Healthcare Directory—Rochester General Hospital

Location Comments: Call and we will talk with you about your needs and how you can benefit from our services. Whatever health issues you need help with, we're here to help you stay active, positive, and in control of your life. Our Geriatric Consultative Services team led by two geriatricians, a certified nurse practitioner and certified case manager are here to work alongside you, your family members and your physicians and caregivers to help you stay independent as long as possible. We do not provide primary care, but we will work with your primary care physician. We provide expert evaluations and recommendations on a wide range of common conditions that you may be experiencing to help promote your independence, dignity, and comfort so that you can lead a productive and meaningful life.

Location Comments: RGHS offers seniors and their caregivers the care they need, when they need it. Whether you're looking for short-term rehabilitation or long-tern care, we have the programs and resources to help.

Location Comments: If you haven't been successful alone. If you've tried a healthy diet and exercise and your health is still at risk from being overweight, our team of bariatric surgeons and medical professionals can help. The Rochester General Bariatric Surgery Center has been named a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery. In consultation with you and your primary care physician, we can choose between bariatric (weight loss) procedures that work in one of two ways-limiting the amount of food you can consume or changing the way your food is digested. In conjunction with a healthy diet and a more active lifestyle, both have proven to be successful in helping patients lose weight.

Location Comments: From adolescence through pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and beyond, a woman's body and health needs change dramatically over time. At Rochester General Women's Health obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) practices, we take our responsibility to personalize the care and services we deliver to our patients very seriously. We understand that each woman we serve is unique with a different set of expectations about her lifestyle, her health and her sense of well-being. We also understand that bringing out the best in our patients requires us to be caring and compassionate listeners who are not only concerned with physical symptoms and conditions, but emotional and psychological ones as well. At RGHS, we address the issues that matter to you most, adapting and changing with you over time to continually offer the right care, information and treatments to meet your specific health needs at every stage of life.

Location Comments: With an emphasis on health services measured by quality and patient satisfaction, Rochester General Health System offers extraordinary care spanning from sports injuries and carpal tunnel repairs to total joint replacement and intricate spine procedures. The Orthopaedic Surgeons at Rochester General are some of the best physicians in the Greater Rochester NY region. Our orthopaedic experts have specialized training in orthopedic surgery as well as fellowship training in their subspecialty (i.e., hand surgery, joint replacement, sports medicine, etc.) and offer non-surgical and surgical orthopaedic care for adults, pediatrics and seniors. Based on our physicians' recognized reputations for providing medical excellence balanced with compassion, it's no surprise that patients have entrusted is with their orthopaedic care for decades.

Location Comments: The Rochester General Breast Center in Rochester NY is a leader in breast cancer care and treatment; is backed by the Lipson Cancer Center, a nationally recognized cancer center; and consists of experts on all aspects of breast cancer including: Breast cancer screening and diagnosis, including high risk breast cancer screening and genetic counseling, Medical oncology, Radiation oncology, Breast surgery, Breast reconstruction (plastic) surgery. Nearly 250,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year. These women are mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, friends and loved ones - both young women and older women. Learning that you have breast cancer can be terrifying. However, breast cancer is not the threat that it used to be due to the latest treatment options, cutting-edge research, and skill of breast cancer specialists like those at the Rochester General Breast Center.

Location Comments: Sometimes your road to recovery means surgery. Sometimes it doesn't. But always, it's a decision we make together-one team tirelessly dedicated to getting you back to health. With nationally recognized physicians and some of the most experienced surgeons in Rochester, the RGHS Surgical Services team provides a broad range of surgical care-from general surgery and plastic surgery to advanced neurosurgery and vascular surgery-and is at the forefront of health care.

Location Comments: The Sands-Constellation Heart Institute (SCHI) at Rochester General Health System is a nationally recognized for providing clinically excellent cardiac care, with compassion and attentiveness to the needs of patients and their loved ones. This award-winning cardiac program involves a close collaboration of many of the country's finest cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, doctors and nurses -all dedicated to delivering superior cardiology services focused on patient wellness. The Sands-Constellation Heart Institute has been designated nine times as a Thomson/Solucient Top 100 Cardiovascular hospital, and is ranked #1 for Cardiac Care in New York state and a top 3 Major Cardiac Surgery Center in the nation by CareChex, the hospital quality rating service of The Delta Group.

Location Comments: The Dawn & Jacques Lipson MD Cancer and Blood Center at RGHS was founded on a commitment to provide comprehensive cancer care from one integrated program, in which experts in medicine, radiation treatment and surgery work to treat the unique needs of each patient. Each day, our highly trained and dedicated oncology teams utilize leading-edge medical technology to create and administer personalized cancer treatment plans for our patients.