Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI)
www.roswellpark.org

Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), America's first cancer center was founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park. RPCI is the only upstate New York facility to hold the National Cancer Center designation of "comprehensive cancer center" and to serve as a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Over its long history, Roswell Park Cancer Institute has made fundamental contributions to reducing the cancer burden and has successfully maintained an exemplary leadership role in setting the national standards for cancer care, research and education.

The campus spans 25 acres in downtown Buffalo and consists of 15 buildings with about one million square feet of space. A new hospital building, completed in 1998, houses a comprehensive diagnostic and treatment center. In addition, the Institute built a new medical research complex and renovated existing education and research space to support its future growth and expansion.

For more information about Roswell Park and cancer in general, please contact the Cancer Call Center at 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724).



Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo
www.wchob.org

Children’s Hospital was established in 1892 as the place dedicated to caring for sick and injured children in Buffalo.

Today, Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, a Kaleida Health facility and teaching hospital for the University at Buffalo School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, is the regional center for specialized pediatric, perinatal and obstetrical services in Western New York and beyond.
 
Children receiving care at Women & Children’s Hospital have immediate access to a complete range of pediatric medical specialists from more than thirty medical fields of expertise.  Women & Children’s is also the only hospital in the region to have a broad range of pediatric surgical specialists.  Board Certified pediatric anesthesiologists have advanced received training to meet the special clinical needs of children and are among the few nationally that specialize in pediatrics.

Women & Children's Hospital is also the regional center for women to receive care before, during and after delivering their baby.  Designated by New York State as the Regional Perinatal Center, hospitals from the surrounding eight counties of Western New York transfer in their most critically ill infants and high-risk expectant mothers to Women & Children’s Hospital for the highest level of medical care available.  Women & Children’s Hospital has 24-hour in-house coverage by adult internal medicine physicians to address all urgent medical needs of women and in support of the full range of OB/GYN care available.

For more information about Women & Children's Hospital, please go to www.wchob.org or call (716) 878-7000.