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The Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS), made up of Catskill Regional Medical Center and Orange Regional Medical Center, is proud to announce recognition from the 31st Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards and the Aster Awards. The competitions, judged by a national panel, award healthcare organizations that showcase exemplary quality, creativity and message effectiveness in the areas of market - ing and public relations. This year, Orange Regional Medical Center and Catskill Regional Medical Center were acknowledged with several awards, marking another successful year for the hospitals and the work of the Marketing and Public Relations Department. Mount Sinai Health System and Crystal Run Healthcare announce the establishment of the Mount Sinai-Crystal Run Alliance for Healthcare Transformation. The alliance is a partnership between Mount Sinai and Crystal Run in which the participants will share and implement best practices, invest and share financial and intellectual resources, strengthen provider networks, and employ innovative approaches to the creation of healthcare value — all to further the "Triple Aim" of Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Cost. While Crystal Run Healthcare, a dynamic multispecialty group medical practice, will remain an independent and physician-owned/physician-led partnership, Mount Sinai and Crystal Run will seek op - portunities for clinical and financial integra- tion for the benefit of the communities and patients they serve. Vassar Brothers Medical Center and Northern Dutchess Hospital are participating in a project to save the lives of women faced with severe complications during pregnancy and childbirth. The two Health Quest-affiliated hospi - tals are collaborating with the New York State District of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on the Safe Motherhood Initiative. Through the Safe Motherhood Initiative, the teams at Vassar Brothers and Northern Dutchess are actively working together to focus on implementing standard approaches for handling New York's three leading causes of maternal death: obstetric hemorrhage, venous thromboembolism and severe hyper - tension in pregnancy. To learn more, visit www.health-quest.org, www.acogny.org or www.merckformothers.com. On November 17, Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP (MCB) will hold its Fall Employment and Labor Law Webinar. Greg Reilly, the head of MCB's Employment & Labor Law Practice Group, will update the audience on recent developments in employment law. Reilly has been practicing in the employment and labor law field for more than 20 years and has extensive experience in all aspects of employment law, including wage and hour laws, wrongful termination, non-compete and non-solicitation litigation, class and collec - tive action lawsuits, and litigation involving discrimination and workplace harassment, among other employment issues. The course will provide two New York State continuing legal education credits and two HR (Human Resources) Certification Institute credits. For more information on MCB's seminars and continuing education programs, please visit www.mcblaw.com. The Putnam Hospital Center Auxiliary presented hospital President James Caldas with a check for $35,000, the third install - ment of a $150,000 one-year pledge the Auxiliary made for renovations to the hos - pital's Emergency Department. To date, the Auxiliary has contributed $78,000 toward the pledge. The $35,000 was raised from April to June. During that time, Auxiliary members put in 4,188 volunteer hours, including 1,984 hours at the Eagle Eye Too thrift shop in Mahopac, 2,017 hours at the PHC gift shop and 187 hours at Eagle Eye thrift shop in Brewster. The hours were significantly lower at Brewster's Eagle Eye because the store was closed for several months. It reopened in July. Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville has received a five-star quality rating — the best possible — from Medicare for the sixth straight time. Only one-fifth of the more than 15,000 nursing homes nation - wide have a five-star Medicare rating. Mountainside's rating came after inspec- tors from the New York state Department of Health completed a rigorous recertifica- tion survey. Information from that survey was used to determine the Medicare rating. Medicare and the rating are administered by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which also works with states to administer Medicaid. Mountainside — a Medicare- and Medicaid- certified nursing home providing skilled nurses 24 hours a day — is an integral part of Kingston's HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley healthcare system. The system also includes Margaretville Hospital adjacent to Mountainside; HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary's Avenue Campus and Broadway Campus in Kingston; and Woodland Pond independent- living continuing care retirement community in New Paltz, New York. ■ (L –R) Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Lauren Kropf-Zuckerman; Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations Rob Lee; Marketing and Public Relations Director Marcy Manheim; Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator Dominique Mohansingh; and Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Donna Fischer 1 4 | Mid Hudson MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M

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