Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester

Rankings & Ratings

To help patients decide where to receive care, U.S. News generates hospital rankings by evaluating data on nearly 5,000 hospitals. To be nationally ranked in a specialty, a hospital must excel in caring for the sickest, most medically complex patients.

Photos

1 of 1

Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester has a state of the art facility

Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester has a state of the art facility

Main entrance of the University of Rochester Medical Center / © Shirley Zimmerkidd

Patient Experience

Scores are based on surveys taken from this hospital’s inpatients after they were discharged inquiring about different aspects of their stay. The scores are not used in the Best Hospitals rankings.

Health Equity

Health equity, according to the World Health Organization, is the absence of unjust and avoidable differences among groups of people, regardless of social, economic or demographic identification. U.S. News evaluates hospital performance in health equity by analyzing data on various dimensions of equity for historically underserved patients.

Community Residents Who Accessed Elective Care at this Hospital

How well the surrounding community is represented in the population treated by the hospital. Lower scores indicate that non-white populations may be underrepresented in the hospital's patient population.

Community access is calculated as the percentage of local patients by race or ethnicity treated at this hospital for elective inpatient procedures compared to their proportion within the community. The hospital’s community is defined as its hospital service area (HSA), a group of surrounding zip codes whose residents receive a majority of care from hospitals in the area.

Preventive Care for Black Residents in This Community

How effectively preventive care for Black residents in this hospital's service area reduces potentially avoidable hospitalizations. Lower scores indicate that preventive care may be inadequate for Black residents in this community. Preventive care may be provided in hospitals or other healthcare settings in the community. Scores are determined for the hospital service area as a whole, not individual hospitals, and all hospitals in a given hospital service area received the same score.

The data set forth at the Preventive Care for Black Residents in This Community portion and certain elements of the Community Residents Who Accessed Elective Care at This Hospital portion of this Health Equity section were obtained from the Dartmouth Atlas Data website, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute, under award number UL1TR001086 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in part, by the National Institute of Aging, under award number U01 AG046830.

Contact & Location