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New York state Senator David Carlucci, who recently received the LiveOnNY Legislative Champion Award for his outstanding efforts to pass Lauren's Law, was in attendance. Organ donations in NYS have increased from 21% to 36% since the legislative enactment of Lauren's Law in 2012. During a daylong enrollment event at Montefiore Nyack, 32 people were enrolled by LiveOnNY to join the organ donor registry. Overall statewide, 2,500 organ donors were registered, bringing the five-year annual event total to more than 16,000 reg - istered organ donors. Anyone who missed enrollment day but still would like to become an organ or tissue donor can register online at Registerme.org/EnrollmentDay. (L–R) NYS Senator David Carlucci; Lizbeth Waddell, Director of Hospital Services at LiveOnNY; Mark Geller, MD, President and CEO Montefiore Nyack Hospital; and Rozanne Watson, transplant recipient and advocate William M. Mooney Jr., President and CEO, Westchester County Association; Jeffrey Menkes, President and CEO, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital; Lindsy Parrott, Executive Director and Curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass; and Thomas Roach, Mayor, City of White Plains The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass is taking its treasures on the road to help patients. The Neustadt recently opened a three-month exhibition in the lobby of Burke Rehabilitation Hospital's White Plains campus (785 Mamaroneck Ave.). Four lamps, made more than a century ago by the New York tastemaker Louis Comfort Tiffany, are on view for the hundreds of patients, guests and staff who pass through every day. This new exhibition, Louis Comfort Tiffany's Shade Garden, features opalescent glass lamps with motifs including daffodils, apple blos - soms, peonies and pond lilies. It is the first major display of Tiffany's works in Westchester County. Prior to coming to Burke, the lamps were shown at the Montefiore Hutchinson Campus in the Bronx from June to October. This exhibition program is made possible through the gener - ous support of The Fine Art Program and Collection at Montefiore Einstein, Bronx; Simone Healthcare Development, Bronx; and H. Guy Leibler, President of Simone Healthcare Development and Neustadt Trustee. Northern Westchester Hospital has been awarded Gold Certification for Excellence in Person-Centered Care by Planetree International, recognizing the hospital's achievement and innovation in the delivery of person-centered care. Northern Westchester is one of only 90 healthcare organizations worldwide to receive the Person-Centered Care Gold Certification since the program's launch in 2007, and the only organization to earn the award five times. Gold Certification for Excellence in Person-Centered Care repre - sents the highest level of achievement in person-centered care, based on evidence and standards. Person-centered healthcare prioritizes the active participation of patients and their families throughout the health - care process with an emphasis on partnership, compassion, transpar- ency, inclusion and quality. Putnam Hospital Center earned the distinction of an "A" grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit focused on improving health- care quality, safety and transparency. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses national performance measures from CMS, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and other supple - mental data sources. Taken together, those performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital's overall perfor- mance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. The Safety Grade includes 28 measures, all currently in use by national measurement and reporting programs. Of the 2,633 graded, Putnam Hospital Center was among 878 hos - pitals in the nation that earned an "A" rating. Leapfrog assigned A to F grades to acute-care hospitals based on their ability to prevent errors, accidents, injuries, infections and other harm to patients. NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Division celebrated 125 years of providing mental health care. On October 25, NewYork‑Presbyterian Westchester Division in White Plains celebrat - ed 125 years of providing comprehen- sive, compassionate mental health care, and adopted a new name for its Westchester campus to reflect its expanded role in behavioral health: NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center. Since opening its doors in 1894, the newly named NewYork- Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center has been at the forefront of the movement known as moral treatment, with Weill Cornell Medicine psychiatrists providing patient-centered care in facili - ties specifically designed to offer the tranquility and activities required for mental health healing. The movement also focused on treating patients with dignity, compassion and respect. Today, NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital's psychiatry specialty is ranked among the top five in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. 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 0 2 0 2 1