Erie County Medical Center

Erie County Medical Center is a hospital with 550 beds located in the East Side of Buffalo, New York and a member of the Great Lakes Health System. It is the primary teaching hospital for the University at Buffalo.HistoryErie County Medical Center was formed in 1912 when the nearby Municipal Hospital on East Ferry Street had become overcrowded due to outbreaks in scarlet fever and tuberculosis and opened in 1918. Three years later, ECMC opened its first medical library, and later a social services department. The hospital would be named for Dr. Edward J. Meyer, its first chairman, in 1939. The current hospital facility would be opened in 1978 and was renamed Erie County Medical Center. In 1989, it would open its burn treatment center.Care and servicesECMC is designated as Western New York's designated trauma and HIV/AIDS treatment center. It also features the Roger W. Seibel Burn Treatment Center, which is the regional burn center for Western New York. Buffalo Public Schools' P.S. 84 (Health Care Center for Children @ ECMC), the designated school in the district for students with severe disabilities/illnesses, is housed at ECMC.Healthgrades ratings: mortality rates for medical proceduresHealthgrades is a United States based company that provides information about physicians, hospitals and health care providers. According to Healthgrades, which indicates it based its results on Medicare/Medicaid data, ECMC has higher than expected deaths in procedures where mortality is usually very low and higher than expected deaths following a serious complication after surgery.