Care That Saves Lives
At the Sands-Constellation Heart & Vascular Institute at Rochester Regional Health, we are inspired every day by our patients and their journeys.
Heart problems had run in Robert Osborne's family and at the age of 54, he almost lost his life due to heart failure. Watch how the team at the Sands-Constellation Heart & Vascular Institute helped him on his journey back to health.
After ten years of fertility treatments, Jennifer was finally pregnant. After delivering a healthy baby, she experienced complications that put her in a fight for her life. Dr. Scott Feitell, Director of Heart Failure, placed Jennifer on ECMO to help save her life.
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Gordon, 61, suffered his cardiac arrest at work last June and was rushed unconscious to Unity, where his heart was restarted, but he remained unresponsive.


Thirty-eight year old Kate Hall of Newark woke up with pain in her chest. The busy mother of five was concerned, but not too worried, so she asked her husband Jon to drive her to her provider's office for a quick checkup.