Out & About
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Hospital Trustees Get Their (Long Over-) Due Breaks
Hospitals provide essential services to New Yorkers, and New York’s hospitals serve the nation as centers for academic research and the training of medical professionals. So it was nice to see the trustees of our hospitals awarded some fanfare at the annual tribute organized by a health care think tank, the United Hospital Fund.
“As soon as I walked in, I knew it was a place of God, a place I wanted to help in any way I can,” a real estate executive who has been a board member at Calvary Hospital since 1994, Amit Sikdar, said.
“New York’s hospitals are so lucky to have such bright, capable people serving as its trustees,” the president and chief executive of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Herbert Pardes, said.
He singled out his hospital’s honoree, Sarah Nash. “She serves on so many committees — she probably can’t count them all,” Dr. Pardes said.
The event honored 34 trustees in all, including Patricia Bauman of Montefiore Medical Center, Robert Downey of Lenox Hill Hospital, Joshua Greenberg of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Dr. Lawrence Ottaviano of the Cabrini Medical Center, and Deborah Wright of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
The event, with leadership from a Mount Sinai Medical Center trustee, Patricia Levinson, and a New York-Presbyterian Hospital trustee, Jeffrey Greenberg, raised $800,000 for the United Hospital Fund. Among the think tank’s publications are “A Blueprint for Universal Health Insurance Coverage in New York,” and “Administration of Medicaid in New York State: Key Players and Their Roles,” both published this year.
The fund’s president, James Tallon, served as head of Governor Spitzer’s transition team on health care.
