ECMC Receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

American Heart Association Award recognizes ECMC’s commitment to quality stroke care

ECMC has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

ECMC Leads Autism Training for Law Enforcement and First Responders

A parent rushes off with a kicking and screaming young child and observers believe the scene is child abduction. An individual displaying unusual behavior in a residential neighborhood is observed looking into homes and police are notified that a burglar is threatening homes. A teenager keeps moving products around on shelves in a department store and security determines that the person is in the act of shoplifting. While all of those situations may be true, it may also be as true that the persons engaged in the specific cited activities have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the people that they first encounter, usually law enforcement or another first responder do not know that they are encountering a person with autism.

Reinvestment Fund and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Name Buffalo One of 50 Invest Health Cities

Buffalo to join innovative, national program to improve health in low-income neighborhoods

The City of Buffalo has been selected by Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to take part in the new Invest Health initiative. Invest Health is aimed at transforming how leaders from mid-size American cities work together to help low-income communities thrive, with specific attention to community features that drive health such as access to safe and affordable housing, places to play and exercise, and quality jobs.

ECMC to expand emergency care

Responding to recent surge in trauma cases, hospital plans to build new $45 million department beside the existing ER at Grider Street campus

Seventy-eight percent of inpatients at Erie County Medical Center, the Buffalo Niagara region’s Level 1 adult trauma center, come in through the emergency room, and 16 percent rise in demand has prompted the need for a new building with greater capabilities. Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News file photo

ECMC Community Report

Erie County Medical Center has a long, storied history in Western New York of high quality healthcare services, and recently the volume of patient activity and the expertise and high quality of our caregivers' services have reinforced ECMC as a healthcare leader in our community and a place of choice for patients.

ECMC Foundation Presents 27th Annual Springfest Gala at Buffalo Niagara Convention Center

Largest not-for-profit gala in WNY expected to draw over 1,600 attendees

Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation and the ECMC Foundation today announced that musical legends The Pointer Sisters and Sister Sledge will headline the 2016 Springfest Gala set for Saturday, May 7, 2016; at 6:00 PM, to be held at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. The Gala, the largest not-for-profit gala in Western New York, is expected to draw over 1,600 guests from the business, medical, and ECMC communities for an evening of entertainment, fine dining and celebration. The annual event will raise the highest gross in its history – approximately $900,000, which will benefit life-saving medical services at ECMC.

New York State Amends ECMCC Act to Promote Collaboration

Amendment identifies several initiatives allowing ECMCC, Kaleida Health & the University at Buffalo to continue progress under Great Lakes Health

Erie County Medical Center Corporation (ECMCC) today applauded Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for recently signing into law an amendment to the state public authorities’ law, permitting ECMCC to enter into agreements for the creation and operation of an integrated health care delivery services in collaboration with Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo. The legislation, sponsored by Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Senator Michael Ranzenhofer, amended a 2003 state law that had created the Erie County Medical Center Corporation as a standalone public benefit corporation.

Erie County Medical Center Celebrates Conclusion of Community Baby Shower

Annual Event Supports Moms & Babies Living Below the Poverty Line in Erie County

Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) will celebrate the conclusion of their Community Baby Shower on April 27th with a cupcake celebration and unveil the grand total of items they collected for the community.

National Organization Provides ECMC High Safety Rating in Annual Survey

Trusted, transparent and evidence-based national tool rates over 2,500 hospitals across the United States

Erie County Medical Center today announced that The Leapfrog Group, an independent, national not-for-profit organization founded more than a decade ago by the nation’s leading employers and private health care experts, has rated ECMC’s overall safety score at ‘B’, which places it among 638 other hospitals across the country receiving such a score. The Leapfrog patient surveys assesses: medical errors, accidents, injuries, infections and patient experiences.

Terrace View Long-Term Care Commended for Favorable State Survey

Annual NYS Department of Health survey shows continuing improvement for long-term health care services

ECMC today announced that the Terrace View Long-Term Care Facility has demonstrated a continuing, positive level of improvement for the care of its residents based on a recent NYS Department of Health survey.