ECMC Awarded Gilead Sciences “Focus Grant”

Funds will support HIV, hepatitis B and C testing and testing-related services

Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation officials today announced that ECMC has been awarded a $351,289 grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc., to develop a replicable model program that embodies best practices in HIV and/or hepatitis screening and linkage to care.

ECMC performing record number of kidney transplants

Erie County Medical Center is on pace to finish the year with its largest number of kidney transplants ever at the hospital. To date, the medical center has performed 109 kidney transplants in 2016 and 10 kidney-pancreas transplants. That's up from 69 kidney or kidney-pancreas cases in 2012, the year after the hospital opened a $27 million regional transplant and kidney care center as part of a project to combine the once-competitive programs at ECMC and Kaleida Health's Buffalo General Medical Center.

ECMC Residents Awarded by NY-ACP in Quality Improvement Poster Competition

Aishwarya Bhardwaj ASCVD poster earned first prize; Mansi Nigam OSA poster won second prize

The New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) held their statewide poster competition on November 5^th at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City at the NYACP Resident and Medical Student Forum. The competition attracted over 300 abstract submissions with 142 being accepted to the poster competition.

Kidney Transplants Reach Record High at ECMC in 2016; Procedures Improve Quality of Life, Give Hope

118 kidney transplants, from living and deceased donors, reach highest level of transplant activity in ECMC history; 13 pancreas transplants also performed

Erie County Medical Center Corporation (ECMCC) today announced that 2016 will establish the highest level of kidney transplant activity in the hospital’s history. To date, 118 kidney transplants have taken place at ECMC, coming from both living and deceased donors. Since 2010, kidney transplants at ECMC have increased approximately 19.4%. In addition to the kidney transplants, ECMC’s Regional Transplantation and Kidney Care Center of Excellence performed 13 pancreas transplants in 2016, taking the Center’s total transplants to an all-time high of 131.

Putting Patients Back Together

ECMC is proud of Dr. Thom Loree being featured in the latest Traffic East publication. His leadership at ECMC’s Center for Cancer and Oncology Care has had a profoundly positive impact both in the hospital and for the patients he and his colleagues serve.

WNY Living: Bariatric Surgery and Success Rates

Joseph A. Caruana, MD, FACS, Director of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Bariatric Surgeon, ECMC Synergy Bariatrics and one of his patients appear on WGRZ-TV, Channel 2’s WNY Living show to discuss bariatric surgery and success rates.

ECMC Commemorates World AIDS Day

Every year, staff members of ECMC Immunodeficiency Services commemorate World AIDS Day by handing out red ribbons, information and brochures to patients, visitors and employees throughout the day in the medical center main lobby.

ECMC Family Health Center Earns NCQA “Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition”

National organization’s quality standards based on use of systematic, patient-centered, coordinated care that supports access, communication and patient involvement

Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation today announced that the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) informed ECMC that its ECMC Family Health Center has achieved recognition status for “Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PCMH™), Recognized–Level 3.”* The effective dates of this Recognition begin November 18, 2016 and expire November 18, 2019.