Exterior photo of the GVI and Buffalo General Medical Center

Inspiring the brightest minds and the latest treatments

A block away from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, tomorrow’s healers come together with today’s most accomplished healthcare providers to provide leading-edge care at Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute (BGMC/GVI).

As Kaleida Health’s largest facility, BGMC/GVI holds a central presence on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the region’s health hub for research, innovation, teaching and care.

BGMC/GVI is a comprehensive acute medical center with many specialized programs, including high level emergency care. GVI was added in 2010 to provide an even greater focus on heart, vascular and neurological care.

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About Buffalo General Medical Center

Buffalo General Medical Center is a comprehensive acute care medical center located in downtown Buffalo. The hospital is home to many of the region's leading programs, including cardiovascular, general surgery (including robotics), weight management/bariatric surgery, advanced therapeutic endoscopy, orthopedics, urology, rehabilitation medicine and more. The medical center, founded in 1855, has a long history of providing excellent patient care, clinical education, and leading-edge research.

Ranked #1 Best Hospital in the Buffalo metro area by U.S. News & World Report for multiple years running, some of the most innovative medicine in the country is being practiced at BGMC, with a focus on providing the highest quality care and the best possible outcomes to patients across eight counties of Western New York.

About Gates Vascular Institute

BGMC/GVI surgeons and support staff in operating room

There aren’t many places where a world-renowned structural heart surgeon and world-renowned brain surgeon regularly chat over lunch.

But at Gates Vascular Institute (GVI) — Kaleida Health’s hub for heart, vein & brain care — it’s the norm.

At GVI, relationships are built over group lunches and pre-dawn coffee in a communal space called the fishbowl — a specifically designed for collaboration and collisions.

These relationships grow in the procedure rooms, where doctors consult on each other’s cases daily.

That’s a game-changer for the patients of WNY.

Why? Because at GVI, 1+1=3

Expert physicians who are regularly in the same room share ideas. (And GVI has dozens of expert physicians.) Whether they’re working on hearts, veins or brains, these ideas result in smarter, more innovative ways to care for patients.

It’s exactly how the work of Buffalo’s Dr. Nick Hopkins resulted in revolutionary discoveries in stroke care — discoveries that are now the gold standard for stroke treatment around the world. It’s also why Dr. Hopkins drove the creation of GVI 15 years ago as a critical add-on to Buffalo General Medical Center: to continue the cycle of next-level collisions and collaboration.

Today, world-leading physicians are drawn to this special place to drive more clinical breakthroughs...and patients are drawn here to get the best possible care.