The trend to regional hospital consolidation is continuing as St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell announces it’s joined with UR Medicine. St James is the sixth hospital to join the UR Medicine network. Competition and economic pressures are forcing the smaller hospitals to join either UR Medicine or competing Rochester Regional Health. Hospitals in […]
Lifetime Health Medical Group will cut about 500 jobs from its primary care offices across Western New York as they move to UR Medicine and Rochester Regional Health ownership. Lifetime Health says the State Health Department granted permission last month for the merger to take place by January 1st. There are six Lifetime offices in […]
A group of doctors, nurses and medical staff from the University of Rochester Medical Center left for Puerto Rico early this morning, where millions remain without power or clean drinking water more than a month after Hurricane Maria blasted the island. The seven went to help people in need of medical help and also to […]