About Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health was built as an all-inclusive health care delivery system able to provide for and manage patients' health care needs over time, regardless of the setting. This requires a full palate of services from traditional acute and institutional care, to new community-based services such as home health care, housing, transportation and more. Integration of our services improved convenience for our patients but and reflects our commitment to deliver high-quality and cost-effective care.

The pathway to lasting, positive change is paved with partnership between patients, physicians, institutions, employees, insurers and the community. To this end, RRHS has established a structure in which physicians, health care administrators and payers share an equal voice, crafting solutions that align our patient care goals with sound financial incentives. This unique brand of partnership has attracted over 1,000 physicians to participate in RRHS managed care initiatives.

The RRHS Plan, a partnership between RRHS and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of the Rochester Area, represents just one example of what can be accomplished when partnership is a prerequisite.

In 1993, two friendly competitors Rochester Health Care, Inc. and TGH Health System announced that they were considering the formation of a single, multi-hospital corporation. Both organizations believed that the key to reforming the community’s health care system lies in the development of an integrated delivery system. A feasibility study validated the reasons for and the advantages of affiliation and after review by the Federal Trade Commission, the Greater Rochester Health System was formed on Dec. 1, 1994, marking the first multi-hospital health care system in Rochester.

The list of affiliates included: The Genesee, Rochester General and Newark-Wayne Community Hospitals, the Rochester Mental Health Center, and long-term care affiliates Hill Haven and Independent Living for Seniors. A new affiliate, the Continuing Care Network, was created to oversee the System’s long-term care programs and to serve as a catalyst for managed care activities.