Steve Heller’s work is familiar to anyone driving from Kingston to Woodstock. His shop is off Rte 28. Photo by Kenneth Gabrielsen Seamless, advanced care gets Boiceville artist back to creating robots, rocket ships...
Peter Myer is happy to be back home in Albany, spending time with his wife, Marie. Photo by Daniella Inzerilli After three cardiac events that greatly damaged his heart, a grandfather in Albany is...
Fifteen-year-old Amia Murray has been seizure-free since her minimally invasive brain surgery. Photos by Matt Wittmeyer This teen’s seizures have stopped, following a minimally invasive procedure at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital. By Laurie Yarnell...
Photos by Kenneth Gabrielsen One patient who stopped her prescribed medication abruptly developed painful withdrawal symptoms but found prompt and caring treatment at St. Anthony Community Hospital. By Laurie Yarnell During the pandemic, Lisa...
Adobe Stock / hywards The first kidney transplant patient at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital is doing great, thanks to her skilled medical team — and her dad. In 2002, Valerie Portelle was born with...
5-year-old Evie LaBrecque and her family find a supportive community at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital. When her older daughter, Zoey, was born with cystic fibrosis seven years ago, a Google search led Denise LaBrecque...
While other mothers joyously watched their babies achieve milestones, Toni Ann Schmitt of East Hampton, NY, searched for a medical team to help her son, Matthew. When he was a toddler, Matthew began experiencing...
In February 2021, Walter Oestreicher’s life took a drastic turn as the 16-year-old from Westchester County shifted his focus from high school academics and athletics to surviving MIS-C — a rare but serious condition...
The beds in the Pediatric Emergency Room at MidHudson Regional Hospital are kid-friendly, just like the colorful mural below. WMCHealth offers expanding pediatric services and specialized expertise to children and families across the Hudson...
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.
Photos by John Halpern Thanks to the talented physicians at MidHudson Regional Hospital, a Beacon girl is back on her feet — and out of pain. By Deborah Skolnik In 2011, physicians at Maria...