Celebrity Bartender Happy Hour to Benefit Friends of Strong

Join Friends of Strong—along with Emcee Mike Leonard—for a Celebrity Bartender Happy Hour supporting their work providing much-needed equipment and friendly volunteer faces who foster a happier healing environment for all of our patients and families.

Hospital Gift Shop to Close, Reopen Under New Management

The Friends of Strong Gift Shop will transition its operations to a retail company that specializes in hospital gift shop management nationally—bringing expanded services, longer operating hours and more merchandise selection to Strong Memorial Hospital’s gift shop customers.

Seeking Secret Santas for Strong's Baby Love Program

Departments, teams and individuals throughout the University of Rochester and Strong Memorial Hospital generously step up each year to help make a difference for young families enrolled in the Baby Love program coordinated through our Social Work and Patient and Family Services Division. We invite you to join us in contributing to this meaningful cause this holiday season.

Summer BBQ Fundraiser to Support Patient-Care Initiatives at Strong

In collaboration with Spencerport's Texas Bar-B-Q Joint restaurant, we're hosting our very first Summer BBQ Fundraiser in support of patient- and family-centered care at Strong Memorial Hospital. The event features chicken barbeque meals packaged to-go by some of URMC’s very own celebrity “Pit Masters” and promises to be a fun and delicious way to take care of dinner while supporting a great cause.

Thank YOU for Another Successful Coat Drive

Over the past several months, Friends of Strong, together with the Hospital’s Emergency Department, the Department of Pediatrics, Advantage Federal Credit Union—and many of you—accomplished another successful winter coat drive for patients in need.