About Us
The History of Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong
2000 and Beyond
The excellence of care and research offered through the Department
of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital remains high at the
dawn of a new millennium.
2002
Strong Children's Hospital was renamed
Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong in honor of B. Thomas
Golisano, a local
entrepreneur and philanthropist, who donated $14 million to
the Children's
Hospital. Mr. Golisano is the founder, chairman, president
and CEO of Paychex, Inc. His donation is the single-largest
gift
given to the University by a living donor.
Expansion of Golisano Children's Hospital
at Strong continued with the opening of a pharmacy, ground-breaking
for a new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and the building
of a Ronald McDonald House.
Today
Today, Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong remains one of
the country's foremost teaching hospitals in the area of Pediatrics.
We have 49 categorical pediatrics residents, 30 medicine/pediatrics
residents, and 38 pediatric subspecialty fellows in training.
The faculty consists of 127 M.D.s, Ph.D.s, or M.D./Ph.D.s with
primary appointments in the Department of Pediatrics, and 111
physicians from other departments with secondary appointment.
The Department remains in the top 20 nationwide for National
Institutes of Health funding for department of pediatrics and
was named
one of America's top pediatric hospitals for 2003 by U.S. News
and World Report.
Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong has embarked upon a multi-million
dollar 5-year strategic plan to enhance all aspects of our academic
programs, including faculty recruitment and renovation of clinical,
research and education space. Plans include recruiting 20 new
pediatric faculty, completing a 22-bed Pediatric Intensive
Care
Unit
/Cardiac
Care Unit and building a state-of-the-art Surgical Suite. We
are also renovating all inpatient floors and will be expanding
our
ambulatory
space. Research enhancements include centers of excellence
in several areas: neonatal and pulmonary biology; genetics; cardiovascular
disease; infectious diseases and vaccine biology; and child health
services research.
