WMCHealth’s TCS New York City Marathon Team Raises Nearly $50,000

VALHALLA, N.Y. (November 22, 2019) – A special group of Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) employees representing multiple healthcare professions across the region raised nearly $50,000 running in the TCS New York City Marathon earlier this month in support of WMCHealth facilities across the Hudson Valley.

The team’s 11 members ran a combined total of 288.2 miles in support of the life-changing and lifesaving care provided at each of WMCHealth’s 10 Hudson Valley hospitals. More than 40 friends, family and colleagues of the runners gathered at mile 19 at 120th Street and First Avenue to cheer on the team.

Team members who competed on this year’s team were:

Christopher Castro-Gonzalez, PrEP Specialist at Westchester Medical Center; Fabio Danisi, MD at MidHudson Regional Hospital; Angela Flesland, RN at Westchester Medical Center; Brittany Foote, RN at Westchester Medical Center; Brian Geiger, MSPT at Westchester Medical Center; Lisa Hirsch, MD at Good Samaritan Hospital; Kristin Jedziniak, RN at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital; Michael Kim, MD at Westchester Medical Center; Luis Tatem, MD at Westchester Medical Center; Elizabeth Tilley, PhD at Westchester Medical Center; and Yurij Tsuvanyk, surgical technician at Mary’s Avenue Campus of Health Alliance Hospital.

About Westchester Medical Center Health 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 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, 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.