Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation today announced that the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has again recognized ECMC’s Family Health Center and its Internal Medicine Center for achieving sustaining practices through the New York State Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PCMH™) program.* Both primary care services had
Read more →New ECMC Podcast: Stress Management through Holidays, Pandemic, More Chief Clinical Psychologist Lisa A. Keenan-Uschold, Ph.D., Offers Valuable Info & Advice BUFFALO, NEW YORK— Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation recently completed production of new True Care Healthcast podcast that offers coping strategies and advice to help get through the
Read more →Tune into WIVB-TV Channel 4 on Friday, May 22 from 3-4 pm to get your questions answered. The program will feature the following physicians. To get your questions answered send them to Ask4@wivb.com or call 716-204-8881. Richard Charles MD Dr. Charles is Chief Medical Officer for General
Read more →ECMC LEADERSHIP STANDS WITH ITS NURSES Federal government must provide PPE to frontline healthcare staff Erie County Medical Center Corporation Executive Leadership today stood with its dedicated nurses, calling on the federal government to utilize the Defense Production Act to make Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for caregivers
Read more →Achievement marks first ever five-star rating for 390-bed facility on ECMC health campus BUFFALO, NEW YORK – Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has determined that
Read more →BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Center Corporation recently received several advertising/marketing awards from the national publication, Healthcare Marketing Report. The publication’s 36th Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards for ECMC included a: Gold for ECMC 100th Anniversary Video (Digital Video category); Silver for ECMC Service Line Campaign (Integrated
Read more →More Patients Chose ECMC for Care in 2018 Than Ever Inpatient stays exceed 20,000 for first time in hospital’s history; bariatrics, head & neck, orthopaedic and transplant surgery increases contribute to historic 2018 operations BUFFALO, NEW YORK — Erie County Medical Center Corporation (ECMCC) today announced that
Read more →By Peter J. Ciotta Did you know that African Americans who live in five ZIP codes on Buffalo’s East Side (14204, 14206, 14211, 14212, and 14215) experience many of the worst health outcomes in Erie County? They are more likely to have serious chronic and often preventable
Read more →ECMC Kidney Transplantation Program Receives HRSA Grant $1.2 million Grant Awarded for Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ and Tissue Donation BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Read more →Addressing Cardiac Care Disparity in Niagara “George,” a 56-year-old unemployed welder, was complaining of chest pain when he walked into the emergency room at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. His unemployment assistance expired, he was living on public assistance and barely getting by in a drafty apartment
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