Page 10 - Celebrating 10 Years of Impact | George Eastman Circle | University of Rochester

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EASTMAN INSTITUTE

FOR ORAL HEALTH

• Educational support helped provide unique
opportunities for advanced, specialized dental education
and training, and for expanding areas of study such as
delivering care to older adults that helps manage chronic
diseases and degenerative illnesses.
• Annual funds also supported community outreach
dentistry, providing care via teledentistry across upstate
New York, in clinics, hospitals, and community health
centers across Rochester, and in mobile vans that care for
children in city schools and rural areas, and care for
children and adults with physical, developmental, or
$1.3 Million intellectual disabilities, as well as other medically
Pledged challenging conditions.
• Funds also supported our top-ranked national research
that is gaining international attention for a wide variety
of breakthrough discoveries, from fundamental science
to oral cancer, and bone loss to pain management.

UR MEDICINE

HOME CARE

• Funds for programs like Meals On Wheels provided
hundreds of thousands of nutritious, volunteer-delivered
meals to thousands of homebound recipients
throughout Monroe County.

• They also helped improve the health, well-being, and self-
sufficiency of hundreds of low-income, first-time
mothers and their children through the Nurse-Family
Partnership Program.
• UR Medicine Home Care monitored thousands of
patients’ blood pressure, temperature, weight, oxygen
$387,000 and glucose levels right from their homes using
Pledged Telehealth technology, resulting in an estimated annual
health care cost savings of $1.5 million.