ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – UR Medicine has conducted 400 heart transplants since the life-saving procedures began there in 2001. 48-year-old Shane Pitts is just two weeks removed from receiving his own new heart. “I’m very thankful to be here 14 days later,” he said. In 2020, Pitts collapsed on a basketball court. It was then that he knew something was wrong. At first, doctors recommended he receive an ICD, but later, his condition started to decline. “It was news we weren’t ready for.