State-of-the-Region: Performance Indicators for the Buffalo-Niagara
Region In the 21st Century
HEALTH
| Link | Description |
| Beechwood Continuing Care | "...provides a continuum of long-term care which includes independent, intermediate, rehabilitative, and skilled nursing services..." |
| Bry-Lin Hospitals | "...comprehensive provider of psychiatric, addiction medicine, and behavioral health services..." |
| Buffalo Free-Net Medical Center | "...provides public access to a wide range of Internet health and medical information..." |
| Buffalo Psychiatric Center | "...on National Endangered Properties list..." |
| Catholic Health System Our Lady of Victory Hospital Sisters of Charity Hospital |
"...provides a full array of medical services
including acute care, ambulatory care and long-term
care..." "...Buffalo's first hospital, established by six Sisters of Charity in 1848, Sisters Hospital has grown through its nearly 150 years as a major provider of health care in WNY..." |
| Center for Hospice & Palliative Care | "...mission is to provide a continuum of health and mental health services that enhance the comfort and quality of life for patients and families experiencing the impact of serious illness and loss..." |
| Children's
Hospital of Buffalo Women and Children First |
"...the regional center for comprehensive,
specialized pediatric and women's health services for the Western New York
Region and beyond..." "We believe Children's Hospital must remain an independent, free-standing full service institution. Children's Hospital must not be closed, moved or downsized. We believe Children's Hospital is vital to the health care of children throughout Western New York and must remain the regional center of excellence that it is." |
 Ecology & Environment Issues in Buffalo, NY |
"...Resources for the environmentally concerned in Buffalo, New York..." |
| Erie County Health Department | "...Erie County Health Department programs..." |
| Erie County Medical Center | "...treats over 250,000 Erie County residents every year..." |
| Healthy People 2010 | "...a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative that brings together national, State, and local government agencies; nonprofit, voluntary, and professional organizations; businesses; communities; and individuals to improve the health of all Americans, eliminate disparities in health, and improve years and quality of healthy life..." |
| Independent Health | "...in February 1980...began operating in Western New York as one of the area's first federally qualified health maintenance organizations (HMOs)..." |
| Kaleida Health System | "...the combined facilities, services, resources and talented physicians and staff who made the Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo General Hospital, DeGraff Memorial Hospital and Millard Fillmore Health System's Gates Circle and Suburban locations a success for more than 150 years..." |
 Medical Professionalism Project (MPP 2000) |
"...Why is raising awareness about the core value of medical professionalism important? As sweeping changes and uncertainty in health care accelerate, the ABIM and ACP-ASIM Foundations and EFIM see value and advantage in convening this collaborative project because medical professionalism is universally endangered. The unionization of residents and practicing physicians, conflicts of interest precipitated by managed care and for-profit medicine, and the paradoxical role of the pharmaceutical industry in patient care and medical education are but a few of the issues that challenge the medical profession globally. A united front to influence and inform the culture and context of both clinical practice and medical training are particularly timely, appropriate and needed as a new millennium begins..." |
| Medical Society of the County of Erie | "...the professional association of physicians of Erie County created to promote and deliver quality medical care..." |
| Mercy Flight Western New York | "...an independent, non-for-profit provider of air medical transport and supporting services, ensures rapid, safe, cost-effective delivery of expert emergency response personnel, patients, medical specialty teams, organs, and medical supplies and equipment..." |
| Niagara Health Quality Coalition | "...brings together a governing board of directors comprised of employers, providers, physicians and insurers in Western New York..." |
| NOAH: New York Online Access to Health | "...seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased...[in] both English and Spanish, a unique feature that allows us to serve the often underserved Spanish-speaking population..." |
| Roswell Park Cancer Institute | |
| "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System" | "Institute of Medicine report...sets forth a national agenda--with state and local implications--for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system..." |
| UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | "...the university's oldest division and one of the major biomedical research complexes in the SUNY system...more than 800 students and 750 faculty engage in educational and research activities in the biomedical sciences at the university's health sciences complex on its South Campus...offers clinical training and medical education at eight affiliated teaching hospitals..." |
| Univera Healthcare | "...established in 1976 as Western New York's first health maintenance organization (HMO)..." |
| Veterans Administration
Healthcare Network Upstate New York Batavia VAMC Buffalo VAMC |
"...an integrated, university-affiliated Medical Center providing a full continuum of medical, surgical, mental health and long term care services..." |
| WNY Healthcare Association | "...serves as the center of health information in Western New York..." |