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partners and through academic affiliation agreements with a number of colleges and universities: Fordham University, Mercy College, New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practice, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Puerto Rico. Through par - ticipating in LEND, trainees develop knowledge and skills to become leaders working with and on behalf of children with disabilities and other special healthcare needs, and their families, to improve health outcomes and decrease disparities. CEO Pat Tursi with Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center resident Stephanie and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano The St. Elizabeth Seton Children's Foundation hosted its annual Cherish the Child Luncheon at Bronxville Field Club. More than 200 guests joined — dressed to the theme in their Derby best — and over $95,000 was raised. That made it our most successful spring fundraiser to date! Mark Apfelbaum, MD, gives a hands-on tutorial of a simulated cardiac cath procedure to students from the Archbishop Stepinac High School Honors Academy program. More than 200 high school students and parents visited Archbishop Stepinac High School for the fourth annual Careers in Medicine event hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital. Students from public and private high schools throughout Westchester gained hands-on experience and the opportu - nity to meet over 50 physicians and clinicians from various specialties and areas in health care, including cardiac, OB/GYN, pediatrics, emergency medicine, orthopedics, surgery and pharmacy. Students learned to intubate and suture mannequins, scope a knee under the guidance of an orthopedic surgeon, and use laparoscopic instruments as if they were performing an actual surgery. The event was created in 2015 by Matilda M. Taddeo, MD, an internal medicine and cardiology specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Westchester, and Susan Campanile, MD, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and an internal medicine physician with NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, to share their love of medicine and give back to the community. Montefiore Nyack Hospital celebrates the opening of a new Transitional Care Unit. Montefiore Nyack Hospital recently celebrated the opening of a new Transitional Care Unit (TCU), which provides care to patients who are transitioning from an acute hospital stay to a safe return home or a skilled nursing facility. The unit has 16 private rooms, each with its own bathroom, in a comfortable setting that offers amenities such as a grooming salon, country dining room, recreation room, and state-of-the-art medical equipment and therapy gym. Patients do not need to leave the hospital to receive comprehensive rehabilitation treatment, and the unit is monitored with 24-hour nursing coverage and on-site physicians. Patients who may benefit from rehabilitation in the TCU include those who are recovering from hip or knee replacement surgery, fractures, other orthopedic conditions, flare-up of chronic illness, or those who are medically deconditioned due to surgery, injury or other complications. Barbara Binder; Shalom Kalnicki, MD; Norman Rosen, MD; Ron J. Corti; Ulrich Hermanto, MD; Jeffrey Short; Rebekah Branco Montefiore Health System, in partnership with St. John's Riverside Hospital, recently cut the ribbon on Montefiore Yonkers Radiation Oncology, a new radiation therapy cancer center. A construction rendering of what the new White Plains Hospital outpatient center for advanced medicine and surgery will look like White Plains Hospital (WPH) broke ground on a pivotal addition to its campus, a 252,000-square- foot, nine-story outpatient center for advanced medicine and surgery, located at the corner of Maple and Longview avenues, adjacent and connected to both the main Hospital and the Center for Cancer Care. The announce - ment was made at the groundbreaking at the site. The facility is one of the most significant additions to the Hospital's ongoing campus transformation, which has also included extensive campus modernization and renovation, such as the expanded Center for Cancer Care, completed in 2016, and the Hospital's new lobby and inpatient tower, completed in 2015. Since 2015, approximate - ly 475,000 square feet have been renovated or added to the Hospital. The new project is estimated to cost $272 million. The advanced center will house new operating rooms, endoscopy suites, cutting-edge imaging, wound care delivered through hyper - baric chambers and specialty physician practices including orthope- dics, spine, maternal-fetal medicine, neurosurgery, and a Heart and Vascular Center. The facility will also be a job creator for the county. In 2018, WPH supported 6,264 jobs through a combination of direct employment (3,034) at the Hospital and its satellites and indirect job creation (3,230) for supply and equipment vendors, contractors, laborers and in local businesses that support the Hospital's workforce and visitors. The new project is expected to bring 9% growth in new jobs over the four-year period. In the city of White Plains in 2018, WPH supported or sustained 2,605 jobs, accounting for one in every 36 jobs within the city, either directly or indirectly. By the end of construction, the impact on the city is projected to be 2,869 jobs, of which 441 will be attributed to the new center. n 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 ■ 2 019 2 1

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