Nursing home, Girl Scouts team up
Residents of Pine Valley, a nursing home in Spring Valley, teamed up with a Girl Scout troop in Rockland to make paper heart for the Ronald McDonald House at the “Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at...
View ArticleNew medical chief at St. John’s Riverside
St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers has selected Dr. Paul Antonecchia to serve as the hospital’s new vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer. Antonecchia holds a medical...
View ArticleSTDs are focus of health day
An all-day, multi-county event tomorrow seeks to educate mothers, fathers and anyone who might plan to have children, about sexually-transmitted diseases. The Lower Hudson Valley Perinatal Network...
View ArticleLyme disease center opens for season
The Lyme Disease Practice of New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center will open its walk-in center June 2nd for people who need evaluation and treatment. During June, July and August,...
View ArticleWestchester Medical Center recognized
Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla has been named a 2008/2009 Consumer Choice Award winner for overall quality and image by the people in the New York metropolitan area, in a survey conducted by...
View ArticleGood Samaritan, Westchester Medical score well in heart surgery
Good Samaritan Hospital’s cardiac bypass surgery program scored well in a survey by a private group that rates hospitals and the procedures they perform. The Suffern hospital earned a five-star...
View ArticleFormer FDA head at prenatal health conference
The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration will be the featured speaker at a forum next week on the role of maternal obesity in the health of newborns. Dr. David Kessler  will speak...
View ArticleWestchester Medical Center’s response to hospital billing story
By the time Westchester Medical Center got back to my colleagues for their story today about how different hospitals charge wildly different rates for the same procedure, it was too late to include...
View ArticleWestchester Med. Center, Northern Westchester, St. John’s, Montefiore score...
Many hospitals that serve residents of the Lower Hudson Valley have been named to the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals survey. Westchester Medical Center was highly ranked in other...
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Sen. Carlucci pushes controversial Lyme disease legislation
A Rockland lawmaker is promoting a measure to force insurance companies to pay for controversial treatments sometimes used for Lyme disease. Senator David Carlucci, D-New City, gathered proponents of...
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