Overview

Since 2011, we have been providing high-quality, excellent minimally invasive care to thousands of members of our community and beyond. We recognize the importance of providing high-quality and safe care that is patient centric and convenient.

Our patients love to see the same team members greet them at the door, bring them back to have a procedure, recover them, and discharge them safely. In addition, there is a comforting feeling and sense of security by having your procedures done in the same facility as your office appointments. We always check on our patients before, during, and after the procedure to make sure they are doing well. Our patients are given clear instructions before their procedure from our surgeons and nurses with multiple follow up calls to ensure they are properly prepared and educated for their procedure. This kind of patient centered care is what differentiates us from other busy practices where the patients' needs are often not at the forefront of care.

As our name suggests, we sincerely care about our patients having the best possible care that can easily be accessed. We accomplish this by hand picking the most talented nurses, building a team with over a decade of outpatient experience, and having a centralized location in Amherst that is an easy commute from anywhere in Buffalo with free parking. Stop in today and see why AccessCare is the best choice for your vascular needs.

In 2011, Dr. Sonya Noor and her medical team were approached by an outside company to work in an outpatient facility to provide minimally invasive, vascular procedures for patients outside of the hospital. At that time we worked predominantly out of Buffalo General Hospital and Gates Vascular Institute, however, Dr. Noor and her team were always looking for new and exciting ways to provide more convenient and efficient patient care. We took this offer to see if we could provide safe, high-quality, minimally invasive procedures for our patients.

Our first facility was located on 4600 Main St. and was called Buffalo Axcess Center. One of our dear friends, Patrick Story, was instrumental in this partnership and set up of the center. As the first outpatient facility in Buffalo, we slowly built our experience and developed a team specializing in providing high-quality, safe care in a warm inviting environment. As our reputation grew, we became busier and added more radiologists and vascular surgeons to work at the center.

Since then, we have moved into our own facility, now called Access Care, which is physician owned and managed, and patient centric. We are now located on 4960 Harlem Rd. with double the footprint we originally had. We offer a spacious, warm, clean environment for patients and their families to wait and our procedures are done in our state of the art facility with two procedure rooms, six holding areas, one-on-one nursing care, and the most experienced team in Buffalo. Our patients and staff love our new facility, as we continue to serve the community with the highest standards. We invite you to come visit us today!

The vascular system is made up of arteries and veins. The arteries bring oxygenated blood from the heart to the different parts of the body and the veins return the blood to the heart. As one ages the arteries build up plaque, and blockages of the artery can cause less blood flow to the target organ. 

Vascular surgeons will work on the blockages of arteries everywhere except the heart and the brain. Diseases like diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure all accelerate this process. Smoking and lack of exercise also accelerate blockages in the artery. When the blockages occur in the carotid artery they are known as carotid artery disease, when in the kidney arteries-renal artery disease, when in the legs-peripheral arterial disease. Treatment of arterial disease can include minimally invasive balloon angioplasty, stenting, atherectomy or traditional open bypass or sometimes a combination of both called a hybrid procedure.

Arteries can also grow in size and the wall can become weak and may become prone to rupture which is called aneurysmal disease. Vascular surgeons will treat aneurysms everywhere except around the heart, and in the brain. Aneurysmal disease quite often is asymptomatic, but can be silent killers and therefore are dangerous. Aneurysms can be treated with minimally invasive techniques with a covered stent, or traditional open technique with resection or hybrid procedures.

Venous disease can involve the deep vein system where a clot can form and this is called deep venous thrombosis. Vascular surgeons will treat the veins to remove clot via minimally invasive dissolving, or open surgical techniques. They will also stent a compressed vein to improve circulation and swelling.

Superficial venous disease involves the veins over distending and becoming leaky and are called varicose veins, which can cause pain, tiredness and bleeding and can also be treated with minimally invasive or traditional techniques.

To learn more about each disease state, and treatments AccessCare offers, click on the conditions or treatment tabs.