At Rochester Regional Health, we’re not waiting for innovation to happen—we’re building it from the inside out. While others publish white papers, we deliver change where it matters most: at the bedside, in the clinic, and in the lives of our patients and caregivers with physicians at the helm.
We’re not a research lab or academic ivory tower—we’re a fully integrated health system delivering care across a wide and uniquely varied region. From Western New York to the Finger Lakes, up through the St. Lawrence Region, our teams work in urban hospitals, small-town clinics, and rural outreach centers—proving that innovation isn’t limited to ZIP codes. It thrives wherever people like you are ready to reimagine care.
One of our most forward-thinking initiatives is our workforce innovation strategy, built on a simple but powerful idea: opportunity begins at home. Inspired by conversations between CEO Chip Davis and entrepreneur Tom Golisano, we’re creating early-career pathways in healthcare that start in high school. We’re transforming underutilized spaces into training hubs and launching programs that help students step directly into meaningful careers—caring for the same communities they call home.
We believe innovation doesn’t just happen in academic centers—it happens on the front lines.
As our Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Eslinger put it: “Our ability to make innovation real, not theoretical, is what allows us to lead meaningful change with speed and heart.”
We’re backing that belief with real infrastructure. Our partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology connects us with a powerful pipeline of engineers, technologists, and creative problem-solvers. We’re launching clinical innovation incubators—spaces where frontline care teams and community partners co-create smarter systems, tools, and workflows. And on the horizon? A large-scale data and discovery platform that will unlock entirely new frontiers in predictive medicine and population health—opening the door to unprecedented research potential across every corner of our system to benefit you and how you deliver care.
This region is built for reinvention. Our legacy was shaped by companies like Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch + Lomb—organizations that didn’t just manufacture goods but cultivated a workforce fluent in engineering, systems thinking, and applied innovation. That foundation still fuels the way we move, solve, and build. Health care deserves a seat on New York’s Innovation Super Highway, and we intend to lead that effort with purpose.
We’re not waiting for peer review. We’re building something more grounded, more collaborative, and more urgent: a clinician-led innovation ecosystem that moves with speed, purpose, and humanity.
If you’re a physician who wants to grow, who sees the need for better systems, and who’s ready to help shape what’s next—this is where you belong.
We’re delivering the future of health care, and empowering physicians to lead the way. And we’re here for it. Are you?
