Five medical practices recently joined Bon Secours Medical Group, upping the region”™s Hippocratic footprint in such areas as nuclear imaging, surgery and internal medicine. The practices are:
Ӣ Ramapo Valley Surgical Associates, led by Thomas L. Facelle, a surgeon and longtime chief of surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital. The practice also includes surgeons Peter Kaye, Karen Karsif and William Goumas.
Ӣ Hudson Valley Medical Associates, based in Pomona, a six-provider internal medicine practice that includes physicians Scott Bernstein, Richard Kole, Elliot Henson and Rosana Millos.
”¢ Metropolitan Cardiology Consultants, led by Cary Hirsch, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Good Samaritan Hospital, with locations in Suffern, Goshen and Ridgewood, N.J., each of which possesses nuclear cardiology facilities providing both exercise and pharmacological stress testing with nuclear imaging. The physicians who make up the practice include Cary L. Hirsch, Mark D. Kirschenbaum, Hratch Kazanjian, Seth Hurwitz, Mark Fisch and Andrew J. Najovits;
Ӣ George R. Cox, a Suffern-based physician specializing in internal medicine and a longstanding member or the Rockland County medical community. He has been at the forefront of promoting hospice and palliative care in the region.
”¢ Rockland Pulmonary and Medical Associates, a multi-specialty practice with 14 physicians certified in internal medicine, pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. The doctors who make up the pulmonary care practice include Leon Harris, who will remain as chief of medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital, Clement Osei, Stephen Menitove, Jack W. Horng, Benjamin G. Chang, Kristy Bauer, Deborah Shapiro and Jonathan Berg. Internal medicine physicians are Mary Leahy, Parag Shah, Dean Miller, Diane Deschino, Leonard Zimmerman and Anita Shah.
The Bon Secours Charity Health System includes Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, a regional medical center, and two community hospitals: Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis and St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick.
“The integration of these practices into the Bon Secours family provides a strong partnership among patients, physicians and the hospitals in BSCHS, and reflects a growing national trend of previously independent physician groups joining larger organizations to provide patients a more consistent and a better continuum of medical care,” according to a statement by Bon Secours. “This change will have a positive impact on patients, as the integration of the practices and alignment of services will show visible and demonstrable improvements in the efficiency and quality of their care.”
Bon Secours CEO Philip A. Patterson said, “In today”™s health care delivery environment, patients are best served when hospitals and physicians work closely together to meet the health care needs of our communities. Our patients will benefit from the affiliation of these respected medical professionals, who have chosen to partner with BSCHS to care for the people of the Hudson Valley well into the future.”
Additionally, Bon Secours Charity Health System provides the services of a Certified Home Health Agency, two long-term care facilities, an assisted living and adult home facility, and several off-site medical programs.
