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in the news WMC Honors Three Leaders at Gala
Pictured L-R , Jeff Zink, Board Member, maria fareri Children’s Hospital Foundation; Janelle Hraiki, Executive Director, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital Foundation; students and LEO members Maggie Cole, Van Vourliotis, Theresa Marriott; Michael Gewitz, M.D., Physician-in-Chief, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital; and LEOS Advisor Debbie Costello.
A Roar of Gratitude to the LEOS Students from the Hendrick Hudson LEOS Club, a schoolaffiliated community service youth organization sponsored by the Hendrick Hudson Lions Club, presented a $30,000 check to Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital. The club raised the money during the past year through fundraising events including a Stay-Awake-A-Thon which was held in May at Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose.
Biathlon Benefits Trauma Center at WMC More than 400 athletes gathered on June 28 for the 8th Annual Westchester Medical Center Biathlon. This year’s event, which took place on the beautiful Medical Center campus and included a two mile run, a 15-mile bike and another two mile run, raised just over $50,000 for the Regional Trauma Center at Westchester Medical Center. Top awards for Overall Male and Overall Female went to Artour Samsonov and Amy Bevilacqua.
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On June 6, Westchester Medical Center recognized three outstanding individuals at our 30th Annual Gala: Patricia Sheiner, Former Westchester Medical Center patients M.D., FRCS(C), and their families joined more than 700 guests at the 30th Annual Gala. FACS, Director of Liver Transplant and Hapatobiliary Surgery at WMC; Paul Woolf, M.D., Associate Director of Pediatric Cardiology at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital and Director of Graduate Medical Education at WMC; and Lawrence S. Schwartz, Secretary to New York State Governor David Paterson. The event benefits a Transplant Resource Center and an Education Resource Center at Westchester Medical Center, as well as the Westchester Medical Center Foundation. Assisting with the presentation of the awards to the honorees were former patients of Westchester Medical Center or Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital whose lives were forever changed by the treatment they received.
WMC Nurses Take Learning to a Higher Level Nurses from every specialty throughout Westchester Medical Center regularly take on the role of educator to their colleagues and nurses throughout the Eileen Farrington, RN, NP; Joan Madalone, RN, NP; WMC Chief Nursing Officer Hudson Valley region. Laura Caramanica, RN, Ph.D.; and Mary Recently, two Nurse McKiernan, RN, Vice President for Nursing Practitioners took the role of educator a step further and offered their expertise and clinical research on a national stage. Joan Madalone, R.N., N.P., and Eileen Farrington, R.N., N.P., presented posters on evidence-based clinical research projects that originated at Westchester Medical Center out of needs they saw within the hospital. Joan researched and developed positive training practices to significantly decrease central venous catheter infections. Eileen’s work revolved around improving the early identification and treatment of sepsis. These two talented nurse educators, as well as nearly 50 other projects, were featured during continuing education poster sessions during Westchester Medical Center’s National Nurse Recognition Week in early May.
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