H ealth News Julie Snyder wins “Top Women in PR” Award
UBMD Internal Medicine has new CCO
Julie. R Snyder, senior vice president, chief marketing and communications officer for BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, has been recognized as one of the Top Women in Public Relations by PRNEWS as a 2019 honoree. Recognized for representing one of the most trusted brands in health care — BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York — Snyder’s award recognizes how she dedicates her time and talents to make the biggest impact for her company, her Julie R. Snyder colleagues and her community. PRNEWS serves the communications industry at all levels, including corporations, agencies and nonprofits. It annually selects and honors highly influential women who have made advances for their organizations in crisis management, brand reputation, content creation and more. Among many other accomplishments throughout her career are leading a best-in-class corporate giving program, including developing and launching BlueCross BlueShield’s Blue Fund, a health focused grant program; launching the region’s first health care thought leadership podcast; developing award- winning partnerships with the National Safety Council and Canalside Buffalo; and most recently co-founding BlueCross BlueShield’s Women’s Leadership Circle, a proactive approach to bring forward development opportunities for women at all levels of the Buffalo-based health plan. Snyder is a member of the company’s executive leadership team and also serves as chief of staff to BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York’s President and CEO David W. Anderson. A marketing and communications executive with nearly two decades of experience in the health care industry, Snyder is also actively involved as a board member for the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy; Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center; and Medaille College. Snyder has been a Junior League of Buffalo member for more than 30 years, receiving the league’s Susan Reid Green Russell Award in 2016 for leadership and organizational skills as well as commitment and involvement in the community. Snyder earned a bachelor’s degree in public communication from American University in Washington, D.C. Snyder previously served as executive director for the Sisters Hospital Foundation and as director of communications for the Buffalo Niagara Partnership.
Sanjay Chadha has recently joined UBMD Internal Medicine as its new chief operating officer. He most recently held the position of senior vice president of service line operations at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (NFMMC), where he had worked since 2010. Chadha has previousSanjay Chadha ly managed service lines in primary care and specialty services, including practice transformation for primary care. He has also managed other inpatient and outpatient operations, including hospitalist programs. Chadha has extensive experience in graduate medical education as well, having served as the designated institutional officer for the family medicine program at NFMMC. “Sanjay was highly recommended to us, and it was immediately apparent when we met that he has exactly the right background and experience to transform our operations in UBMD Internal Medicine,” said physician Anne Curtis, UBMD Internal Medicine president and chief executive officer. Chadha worked for Kaleida Health prior to NFMMC in the roles of vice president of business operations and vice president of ambulatory care and business development. Prior to Kaleida, he worked at ECMC as the vice president of ambulatory and transplant services, as well as assistant director of specialty clinical services. His experience with UBMD’s healthcare partners and his broad knowledge of inpatient and outpatient operations put him in an ideal position to develop a plan for growth and clinical collaboration with Great Lakes Health, according to a press release. Chadha earned a master’s degree in business administration and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s executive managing healthcare delivery program. He is a Leadership Buffalo graduate and received the “40 Under 40” award from Business First in 2004.
ECMC receives $10 million for new trauma and emergency facility Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation has recently been awarded $10 million from the New York State Department of Health’s Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program (SHCFTP) for the institution’s future Key Bank Trauma and Emergency Department.
The state program is designed to “improve patient care through the development of high-quality medical facilities and programs serving the inpatient, primary care, mental health, substance use disorder and long-term care needs of communities throughout the State.” ECMC broke ground on the $55 million facility in June 2018 and it is expected to be completed in May 2020. A combination of public funding, private funding, and hospital equity and financing is being utilized to complete the project. The facility is the designated mass casualty trauma center for Western New York. It nearly doubles facility square footage to 54,000 sq. ft.and will increase treatment space from 36 to 54 stations including four dedicated trauma rooms, two behavioral health safe rooms, two isolation rooms, and four medical resuscitation rooms. It features intradepartmental imaging consisting of two CT rooms and two X-ray rooms, direct access from the hospital’s rooftop helipad, and a care initiation zone to support an enhanced triage model of care. “ECMC is deeply appreciative to Gov. Cuomo, his administration and the NYS Department of Health for this very important funding, which will support the dedicated clinicians who everyday save lives in our Key Bank Trauma and Emergency Department and, of course, the tens of thousands of patients they serve annually,” said ECMCC President and CEO Thomas J. Quatroche Jr., Ph.D. “We are also very thankful for the strong support ECMC received from the members of our Western New York state legislative delegation, especially NYS Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and NYS Sen. Tim Kennedy. They made this critically important funding a priority of the delegation and they advocated tirelessly for ECMC. Our Great Lakes Health partners at Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo were equally important in reinforcing ECMC’s need for this level of funding to support our lifesaving care for all Western New Yorkers.”
Buffalo City Mission to raise $1M for new community center The Buffalo City Mission announced the launch of its Pick-aBrick Campaign, a dynamic fundraising initiative that will provide community individuals and organizations with a special opportunity to make a lasting legacy gift that will build a “Pathway to Hope” for the next century, leading to the completion of the organization’s new community center, the Alfiero Family Center of Hope and Promise. Through the Pick-a-Brick Campaign, donors can select and personalize their own brick that will be used to pave the Pathway to Hope, in front of the new community center. Gift levels include a Hope Brick (4 by 8 inches) for $400, and a Promise
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Brick (8 by 8 inches) for $750. Each purchased brick will be personalized and placed along the pathway to memorialize the generosity of the giving community. The City Mission has set a goal to raise over $1 million by the end of April 2020. “The Pick-a-Brick Campaign is a way for our community to make personalized and permanent contributions in our shared mission to help every neighbor in need,” said Stuart Harper, CEO and executive director of the Buffalo City Mission. “We are in the final stretch to complete our new community center this year, and — in every sense -— this campaign represents the power of coming together to help change lives for the poor and homeless in our city.” “On any given night, over 900 men, women and children are homeless and on the streets of Buffalo,” said Harper. “Through the final stages of our Next Century Capital Campaign, this Pick-a-Brick opportunity will help us to cross the finish line strong. The time to make a lasting impact together is now.”
Roswell Park head & neck cancer chairman honored Physician Wesley Hicks Jr., chairman of the department of head and neck, plastic and reconstructive surgery at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, has recently earned a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Weill Cornell Medical Center for his contributions to patient care. Hicks is only the third alumnus to receive this award from Weill Cornell. In awarding this distinction, the school highlighted Hicks’ leadership, dedication to education and impactful research. His research focuses include tissue engineering, wound healing and the mechanisms involved in wound repair. Hicks, who has co-authored more than 200 journal publications, has been on staff at Roswell Park since 1991, serving as chairman of his department since 2011. Hicks earned his medical degree from the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He completed residencies at Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Roswell Park designated as a ‘Cancer Center of Excellence’ Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has been designated as an Optum Cancer Center of Excellence (COE) for its pediatric and adult population. Optum and its Clinical Sciences Institute — a group of more than 100 practicing clinicians from across the country — develops the COE networks through a rigorous evaluation process.
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