Summary
The state has given the go-ahead for the merger of two competing kidney-pancreas transplant programs, a project with major implications for consolidating Erie County Medical Center and Kaleida Health.
The $22 million plan includes converting the 10th floor of the medical center into a kidney disease and transplant center and demolishing unused buildings on the Grider Street campus to make room for a new outpatient dialysis facility.See the full content of this document
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State Oks Merger of Transplant Programs ; Consolidated Center Planned at Ecmc
The 10th-floor center will include 22 private inpatient rooms, while the outpatient facility will have 24 dialysis stations, an increase of 10 stations at the hospital.
For years, advocates of hospital consolidation cited the competing kidney t...See the full content of this document
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