Impartial Well being Medical Workplace Constructing Devoted at ECMC
Impartial Well being generously contributed $1 million to ECMC’s Capital Marketing campaign; Renamed facility on ECMC well being campus homes ECMC Household Well being Middle
BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Middle (ECMC) Company at present joined representatives of Impartial Well being to dedicate the newly renamed Impartial Well being Medical Workplace Constructing, which homes ECMC Household Well being Middle and the Kaleida Well being Kensington OB-GYN clinic on the establishment’s Grider Road well being campus. In 2019, Impartial Well being donated a beneficiant $1M grant for ECMC’s capital marketing campaign, which led to the development of the brand new state-of-the-art KeyBank Trauma and Emergency Division, in addition to different capital enhancements on the 65-acre well being campus.
Impartial Well being President and Chief Govt Officer Michael W. Cropp, M.D., MBA, said, “Impartial Well being is proud to help the Erie County Medical Middle in its dedication to offering its sufferers individualized care delivered with excellence, compassion, security and effectivity. By means of the years, the Impartial Well being and ECMC groups have cast wide-ranging and efficient partnerships which were important for advancing well being care, and we’re very happy with the newly named Impartial Well being Medical Constructing. I look ahead to continued collaboration with ECMC as we establish methods to positively influence the well-being of others and our area.”
ECMC Company President and CEO Thomas J. Quatroche Jr., PhD, mentioned, “We’re very grateful to Impartial Well being for his or her management in supporting the ECMC Capital Marketing campaign for the brand new Trauma and Emergency Division. We’re very happy to acknowledge them with the naming of this constructing, which homes our household well being companies. ECMC and IHA work collaboratively to make sure entry and high quality for main care in our group, and this is only one extra instance of the power of that partnership. I wish to thank IHA CEO Michael Cropp for his management in our group and Jon Dandes, Chair of the ECMC capital marketing campaign, for his management in securing this donation.”
Impartial Well being Govt Vice President and Chief Medical Provide Anthony J. Billittier IV, MD, added: “ECMC has turn into the trauma and emergency care vacation spot of selection for many who expertise essential harm or different medical emergencies, even when different care choices can be found, as every affected person receives the identical excessive degree of care. The shared dedication and alignment of each Impartial Well being and ECMC are evident within the work we do collectively to enhance the lives of our group.”
ECMC’s Household Well being Middle, now housed within the Impartial Well being Medical Workplace Constructing, accommodates 22 examination rooms, onsite phlebotomy, and 9 healthcare suppliers. Main care companies within the Middle embrace:
- Immunization and vaccines
- Complete preventative and wellness care
- Properly youngster visits (new child via teenagers)
- Sexually transmitted illness counseling
- Most cancers screening
- Hypertension screening
- Ldl cholesterol screening
- Therapy for acute and persistent sicknesses
- Therapy or referral for acute accidents
- Complete bodily examinations
- Well being and wellness packages
- Blood testing
- Complete lab companies
- Prenatal care
- Primary colposcopy
- Stitches
- Pores and skin biopsy
- Wart elimination
- Urine being pregnant testing
- Blood glucose testing
ABOUT INDEPENDENT HEALTH: Impartial Well being, a not-for-profit well being plan headquartered in Buffalo, New York, serves almost 355,000 members and gives revolutionary well being care merchandise and advantages designed to have interaction customers of their well being and well-being. Established in 1980, our complete portfolio of progressive merchandise embrace HMO, POS, PPO and EPO merchandise, Medicare and Medicaid plans, conventional indemnity insurance coverage, particular person and small group Alternate merchandise, consumer-directed plans and well being financial savings accounts, plus protection for self-funded employers. Our subsidiaries and affiliate firms embrace pharmacy profit administration, specialty pharmacy and the Impartial Well being Basis. The corporate has been acknowledged nationally for its award profitable customer support, dedication to high quality well being care and unmatched relationships with physicians and suppliers. To study extra, go to www.independenthealth.com.
About Erie County Medical Middle (ECMC) Company: The ECMC Company was established as a New York State Public Profit Company and since 2004 has included a sophisticated tutorial medical heart with 573 inpatient beds, on- and off-campus well being facilities, greater than 30 outpatient specialty care companies and Terrace View, a 390-bed long-term care facility. ECMC is Western New York’s solely Stage 1 Grownup Trauma Middle, in addition to a regional heart for burn care, behavioral well being companies, transplantation, medical oncology and head & neck most cancers care, rehabilitation and a serious educating facility for the College at Buffalo. Most ECMC physicians, dentists and pharmacists are devoted college members of the college and/or members of a non-public follow plan. Extra Western New York residents are selecting ECMC for distinctive affected person care and affected person experiences – the distinction between healthcare and true care™.
