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Orange Regional Medical Center is pleased to announce the next event in its series of art exhibits. Salt of the Earth is a social documentary event that tells the story of Orange County farmers and their families who have chosen to preserve their land through conservation. The exhibit will feature black-and-white images by Warwick photographer Robert Skinner with accompanying stories by local writer Dorothy Gaydos. The exhibit is presented in collaboration with the Orange County Land Trust. There will be an opening reception with the artist and farmers on Friday, Nov. 21 from 4–6 p.m. at Orange Regional Medical Center, located at 707 East Main Street, Middletown on the ground floor gallery adjacent to the conference center. Light farm-to-table refreshments will be served. The exhibit will remain on view until Dec. 19. Salt of the Earth is part of Orange Regional's ongoing program of changing exhibits. The Gallery at Orange Regional Medical Center is free and open to the public. For additional information about Orange Regional's Art Program, call Orange Regional Medical Center's Art Curator, Sarah Johnson, at 845-333-2385 or visit www.ormc.org/art. The Wound Care and Hyperbaric Therapy Center at Northern Dutchess Hospital recently met the highest industry standards and best practices in hyperbaric medicine, according to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. The wound care center recently received full accreditation from the professional medical society after a team of experts examined the center's staffing and training, equipment installation, operations, maintenance, patient safety and care stan - dards. Hyperbaric medical technology uses oxygen and pressure to speed up wound healing. For information, visit www.health- quest.org/WoundCareCenter-1027. Middletown Medical is pleased to announce the acquisition of George Giovannone Physical Therapy of Middletown, located at 1219 Dolsontown Road in Middletown. Middletown Medical's physical therapy ser - vices will now be based at this location. Giovannone has been practicing physical therapy since 1981, and worked in New Jersey and Massachusetts at various hospitals and rehabilitation centers before coming to Orange County in 1984. Beginning as a staff physical therapist with Horton Memorial Hospital in Middletown, he spent several years as director of outpatient physical therapy services for Orange County Sport Medicine Services in Goshen. During this time, he also was proprietor of Home Care Physical Therapy Services. Giovannone is a 1981 honors gradu - ate of Northeastern University in Boston, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in physical therapy. For more information, call 845-344-1899. Vassar Brothers Medical Center opened an addition to its state-of-the-art emergency department on Wednesday, Sept. 17. The 7,000-square-foot addition to the Charles E. and Mabel E. Conklin Center for Emergency Care is only the beginning of a complete ren- ovation of the entire emergency department, as well as the 127-year-old medical center's first-floor corridors and lobby. The $2 million expansion increases the treatment space by 15 bays, for a total of 57. All bays have Members of George Giovannone Physical Therapy M D N E W S . CO M ■ MD NEWS Mid Hudson | 1 7