Food Bank chooses programs director
Ayesha Khan has joined Food Bank for Westchester as director of programs and network services.
In her new role, Khan will oversee the Food Bank”™s diverse range of programs that, last year alone, facilitated the distribution of 7.2 million pounds of food ”” providing 6 million meals to families, senior citizens and children across the county. Khan will serve as a key liaison between the Food Bank and its partner agency network, charged with maintaining collaborative relationships already established and pioneering new partnerships.
Recently moving from California, where she worked for the past six years developing, delivering and evaluating service programs as the director of senior resources for the Episcopal Senior Communities Foundation, Khan developed a new database and intake tracking software to measure participation levels and the social impact and effectiveness of programs.
Prior to that, she served as regional manager of program access, managing 26 family resource centers and 17 service coordinators for an agency that serves eight counties in northern California.
Wilson named Scarsdale chamber chief
Jason Wilson, manager of Julia B. Fee Sotheby”™s International Realty Scarsdale brokerage, was recently named president of the Scarsdale Chamber of Commerce.
Among the numerous changes that Wilson set into motion immediately upon his appointment is a complete redesign of the chamber”™s website, which launched at the beginning of February. In addition, the organization will implement new opportunities for raising money for charities during regular chamber events and the list of charities supported will expand. Raffles held at these gatherings will raise funds to be split between selected charities and raffle winners, who may choose to donate their winnings to the charities if desired. In prior years, funds raised through raffle drawings went to the chamber instead of to charities.
Health system promotes Budakowski
The Greater Hudson Valley Health System, composed of Catskill Regional Medical Center and Orange Regional Medical Center, has promoted Jacqui Budakowski to the position of meaningful use coordinator and information security officer.
Budakowski has been with Orange Regional since 2004 when she began working as a critical care float nurse. She became patient flow coordinator in 2005 and transitioned into the information technology department to work on the Epic implementation as a clinical analyst in 2011.
As meaningful use coordinator, Budakowski will continue to leverage her extensive clinical and systems knowledge to navigate GHVHS through the meaningful-use process. Meaningful use is using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to improve quality, safety, efficiency and reduce health disparities. It also engages patients and family and improves care coordination and public health.
In her new role as information security officer, Budakowski is responsible for enhancing GHVHS”™s efforts to ensure all electronic medical records and other information assets are sufficiently protected.
Lynch wins engineer award
Patrick F. Lynch, president of OLA Consulting Engineers in Hawthorne, was named Engineer of the Year by the New York State Society of Professional Engineers Westchester/Putnam Chapter.
Lynch, who has been providing engineering services for more than 28 years, joined OLA in 1989, became a partner in 1993 and was named president in 2001.
As president of OLA, Lynch helped position the firm as an early pioneer and later as an industry leader in sustainable design in our region, with notable projects, including the Jacob Burns Media Arts Lab in Pleasantville, the PepsiCo R&D Building in Valhalla, the new Student Center at Manhattanville College in Purchase, and a new corporate aviation facility at Westchester County Airport, among others.
Badiwala joins Phelps group
One of the members of the inaugural class of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow and New York Medical College, Anesh Badiwala, has accepted a position with Phelps Medical Associates, the hospital”™s primary and specialty care medical group.
“From the beginning, a fundamental goal of our program has been to cultivate the best and brightest family physician leaders for our community through innovation and partnership,” said Shantie Harkisoon, program director. “We are very proud of Dr. Badiwala for being one of the first residents to fulfill that vision.”
The new residency program in Family Medicine received national accreditation in 2011 and was designed to help meet the growing shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S. and in Westchester County.
New director at ARC of Rockland
Dinorah D”™Auria has joined ARC of Rockland as director of clinical and family services. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Carlos Albizu University in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a bachelor”™s degree in psychology from InterAmerican University in San Juan.
Prior to her position with ARC, D”™Auria was vice president of clinical and ancillary services for Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey.
D”™Auria will serve as a liaison, overseeing the coordination and integration of services and support across departments, always with individual at the hub.
Dominican Sisters promotes Bogannam
Dominican Sisters Family Health Service Inc. has promoted Marianne Bogannam to director of development.
As director of development, Bogannam will be responsible for assisting the agency to achieve its mission through philanthropic support, including special events, marketing, fundraising and community outreach.
Bogannam started working at the agency nine years ago as the development coordinator at the Suffolk County location. While at that position she was the chairperson for the Suffolk Board-driven Charity in Action Fundraising Committee. She also actively pursued major donors on the east end of Long Island. She was later promoted to development manager, where she oversaw the Helping Hands program for seniors, coordinated and wrote grants, as well as managed the thrift store operations and organized all of the fundraising events in the county. She was also responsible for overseeing more than 60 volunteers at the thrift store.
Promotions at VHB
Gina Martini has been promoted to director of planning and Bonnie Von Ohlsen has been promoted to director of environmental planning and landscape architecture in the firm”™s White Plains office of VHB Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture PC.
Martini will direct VHB”™s planning efforts throughout the lower Hudson Valley, including land use, zoning, affordable housing, grant writing, environmental impact analysis and economic development, and continue her planning work for Long Island communities as well. An 18-year veteran of the planning industry, Martini specializes in housing needs studies, including the preparation of consolidated plans and annual action plans as well as the analysis of impediments to fair housing choice.
Von Ohlsen is a registered landscape architect in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and an experienced environmental planner overseeing a variety of planning, design and development projects in New York. She has more than 30 years of professional experience and is proficient in the preparation of State Environmental Quality Review Act documentation as well as site analysis, land planning, graphics coordination and project management. As director of environmental planning and landscape architecture, she will lead the office”™s efforts on major land planning projects and environmental impact statements.
Bedford receives risk award
At the recent annual meeting and training school of the Association of Towns of the State of New York, the town of Bedford received the New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal (NYMIR) Risk Management Award. The award is given annually in recognition of a member town”™s commitment to sound risk management, safety and training efforts.
The award was presented to Bedford town Supervisor Chris Burdick by the Association of Towns Executive Director Gerry Gist together with Nyman”™s Executive Director Kevin Crawford.
Bedford was chosen because of the way in which its officers and employees seek advice, listen and then respond to risk recommendations and other loss-control suggestions. Of critical importance is the town”™s safety committee chaired by Director of Personnel Joan Gallagher. Meetings are held bimonthly and attended by all major department heads. The committee coordinates a Safety Training Day each year for all staff to attend on a variety of topics and the results speak for themselves. The town”™s overall loss ratio of 55.74 percent in 2011 when it first joined NYMIR has shrunk to 7.16 percent for 2014, among the very best of NYMIR”™s more than 850 government members.
The efforts of the personnel director as well as all department heads were cited by Burdick in accepting the award.
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