NYP-Hudson Valley Gives Scholarships To 5 Local Students

From NewYork Presbyterian: The Auxiliary of NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital awarded five local high school students each with $1,000 scholarships for their academic achievements, display of character, and level of commitment to study in the field of healthcare. Three of the students were celebrated at a hospital ceremony by the Auxiliary’s Scholarship Committee.

Pictured (from left to right) are: Patricia Fraleigh; Sister Mary McCaffrey; Jhoely Duque, a Lakeland High School graduate who will study at Boston University; Jessie Zhanay, a Peekskill High School graduate who will study at NYU; Danielle Merante, a graduate of Walter Panas High School who will study at Pace University; Marie Turner, Virginia Rederer, and Donna Edwards, Chair, Auxiliary Scholarship Committee. (Recipients not pictured: Camila Orellana, a Peekskill High School graduate who will study at SUNY at Buffalo, and Nicole Mitchell, a Haldane High School graduate who will study at Colgate.)

NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital

Founded in 1889 by the Helping Hand Association, NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, located in Cortlandt Manor, New York, serves residents of the Hudson Valley and Westchester County. The 128-bed facility provides a wide range of ambulatory care and inpatient services with 420 physicians on staff in 62 specialties. The hospital is home to the region’s only "No Wait" emergency department, which sees more than 40,000 visits per year. The hospital’s Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, the first of its kind in the region, provides patients with access to an extraordinary level of expertise and resources, including highly skilled and dedicated oncologists from ColumbiaDoctors, the faculty practice of Columbia University Medical Center, Medical oncology, radiation oncology, the infusion center and support services are centrally located in one building on the Cortlandt Manor campus. NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital has received a string of national awards for patient satisfaction as well as clinical excellence, including the Guardian of Excellence Award from Press Ganey to Ambulatory Surgery in 2014 and 2015 for patient experience. For more information, visit www.nyp.org/hudsonvalley or call 914-737-9000.

NewYork-Presbyterian

NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the nation’s most comprehensive healthcare delivery networks, focused on providing innovative and compassionate care to patients in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the globe. In collaboration with two renowned medical school partners, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Herbert and Florence Irving Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian is consistently recognized as a leader in medical education, ground-breaking research and clinical innovation.

NewYork-Presbyterian has four major divisions: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked #1 in the New York metropolitan area by U.S. News and World Report and repeatedly named to the magazine’s Honor Roll of best hospitals in the nation; NewYork-Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network is comprised of leading hospitals in and around New York and delivers high-quality care to patients throughout the region; NewYork-Presbyterian Physician Services connects medical experts with patients in their communities; and NewYork-Presbyterian Community and Population Health features the hospital’s ambulatory care network sites and operations, community care initiatives and healthcare quality programs, including NewYork Quality Care, established by NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell and Columbia. NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the largest healthcare providers in the U.S. Each year, nearly 29,000 NewYork-Presbyterian professionals deliver exceptional care to more than 2 million patients.

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Photo courtesy of New York Presbyterian-Hudson Valley Hospital