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parking lot at St. Anthony Community Hospital. They also have helped fund Grandparents Day at Schervier Pavilion and air conditioning installation and resident room renovations at Mount Alverno Center. The classic offers something for everyone: golf, tennis, dining and joining together to support the health of our community. Attendees will play an 18-hole golf scramble or a round-robin tennis event. The day concludes with a reception. The Hole-In-One prize is a new Ford, courtesy of Leo Kaytes Ford. Curr y Automotive's Subaru dealerships and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Connecticut, Westchester and Hudson Valley selected NewYork- Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital as a recipient of Subaru's Love Promise campaign for the second year in a row. The nationwide campaign invited Subaru customers in June to write a "care card," a note of hope and inspiration, to be tucked in a package for cancer patients that includes a blanket. Blankets and cards were delivered to the lobby of NewYork- Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital's Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and were given to patients receiving chemotherapy and radiation oncology in the center. The donation also included lunchboxes with crayons and craft items for children who ac - companied their loved ones. Westchester Medical Center and Empire BlueCross BlueShield recently announced that Empire BlueCross BlueShield reached a tentative multiyear agreement with HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, which operates the hospitals on Broadway and Mary's Avenue in midtown Kingston. HealthAlliance is rejoining Empire's networks as a participating pro - vider, effective Sept. 1, 2017. Covered services provided by the hospitals to Empire members will resume on an in-network basis. For the more than 500,000 premature babies born in the U.S. each year, human touch can have a power ful impact on healthy grow th and development. To ensure that all babies — including those who are the most vulnerable — get the hugs they need to thrive, the Huggies No Baby Unhugged program awarded seven $10,000 grants to hospitals across the countr y, including Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, to help suppor t or establish volun - teer hugging programs. These programs provide much-needed physical human interaction for newborns in neonatal intensive care units that can help make their transition from hospital to home quicker. Maria Fareri Children's Hospital will use the grant in a variety of ways, such as investing in volunteer training and recruitment, hugger chairs, and educational materials for volunteers and patient families. The Emergency Depar tment nursing team and a veteran trauma surgeon at the Level II trauma center of MidHudson Regional Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), were recently recognized for extraordi - nar y medical excellence by the Dutchess County Emergency Medical Ser vices (EMS) Council. The honors came two months after MidHudson Regional Hospital passed a rigorous, peer-review process by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), which verified the hospital's George T. Whalen Family Trauma Center with Level II status. This is significant as New York state now uses only the ACS verification program as its standard to designate trauma centers. MidHudson Regional in Poughkeepsie was the first and remains the only hospital between New York City and Albany to earn ACS Level II designation and joins fellow WMCHealth members Westchester Medical Center (Level I adult) and Maria Fareri Children's Hospital (Level I pediatric) with ACS verification. ■ From left, Helen Connor, Patient Care Technician; Amanda Long, RN; Elyse Marlow, RN; T.J. Oltz, RN (back); Sharon Frazier, EMS Coordinator (front, in red), and Stacy Fell, RN, of MidHudson Regional Hospital's Emergency Department, along with trauma surgeon Zubair Zoha, MD; and Emergency Department Medical Director Mark Papish, MD, stand at the Union Vale Fire Department and Rescue Squad Station No. 1 in Verbank. From left, Karen Erickson, Director, Pharmacy, and Interim Director, Oncology Services, NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital's Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center; Eileen Peterson, BSN, RN, OCN, Assistant Clinical Nurse Manager, Cancer Center; A. Bonnie Corbett, the hospital's Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President, Patient Services; Lawrence Koutcher, MD, radiation oncologist, Cancer Center; Maryann Torres, Curry Automotive; Brad R. Candullo, General Manager, Curry Automotive; Stacey Petrower, President, NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital; and Martin Oster, MD, oncologist, ColumbiaDoctors and NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Hudson Valley 2 1 M D N E W S . C O M /// M D N E W S L O W E R H U D S O N / B R O N X ■ 2 017