Category: News & Media
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ECMC Cancer Program Accredited by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
ECMC earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons BUFFALO, NY—The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has granted another Three-Year Accreditation to the cancer program at Erie County Medical Center.
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ECMC’s Terrace View Long-Term Care Facility Awarded as One of Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes 2026
Facility earns prestigious national recognition for sixth consecutive year BUFFALO, NY—Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation today announced that Terrace View Long-Term Care Facility has again been recognized on Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes 2026 list. This prestigious award, which Terrace View has received in six consecutive years, is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc.
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ECMC Trauma Center Receives National Reverification
American College of Surgeons confirms medical center’s elite status; reverifies ECMC as a Level I trauma center BUFFALO, NEW YORK – Following a recent survey, ECMC has been reverified as a Level 1Trauma Center by the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
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Erie County Medical Center Update (3:00pm, EST)
BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) today has updated information regarding the patients that were transported on Friday, August 22, 2025 to ECMC from the tour bus crash scene on the New York State Thruway. A total of 21 patients were transported to ECMC on 8/22/25. Discharged Patients Seventeen (17) patients have been discharged…
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Physicians brought ER expertise to scene of deadly tour bus crash on Thruway
ECMC Emergency Department attending physician Dr. Joseph Bart provides insight into medical response to the tour bus crash on the NYS Thruway on Friday, August 22, 2025: https://www.wivb.
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Erie County Medical Center Update (9:00am, EST)
BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) today has updated information regarding the bus crash patients that were transported on Friday, August 22, 2025 to ECMC from the tour bus crash scene on the New York State Thruway. A total of 21 patients were transported to ECMC on 8/22/25. Discharged Patients Eleven (11) patients have…
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Erie County Medical Center Update
BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) today has updated information regarding the bus crash patients that were transported yesterday to ECMC from the crash scene on the New York State Thruway. A total of 21 patients were transported to ECMC (Note: this information was reconciled earlier today from the previously reported 24 patients that…
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The Buffalo News: Another Voice: ECMC and Independent Health are working to improve mammography access
The use of mammography to detect breast cancer has saved innumerable lives. According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the five-year breast cancer survival rate is 99%when the disease is caught in its earliest, localized stages. Yet, despite the availability of breast cancer screening, the incidence of breast cancer mortality among Black females in Western…
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ECMC Awarded $10.9M State grant for Behavioral Health Services
ECMC receives grant funds through NYS DOH’s Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program IV to support Behavioral Health expansion and care enhancements BUFFALO, NEW YORK – ECMC today confirmed receipt of a $10.
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Erie County Medical Center Opens State-of-the-Art breast health center
Center, supported by Independent Health, will provide a full continuum of care, from education and screening to reconstruction and oncology treatment BUFFALO, NEW YORK—Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation today celebrated the opening of its new Breast Health Center, which will provide a full continuum of care, from education and screening to reconstruction and oncology…