology and Neurosurgery—have been specialties received “best” marks
ranked among the top 50 in the nation for 2016-17 by in patient services and advanced
U.S. News & World Report. They are the only such technologies, two important factors
programs in upstate New York listed in the rankings. in the programs’ high success rate.

ON THE COVER

Tarun Bhalla, MD, PhD, co-director of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Services, performs an endovascular treatment of
an aneurysm in UR Medicine’s Hybrid Operating Room/Endovascular Suite.