Bond Between Nurses and Families of Premature Babies Goes Past Birth
Just 23 weeks into her pregnancy, Tania Thorbourne underwent an emergency C-section at Westchester Medical Center. Only after she awoke in the recovery room did she get a first glimpse of London, her daughter,...
Scrapbooking Therapy
All baby milestones are special, but for a baby in the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), they are very different—first skin-to-skin contact, last day of oxygen support or feeding tube—and deserve not only...
There’s No Place Like Home
When 55-year-old Sharon Young of Wappingers Falls was transported to the Emergency Room at MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center last August, the last thing she expected was a two-month stay in the...
Sometimes Best Friends are Brought Together by Dire Circumstances—in These Cases, the Need for a Heart Transplant
The last thing Sal Prestigiacomo imagined, though he’d been getting breathless while walking up flights of stairs, was that he was dangerously ill. “I thought I had bronchitis,” the 61-year-old Staten Island resident explains....
For His Entire Medical Career, Sam Simon, MD, Has Been Doing Double Duty as a Farmer
When Sam Simon was a growing up on a farm in Middletown, New York, he dreamed of following in the footsteps of his family veterinarian or his family doctor. “I looked up to them,...
Brain Power: How MidHudson Regional Hospital Saved Hit-and-Run Victim Katarina Napolitani
On the night of a fierce lightning storm, Katarina Napolitani’s life changed in a flash. It was July 8, 2012, and the 19-year-old from New Windsor, New York, was leaving a friend’s party in...
Tiny Tools, Small Patients, Huge Medical Gains
In 2012, Donalee Mickler raced her 1-year-old daughter Zechia to the emergency room at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center. Zechia was in severe respiratory distress, and Mickler would soon learn her...
New Ways of Monitoring the Brain Mean Better Outcomes for Those with Severe Brain Injuries
No one ever wants to get the news that someone they love has been diagnosed with a serious brain injury such as a stroke, a trauma or an aneurysm. But if you live anywhere...
Cordelia V. Sharma, MD, Takes a Leadership Role at Westchester Medical Center—and Beyond
Growing up in India, Cordelia V. Sharma, MD, always knew she would have a career in science. Her father, an engineer, had a keen interest in medicine, and her uncle and two sisters were...
Non-Invasive Cardiologist Tanya Dutta, MD on the Roots of Heart Disease and How to Stay Heart-Healthy
Can you explain what happens to my heart during a heart attack? Normally, your heart is fed oxygenated blood through blood vessels called coronary arteries. During a heart attack, a clot forms in the...
ABOUT WMCHEALTH NETWORK
The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 13,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. The Network has Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, Primary and Comprehensive Stroke Centers, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State. Today, WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org.
WMCHealth includes Westchester Medical Center, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, the Behavioral Health Center, MidHudson Regional Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Anthony Community Hospital, Bon Secours Community Hospital, HealthAlliance Hospital: Broadway Campus, HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary’s Avenue Campus, and Margaretville Hospital.
WMCHealth Physicians includes the medical practices of Advanced Physician Services and Bon Secours Medical Group.