Touro College Names Osteopathic Medicine College Dean
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Touro College has named the immediate past president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, Robert Goldberg, dean of its College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Goldberg, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, succeeds the school’s founding dean, Dr. Martin Diamond, who will become dean emeritus.
The medical college opened in Harlem in September 2007, the first new medical school in New York in nearly three decades.
Lenox Hill Grows in Queens
Lenox Hill Hospital is expanding its presence in Queens through a new affiliation with a leading cardiovascular practice in the borough, the Cardiovascular Associates of New York, which currently includes 16 cardiologists at six sites, including four in Queens and one on Long Island. Under the agreement, a new office will be opened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, at Lenox Hill.
“Managing the Queens patient population allows us to expand and enhance our services to the Queens community,” the chairman of interventional cardiology at Lenox Hill, Dr. Gary Roubin, said in a statement announcing the deal.
HHC Considers New Medical Supply Vendor
The city’s public hospital network is considering a contract with a new medical and surgical supply vendor that would save it more than $194 million in the next nine years.
At a meeting of the Health and Hospitals Corp.’s finance committee, HHC’s senior vice president of operations, Frank Cirillo, told board members that if HHC does not take action, it faces up to $2.1 billion in medical supply costs spanning the next nine years. Mr. Cirillo outlined a proposed nine-year contract with Cardinal Health, selected after HHC issued a request for proposals.
Officials See Paterson Health Care Commitment
Governor Paterson is embracing the health care agenda initiated by his predecessor, according to state health officials.
At the United Hospital Fund’s annual conference on Medicaid, held July 10, the state’s Medicaid director, Deborah Bachrach, answered in the affirmative a question that many health care insiders have been asking in recent months. “Paterson negotiated this year’s budget,” she said. “The reforms we put forward,” she added, were embraced in the budget “under the leadership of Governor Paterson.”
Paterson Promotes Two State Health Advisers
Mr. Paterson promoted his chief health care adviser, Dennis Whalen, as interim director of state operations. Mr. Whalen is responsible for policies and operations of the state’s health and human services agencies. Also, Mr. Paterson appointed Joe Baker as acting deputy secretary for health and human services. Most recently, Mr. Baker was assistant deputy secretary for health and human services.
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