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in part by HealthAlliance, is a coalition of busi- nesses, organizations and individuals that pro- motes a healthy and active local community. The $35,000 also supports HealthAlliance's leadership of Live Well Kingston's Eat Well focus team. The Eat Well team brings together people working on the food system in Kingston. This effort includes organizing with urban agriculture groups to grow and distribute food around the city. Live Well Kingston will use the grant's remaining $90,000 to develop other programs to increase physical activity in the city and improve access to nutritious foods. Middletown Medical has launched a new, user-friendly mobile website, which provides convenient and fast access to a wide array of services for all mobile devices. After entering middletownmedical.com on a mobile device, a patient is directed to a new - ly designed mobile site that provides some of the following features: • The ability to call any of Middletown Medical's 14 office locations directly from the site • The ability to text location information to any cell phone • Extremely fast downloading • Easy navigation • Access to Middletown Medical's extensive list of services The Benedictine Health Foundation provided $90,000 to support the purchase of a specialized operating table at the Center for Orthopedic Specialties at HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary's Avenue Campus. The specially designed table enhances surgeons' ability to perform lower-extremity fracture surgery and treat long-bone frac - tures, eases surgeons' ability to maneuver a patient's legs during surgery, and improves the doctors' capacity to see and access joints. Orthopedists at HealthAlliance use the state-of-the-art table when treating patients needing specialty surgery including hip-frac - ture surgery, hip arthroscopy and minimally invasive joint-replacement surgery. Orange Regional Medical Center has been recognized for its dedication to patient safety by the Leapfrog Group and has been awarded an A grade in the spring 2015 Hospital Safety Scores. Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Score, available at hospitalsafetyscore.org, rates how well hospitals protect patients from prevent - able medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital. Orange Regional joins the top 31 percent of the 2,500 hospitals in the United States that received an A grade. The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of the nation's leading patient safety experts and administered by the Leapfrog Group, a national, non-profit hospital safety watchdog. The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the score is free to the public and designed to give consum - ers information they can use when facing a hospital stay. On Saturday, April 25, nearly 400 people gathered at the Lazy Swan Golf and Country Club Village for the HealthAlliance Foundation's 26th Annual Tulip Ball. The event celebrated the achievements of James P. Corsones, MD, Barbara Connelly Cohen and Robert Tonner, and raised $200,000 to support HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley Tonner, Chief Executive Officer of Tonner Doll Co. and Second Vice Chair of HAF's Board of Directors, accepted the Community Service Award. Cohen, longtime community resident and volunteer, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Corsones, hospitalist at HAHV, was named the 2015 Tulip Ball Honoree. Tulip Ball honorees (L–R): James P. Corsones, MD, 2015 Tulip Ball honoree; Barbara Connelly Cohen, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient; Robert Tonner, Community Service Award recipient Patients may post questions, comment on discussions and find support for living with cancer by signing up for Health Quest's newly launched CancerConnect. This online com - munity allows local cancer patients and their loved ones to interact at any time of day, from anywhere, with more than 50,000 other mem- bers across the country going through similar diagnoses and treatments. Mid-Hudson Valley users can post within the Health Quest com - munity and join conversations with individu- als nationwide. There are 60 cancer-specific groups and others focused on caregiving, health and wellness, clinical trials, insurance, nutrition and survivorship. All are profession - ally monitored. CancerConnect was founded by oncologist Charles Weaver, MD, after his son devel - oped a rare sarcoma and desired a social media tool like Facebook to interact with others with his condition. Registering with CancerConnect is fast, free and confiden - tial. Users do not have to be Health Quest patients. To access CancerConnect, visit healthquest.org/cancerconnect. ■ The Benedictine Health Foundation provided $90,000 to support the purchase of a specialized operating table at the Center for Orthopedic Specialties at HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary's Avenue Campus. +++++++++++++++++++ + +++ + +++ +++++++++++++++++++ LOCAL NEWS ❯ 2 2 | Mid Hudson MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M

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