SAUNDERS FOUNDATION MAKES $1 MILLION DONATIONTO UR MEDICINE | NOYES HEALTH
Gift Will Support Expansion and Renovation of Noyes’ Radiology Department in Dansville
Gift Will Support Expansion and Renovation of Noyes’ Radiology Department in Dansville
Department will be
Named E. Michael Saunders Imaging Services
(Dansville, N.Y. September 29, 2018) Plans are drawn and
construction begins soon on what will become the new E. Michael Saunders
Medical Imaging Services department at Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville.
The Saunders Foundation is making a $1 million gift to UR
Medicine | Noyes Health to support the project, and to honor the memory of E.
Michael Saunders, the son of Phil and Carole Saunders. Noyes President and CEO
Amy Pollard announced the gift at the “Noyes Takes Flight!” fundraising event
at the Dansville airport this evening. The new department, to be known as E.
Michael Saunders Imaging Services, will feature the addition of a PET/CT
scanner, giving patients of the Ann and Carl Myers Cancer Center at Noyes and
other hospital departments the option of getting the diagnostic imaging they need
in Dansville rather than traveling to Rochester or farther. The expanded space
will also include a new interventional radiology (IR) suite, and offer complete
care for port and catheter insertion, biopsies, maintenance of dialysis
fistulas and other invasive procedures.
“Our family is excited to be doing this for the community,
and it’s a fitting tribute to our beloved Michael,” says Patricia Saunders
Redding, “This project will raise the level of care given locally to all Noyes
patients in Dansville and beyond, and support the goal of elevating UR Medicine
| Noyes Health as a hub hospital in the region.”
“We are so grateful to Phil, Carole, their family and the
Saunders Foundation for their generosity and continued support for Noyes,” says
Amy Pollard, UR Medicine | Noyes Health President and CEO. “The E. Michael
Saunders Imaging Services department goes a long way in meeting our overall
goal of providing the health care our patients need as close as possible to
where they and their caregivers live and work.”
To make way for the equipment and additional exam and
treatment rooms, Noyes Physical and Sports Therapy will move into newly created
space in the Brae Burn building, directly behind the hospital on Red Jacket
Street in Dansville. The new space will feature a street-front entrance and
parking, allowing for more convenient access for clients, especially those with
mobility challenges, and have a less clinical feel than the previous hospital
space. The construction of the expanded imaging department and new, updated
equipment, along with the build out of the new physical therapy space, will
cost approximately $4 million.
