Leaders of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital celebrated their new affiliation with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception Tuesday at the 126-year-old hospital in Cortlandt Manor.
- From left, John C. Federspiel, president of NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital; Dr. Laura L. Forese, president of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System; and Michael Delfino, board chairman of the Foundation of NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital.
The former Hudson Valley Hospital Center joined the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System in January, following Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville in making NewYork-Presbyterian its parent organization and co-operator. The 128-bed hospital in northern Westchester has 1,300 employees.
“Our affiliation with NewYork-Presbyterian will enable this already excellent hospital to become even better,” John C. Federspiel, president of NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital, told some 60 hospital board members, donors, public officials and hospital employees at the hospital”™s Pataki Center.
Dr. Laura L. Forese, president of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, described her first impression of the regional hospital.
“This hospital is a gem and frankly I knew it the first moment I walked in the door,” she said. “There is something palpable when you come into an institution and patients feel that. You see it from the physicians, you see it from the nurses, you see it from every single member of the staff. The patient experience here at Hudson Valley has been nothing short of outstanding.”
