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Downtown Buffalo's medical campus grabs most of the health care attention locally, but a vibrant suburban medical corridor has emerged around Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Amherst.
The Kaleida Health hospital, the center of medical care in Amherst and surrounding communities, has generated substantial ancillary medical development.
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Pediatric emergency services now available at hospital
Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Amherst has begun providing pediatric emergency services with specialized medical personnel from Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
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Dorothy A. McGowan, widow State Supreme Court Justice Thomas F. McGowan and active community volunteer, died Saturday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst. She was 82.
Born Dorothy Rowe in St. Louis, she moved to Buffalo with her family when she was still a child. She was a 1946 graduate of Nardin Academy and earned a bachelor's degree in history from D'Youville College in 1950.
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Edward S. Wiater of Amherst, a former North Tonawanda mayor and lifelong journalist, died Monday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst. He was 85.
Born in Dunkirk, Mr. Wiater moved to North Tonawanda with his family when he was a child. After graduating in 1944 from North Tonawanda High School, where he was a standout athlete, he was drafted into the Army to serve in World War II.
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Frank J. Cirincione, a two-time Legionnaire of the Year and World War II veteran, died last Friday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst, after a brief illness. He was 89.
Mr. Cirincione, a Town of Tonawanda resident, was born in Buffalo, served as a paperboy for The Buffalo Evening News in the Allentown neighborhood and went on to graduate from Technical High School in 1939.
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A Cheektowaga medical management and billing business received more than $530,000 in tax breaks Friday from the Amherst Industrial Development Agency so it can move into a new building in the Bryant Woods office park.
Professional Emergency Services, which provides back office and billing services for medical firms, including the emergency rooms at Millard Fillmore and Millard Fillmore Suburban hospitals, will more than double its space through the $3.4 million project.
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After suffering a heart attack nearly six weeks ago, Ronald L. Kelsey of Amherst is expressing a lot of gratitude to the emergency room doctors at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, who saved him from the brink.
Kelsey's heartfelt appreciation was on display Tuesday when he and his family invited those doctors and other hospital staff to join in a celebration of his 60th birthday in the basement boardroom of the Maple Road medical facility in Amherst.
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Robert H. Schintzius, a sales manager for a medical company and a youth sports administrator, died Tuesday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst. He was 85.
Mr. Schintzius, of Williamsville, was born in Buffalo and graduated from Fosdick Masten Park High School in 1943. He then enlisted in the Army, serving as a ranger in the 1272nd Combat Engineer Battalion, which participated in the Normandy and Central Europe campaigns in World War II.
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Two Buffalo hospitals -- Buffalo General and Millard Fillmore Gates Circle -- performed well enough to earn a listing among the 24 "safest" medical centers in an annual statewide report card on hospital quality.
One other area hospital -- Millard Fillmore Suburban -- landed on the report card's "watch list," which is for facilities with the highest proportion of below-average ratings on more than two dozen mortality and patient safety measures.
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William A. Wutz III, who served as Williamsville's deputy mayor during his two terms as village trustee, died Friday in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst, after a brief illness. He was 71.
Mr. Wutz was unopposed when he was elected to the Village Board in 1995 and 1999 on the Harmony Party ticket. He served until he was defeated in his bid for a third four-year term in 2003.