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5.0 Community Facilities & Services

The quality, supply and variety of a community's services and facilities are important to the overall quality of life a community can offer its residents. Education, emergency services, recreational opportunities and cultural enrichment have a substantial impact on the appeal of a community as a place to live. This chapter explores the resources available to residents in the Village of Pittsford, including historic resources, educational facilities, libraries, emergency services, recreational facilities and social services.

5.5 Health Services

Health care is provided to the Village residents through the following area health centers:

• Monroe Community Hospital is a Monroe County-owned 556-bed residential long-term care facility located 5.3 miles from the Village in Rochester.

• An affiliate of Strong Health, Highland Hospital is a 268-bed community hospital and is located 5.5 miles from the Village in Rochester. Highland Hospital provides primary care, women's health and senior services.

• Strong Memorial Hospital, located in Rochester and 6 miles from the Village, is a 750-bed regional referral center, providing a full spectrum of general and specialized inpatient and outpatient services for adults, children and newborns. Strong Memorial Hospital is also the primary teaching hospital of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and School of Nursing. As the regional trauma center it also houses an inpatient burn unit.

• Park Ridge Hospital is a 259-bed community hospital providing adult acute care inpatient services including obstetrics, as well as physical medicine, rehabilitation, oncology, ambulatory surgery, dialysis, psychiatry and a cardiac diagnostic center. Park Ridge Hospital is located 15.8 miles from the Village.

• Rochester General Hospital, located 6.3 miles from the Village, is a 526-bed acute care, teaching hospital. Rochester General Hospital is New York's fourth largest cardiac center. It also supports a trauma center and a pediatric intensive care unit.

• Genesee Hospital that was located in Rochester closed on May 21, 2001 due to continuing financial losses. Serving primarily the southeast section of the City of Rochester and Monroe County including Pittsford, Genesee Hospital was a 385-bed acute care facility including a skilled nursing facility. Due to strong community support, this facility is planned to be opened in 2002 as a Diagnostic and Treatment Center with a number of outpatient services and an urgent care center.

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