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University of Rochester Medical Center

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The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), now known as UR Medicine, is located in Rochester, New York, is one of the main campuses of the University of Rochester and comprises the university's primary medical education, research and patient care facilities.

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University of Rochester Medical Center
Forest Lane, City of Rochester

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14642 City of Rochester
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Strong Memorial Hospital

Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH) is an 886-bed medical facility, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center complex (abbreviated URMC), 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. 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. It serves as a primary community hospital and a regional trauma center for the Rochester area. Also part of the network are Golisano Children's Hospital, and URMC affiliate Highland Hospital.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. As an affiliated academic research hospital, patients have access to the latest treatments. Strong also provides emergency medical services. SMH is a teaching hospital and patients may interact with faculty, residents, fellows, interns and/or medical students.

University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It enrolls approximately 6,800 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. It was founded in 1850 and moved into its current campus, next to the Genesee River in 1955. With approximately 30,000 full-time employees, the university is the largest private employer in Upstate New York and the 7th largest in all of New York State.Rochester offers 160 undergraduate and 30 graduate programs across seven schools spread throughout five campuses. The College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is the largest school, which includes the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and houses some of the college's departments and divisions. The Institute of Optics was founded in 1929 and is regarded among the premier optics programs in the world. The Departments of Political Science and Economics have influenced positivist social science since the 1960s. The Rossell Hope Robbins Library serves as the university's resource for Old and Middle English texts and expertise. The school is noted for its Rochester curriculum, which has only required one course and requires a breadth of study across fields.The university is also home to Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a national laboratory supported by the US Department of Energy that is the largest university-based US Department of Energy program in the nation The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a member of the Association of American Universities, which emphasizes academic research.Rochester alumni, faculty, and affiliates include recipients of 13 Nobel Prizes, 9 National Medals of Science, 13 Pulitzer Prizes, 45 Grammy Awards, and 20 Guggenheim Fellowships.

University of Rochester Arboretum

The University of Rochester Arboretum is an arboretum located across the River Campus of the University of Rochester, 612 Wilson Boulevard, Rochester, New York. The River Campus is located beside the Genesee River on a site previously owned by the Oak Hill Country Club. Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. had designed a "River Walk" of oak trees along the river; and after the university purchased the site in 1923, his son Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. served as landscape designer and consultant to the campus architects. In 1999 certain areas of the campus were designated as the arboretum. The River Walk was recently sold to the City of Rochester as public parkland along the river corridor. In a 1 km (¾ mile) area between Elmwood Avenue and Intercampus Drive are 197 oak trees representing 15 species. Trees in the arboretum proper currently include: American Beech (Fagus grandifolia), Amur corktree (Phellodendron amurense), Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum), Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica), Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), Goldenraintree (Koelreuteria paniculata), Hally Jolivette cherry (Prunus 'Hally Jolivette'), Japanese Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium japonicum), Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata), Katsura Tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum), Kentucky Coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus), Kanzan cherry (Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan'), Late Lilac (Syringa villosa), Miyabe's Maple (Acer miyabei), Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera), Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum), Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra), Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea), Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra), Shadblow serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis), Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) and Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera). Although not located on the River Campus, the university grounds also contain two state champion trees, a weeping willow and a Ponderosa Pine. They are the largest known examples in the New York state.