Welcome LETTER
Community caring AS THE ONLY REGIONAL RESOURCE FOR ADvanced care in the Hudson Valley, Westchester Medical Center partners with many community hospitals and physicians in the area, and we are constantly working to build upon and strengthen these relationships. For example, starting just last month, Westchester Medical Center’s perinatal specialists (also known as perinatologists) began providing services at two local hospitals—Orange Regional Medical Center and Hudson Valley Hospital Center. Perinatologists specialize in caring for women with high-risk pregnancies. These hospitals identified a need for this specialty in their communities, and we are pleased to be able to work with their fine obstetricians to provide this service to expectant mothers closer to home. Partnering with area organizations so that specialty services are available in the communities we serve is critical, but we remain equally committed to having the finest staff and facilities available to those who need to come to Westchester Medical Center. Over the past few years, the number of patients transferred to the medical center from local community hospitals has grown to more than 600 each month. Whether patients are transferred by medevac helicopter or critical care ground transport, they can rely on us for lifesaving care. Some of these “countless lives” are the stars of our latest advertising campaign, which focuses on the amazing stories of real people whose lives have been changed by Westchester Medical Center. A retired teacher who was given an 8 percent chance to live before his heart transplant, a high school student with leukemia, a teenager who went through emergency neurosurgery—these are just a few of the people you will meet through the campaign and at a new website: www.CountlessLives.com. I guarantee the stories will inspire you as they have inspired us.
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MICHAEL D. ISRAEL President and CEO Westchester Medical Center
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9/17/09 9:47:59 AM