Strong Memorial and Highland hospitals and Rochester Regional Health will not allow visitation for adult patients positive for COVID-19. Non-COVID patients may have visitors, with restrictions.
Strong Memorial Hospital
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Rochester hospitals adapt to heightened demands of coronavirus surge
With the highest numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began, Rochester-area hospitals are adapting their medical care.
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Monroe County hospitals prepare for coronavirus ‘surge’
Officials have developed plans that would add 2,000 more hospital beds in Monroe County, if they are needed.
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Rochester hospitals face shortage of prescription drugs
Prescription drug shortages have been a fact of life for pharmacy workers across the country for more than a decade, and they’re a fact of life for Rochester hospitals. Now, trade disputes threaten to further interrupt the supply.
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Feldman says no to increasing armed UR officers
Addressing what has been a controversial issue concerning public safety on the University of Rochester campus’s various sites, President Richard Feldman has decided that armed Department of Public Safety “supervisors” will have unrestricted access to all parts of the UR’s campuses. But in a written statement released today, Feldman has decided against adding an armed […]
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Costs, effects, and a medical impasse
Denise Speicher, a fair-skinned, middle-aged woman with a big smile, seems sturdy and healthy. But three times a week, she makes a 20-minute trip to HighlandHospital, where she receives 3 1/2 hours of hemodialysis. The process cleans the toxins from her blood. Without it, Speicher would die within a couple of weeks. Speicher was born […]
