Strong Memorial Hospital

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Strong Memorial Hospital
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Strong Memorial Hospital
Geography
Location Rochester, New York, U.S.
Organisation
Care system Medicare
Type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Rochester Medical Center
Services
Emergency department Level I trauma center
Beds886
SpecialityCancer, Cardiology, Neuromedicine, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics
History
Opened1926
Links
Website strong.urmc.edu

Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH) is an 886-bed medical facility, [1] 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.

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SMH 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 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.

SMH offers care in 40 different specialties and is ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report, and has won the Consumer Choice Award for the best hospital in the area for 12 consecutive years. Strong has signature programs in cardiac care, cancer care, neurology, orthopedics and pediatrics.

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. [2] A building adjacent to the hospital and connected to it via tunnel, dubbed the "Manhattan Annex," was constructed in 1943 as a field office for the Manhattan Project. [3] Over a period of two years starting in 1945, a total of seventeen patients admitted to Strong for unrelated ailments were injected with a plutonium or uranium solution without their knowledge. [2] [4] The Atomic Energy Commission tracked the patients for the rest of their lives; after their deaths, the Commission exhumed their remains for testing. Surviving patients were later informed of the true nature of the experiments in 1974. [2]

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References

  1. "NYS Health Profile: Strong Memorial Hospital". profiles.health.ny.gov.
  2. 1 2 3 American Nuclear Guinea Pigs: three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens (Report). Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power. 1986. Archived from the original on 2002-02-21.
  3. Eileen Welsome (1999). The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War. New York: Dial Press. pp.  90–91. ISBN   0-385-31402-7 . Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  4. Eileen Welsome (1999). The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War. New York: Dial Press. pp.  168–169. ISBN   0-385-31402-7.

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