UR Medicine will temporarily close its ambulatory surgical center on Sawgrass Drive in Brighton in order to transfer staff to deal with COVID-19 patients at the URMC.
UR Medicine is facing a staffing shortage and numbers of COVID patients continue to arrive. A memo to staff says they understand this is hard on patients who will have scheduled surgeries delayed or deferred, but they see no better alternative based on their projections of patients coming in to UR Medicine hospitals.
Staff will be moved from Sawgrass to hospital units based on need.
UR medicine says the closure will be brief and evaluated on a day-to-day basis.