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Albany Medical Center

43 New Scotland Avenue
518-262-3125


Mission

As an academic health sciences center, Albany Medical Center has a mission of providing excellence in medical education, biomedical research, and patient care.

Albany Medical Center has a responsibility to:

-Educate medical students, physicians, biomedical students, and other health care professionals in order to meet the future health care needs of the region and nation;

-Foster biomedical research that leads to scientific advances and the improvement of the health of the public; and

-Provide a broad range of patient services to the people of Eastern New York and Western New England, including illness-prevention programs, comprehensive care, and the highly complex care associated with academic medical centers

The mission will be achieved through commitment to the values of Quality, Excellence, Services, Collaboration, Compassion, Integrity, and Fiscal Responsibility.

Vision

We at Albany Medical Center will continue to develop as a nationally recognized academic health science center. In collaboration with the community, we will provide excellence in education, research, and patient care programs.

Our vision for the future includes a commitment to working with other providers to make comprehensive and advanced clinical services available to the public while emphasizing quality and service. We will be a leader in developing an innovative health care delivery system and educational consortium that respond to the needs of the community.

Albany Medical Center will sustain a working and learning environment that fosters teamwork and commitment to share values and goals. Through sound fiscal management, the Medical Center will be able to enhance its teaching and research programs to be on the forefront of medical knowledge and innovative patient care.


About Us

Albany Medical Center is the only academic health sciences center in the 25 counties of eastern New York and western New England. The Medical Center incorporates the 631-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital, one of upstate New York's largest teaching hospitals; the Albany Medical College, which was founded in 1839 as one of the nation's first private medical schools; the Albany Medical Center Faculty Group Practice, staffed by hundreds of full-time clinical faculty members of the Medical College; and the Albany Medical Center Foundation, Inc., one of the largest fund-raising organizations in the region

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