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Strong Memorial Hospital

Location

Strong Memorial Hospital
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue
Box 704
Rochester, NY 14642
Direct phone: (585) 275-1941

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 20
  • PBSC: 119
  • Cord Blood: 16
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 192
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

Pediatric/Adult combined program, non-myeloablative transplants, cord blood transplantation, prevention of GVHD, Haplo identical transplants, comprehensive team for management and treatment of chronic GVHD. FACT accredited, Blue Distinction Center for Transplant (BDCT), Aetna, United Resource Networks.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1989 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 1992.

Attending physicians

Adult - Omar Aljitaw, Jeff Andolina, Paul Barr, Michael Becker, Jonathan Friedberg, Eric Huselton, Jane Liesveld, Brea Lipe, Kristen Odwyer, Pat Regan

Pediatric - Craig Mullen

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

Ronald McDonald, Hope Lodge, RIT, Staybridge INN

About the center

Overview

Pediatric/Adult combined program, non-myeloablative transplants, cord blood transplantation, prevention of GVHD, Haplo identical transplants, comprehensive team for management and treatment of chronic GVHD. FACT accredited, Blue Distinction Center for Transplant (BDCT), Aetna, United Resource Networks.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1989 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 1992.

Attending physicians

Adult - Omar Aljitaw, Jeff Andolina, Paul Barr, Michael Becker, Jonathan Friedberg, Eric Huselton, Jane Liesveld, Brea Lipe, Kristen Odwyer, Pat Regan

Pediatric - Craig Mullen

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Other programs and services

Ronald McDonald, Hope Lodge, RIT, Staybridge INN

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 235 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 72.7%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 70.1% and 80.7%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


322

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 8 26 0 34
Unrelated donor 3 92 15 110
Total allogeneic 11 118 15 144
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
178
-- 178
Total combined
307 15 322

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


25

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 4 1 0 5
Unrelated donor 5 0 1 6
Total allogeneic 9 1 1 11
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
14
-- 14
Total combined
24 1 25

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 5 13 15 6 40
Unrelated 7 16 57 36 116
Autologous 14 22 82 74 192
Total 26 51 154 116 348

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Sharon Swift
(585) 275-2262
Email: sharon_swift@urmc.rochester.edu

Financial representative:
Joyce Sauer
(585) 275-5019
Email: joyce_sauer@urmc.rochester.edu

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743

Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410.
(Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

Survivorship program

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