Strong Memorial Hospital
hospital in New York, United States
Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH) is an 886-bed medical facility, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center complex, in Rochester, New York, United States. Opened in 1926, it is a major provider of both in-patient and out-patient medical services. Attached to Strong is the 190-bed Golisano Children's Hospital, which serves infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21.
Strong is owned and operated by the University of Rochester and serves as its primary teaching hospital. It offers programs toward medical, dental, or graduate degrees through the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The hospital anchors the University's health care delivery network in the Rochester area and serves as a primary community hospital and a regional trauma center for the Rochester area.
The facility opened initially as a medical school in 1925, with the hospital proper opening shortly thereafter. It began as a 250-bed teaching hospital.
In Brockport, New York, there is UR Strong West, which is an ER/Outpatient facility which is a division of Strong Memorial Hospital.
Human experimentation
From 1945 to 1947, Strong was the site of non-consensual human experimentation programs under supervision of the Manhattan Project and its successor, the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
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