Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH) is an 886-bed medical facility, part of the

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complex, in

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, United States. Opened in 1926, it is a major provider of both in-patient and out-patient medical services. Attached to Strong is the 190-bed Golisano Children's Hospital, which serves infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21. SMH is owned and operated by the

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and serves as its primary teaching hospital. It offers programs toward

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, dental, or graduate degrees through the

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. The hospital anchors the University's health care delivery network in the Rochester area and serves as a primary community hospital and a regional trauma center for the Rochester area.

Human experimentation

From 1945 to 1947, Strong was the site of

non-consensual human experimentation Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics. Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and tort ...

programs under supervision of the

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and its successor, the

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. A building adjacent to the hospital and connected to it via tunnel, dubbed the "Manhattan Annex," was constructed in 1943 as a field office for the Manhattan Project. Over a period of two years starting in 1945, a total of seventeen patients admitted to Strong for unrelated ailments were injected with a

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solution without their knowledge. The Atomic Energy Commission tracked the patients for the rest of their lives; after their deaths, the Commission exhumed their remains for testing. Surviving patients were later informed of the true nature of the experiments in 1974.

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External links

Strong Memorial Hospital WebsiteURMC Website
{{Authority control Hospital buildings completed in 1926 University of Rochester Hospitals established in 1926 Hospitals in Rochester, New York 1926 establishments in New York (state) Trauma centers

Human experimentation

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