Talk:Rochester Regional Health

History section

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History

Chartered in 1847 and established in 1864, the Rochester City Hospital opened during the last years of the Civil War. Along with St. Mary’s hospital that was designated as a U.S. Army General Hospital, the City Hospital’s first major challenge was the treatment of 448 Union soldiers in the next two years. In the post-war years, the Hospital rapidly grew, embracing the advancement of medical technology, and becoming a leader in Surgery and Nursing. The Rochester City Hospital School of Nursing was established in 1880 and became the 12th nursing training program in the nation and the 3rd in New York State. Many graduates from the school would later have distinguished careers in nursing and as administrators and physicians.

Rochester City Hospital in 1864.

To reflect its all-encompassing mission, the hospital’s name changed to Rochester General Hospital in 1911. In the early years of the twentieth-century members of the medical staff responded to the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 and became the nucleus of the organized military hospitals, Base Hospital 19 in the First World War and the 19th General Hospital later on in Second World War.

The post Second World War years reflected a period of rapid growth and technological advancement. The hospital led the region by opening the first Premature Infant Nursery in Western New York in 1951. The absence of a hospital in the northern sections of the city prompted the establishment in 1956 of the new Rochester General Hospital Northside campus on Portland Avenue. While maintaining both the new “Northside” campus and the original, now designated “Westside” campus, the hospital continued to embrace the leading advancements in medical technology. The Westside campus closed in 1966 leaving Northside as the Rochester General Hospital.

The forerunner to the present Rochester Heart Institute, the Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory opened in 1959 and installed the first pacemaker in 1963 closely followed by the first open-heart surgery the following year.

Through the 1970s and 1980s the hospital continued to expand to serve the needs of the community. In response to evolving health care industry in 1984, Rochester General Hospital, along with its affiliates, combined with the Genesee Hospital, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, and the Continuing Care Network to form the Greater Rochester Health system (GRHS.)

In 1997 the system celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Rochester General Hospital. This year also saw the system change its name to ViaHealth, which comprised the Rochester General Hospital, The Genesee Hospital, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, The Behavioral Health Network and the Continuing Care network of long-term care providers.

In 2001 the Genesee Hospital closed its doors after 112 years of continual service to the Rochester community.

The organization again changed its branding name from Viahealth to the Rochester General Health System in 2008 to closer reflect its long history of commitment and service to the Rochester community.

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Recognition & Achievements

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• #3 in New York State for Overall Hospital Care, CareChex-Delta Group, 2011-2013
• #1 in New York State and Among Top 4 Nationally for Cardiac Care, CareChex-Delta Group, 2011-2013
• #3 in New York State for Overall Surgical Care, CareChex-Delta Group, 2011-2013

• Recognized by the American Hospital Association (AHA) in the access and quality section of the Community Connections: Ideas & Innovations for Hospital Leaders 2016: Case Examples
• Named a Top 100 Workforce Training Program by the Rochester Business Journal
• Named a 2015 Hypertension Control Champion by Million Hearts, an initiative led by the CDC and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Named at Top-Performing Nursing Facility from the New York State Health Department
• Recipient of 2016 Greater Rochester Quality Council (GRQC) Silver Award for Healthcare Team Excellence

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-- Jytdog (talk) 20:39, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Notable staff

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• Sophie French Palmer - Early Nurse Reformer and a founder and first editor of the American Journal of Nursing.
• Agnes Bartlett Curtis - Long-time Volunteer Red Cross Nurses Aide and American Red Cross administrator. During Second World War, as an administrator of the Eastern Area, Mrs. Curtis organized, trained, and placed volunteer nurses’ aides in nursing services, weakened by the departure of personnel for military service, in U.S. and overseas military hospitals. By the war's end, the active nurses' aides grew from 400 to 40,000.
• Dr. Ronald Kirshner - Distinguished Cardiac Surgeon. Dr. Kirshner is one of the busiest cardiac surgeons in New York State and is the visionary behind Rochester General Hospital becoming the first Cleveland Clinic Heart Surgery Center outside of Ohio. In addition to his practice of cardiac surgery, Dr. Kirshner has extensive training in the quality management of cardiac surgery and the application of the quality principles developed in industry to medicine and has extensive training is this area through leaders in this field including General Motors and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In 2001, Dr. Kirshner and his team received the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup for applying the teaching of the General Motor’s PICOS process to the practice of Cardiac Surgery."
• Dr. Stephen Rauh - Eminent Colorectal Surgeon- Rochester General’s burgeoning Robotics program is the largest in the region, and its volume places RGH among the top 1% of U.S. hospitals currently offering robotic surgery options. Dr. Rauh is a pioneer in robotic surgery and was one of the first colorectal surgeons in the country to utilize the da Vinci robot to perform colectomy's and other colorectal surgeries.

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