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Beth Israel Medical Center
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Beth Israel
2010
January 25, 2010: BI-Kings Highway Division to Present Service Awards on January 27

January 22, 2010: Beth Israel Kings Highway Division Honors 2010 Heart Award Winners

January 20, 2010: Continuum Reproductive Center (CRC) Expands to Westchester County – Opens Satellite Office in Mt. Kisco, NY

January 11, 2010: Continuum Health Partners and its Member Hospitals and Affiliated Physicians Face Possible Termination from Insurance Plans Sponsored by United HealthCare - Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of New Yorkers

2009
November 29, 2009: Patient Ties the Knot in The Zen Sanctuary on the Inpatient Oncology Unit at Beth Israel Medical Center.

November 25, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center And St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center Win Federal Grant To Aid Local Children And Families

November 18, 2009: Continuum Center for Health and Healing Launches New, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Funded Web Site

November 5, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center Establishes the Betty and Morton Yarmon Center for Healthy Aging

November 5, 2009: Dr. Brian Koll Awarded APIC's "Hero in Infection Prevention" for 2010.

October 1, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center's Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine Honors "What a Wonderful World" Awardees

September 14, 2009: Beth Israel’s Louis Armstrong Center Hosts Music & Health Symposium for Musicians, Performing Artists and Medical Professionals, October 13

September 9, 2009: Broadway's "Chicago" Cast to Perform at "What A Wonderful World" Awards on September 22

September 9, 2009: Beth Israel Helps Pediatric Patients “ROAR”

September 2, 2009: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing Graduates 14 in Evening Program's First Class

August 24, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center “Bans The Bag”

August 19, 2009: NYS Safety Survey Shows Zero Infection Rate Postop for Colon Surgery at Beth Israel - Kings Highway Division

August 10, 2009: Beth Israel Offers State of the Art Digital Mammography in Brooklyn

July 27, 2009: Beth Israel's Louis Armstrong Center For Music & Medicine Announces 2009 What A Wonderful World Honorees: Pain Specialist Russell Portenoy, MD, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and musical prodigy Michael Kingon

July 13, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center Goes Zen: At New York’s Beth Israel Medical Center, Buddhist Chaplains Offer Prayers, Meditation and Spiritual Counseling to the Sick

July 10, 2009: Beth Israel's Louis Armstrong Center Focuses on Music Therapy and Pediatric Treatment Integration, August 4

June 11, 2009: Fashion Icon Donna Karan Teams Up With Beth Israel Medical Center
To Create “Optimal Healing Environment” in Cancer Care

June 3, 2009: Fashion Icon Donna Karan Addresses Graduates of Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing

June 1, 2009: Beth Israel Appoints New Division Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

May 26, 2009: Music, The Breath and Health -- A New Book on Advances in Integrative Music Therapy

May 21, 2009: Music Therapy for Infants

May 21, 2009: Music and Medicine Flute Therapy

May 11, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospitals Honor Their Nurses During Nurse Recognition Week

May 11, 2009: Beth Israel Nurse Practitioner Named First Nurse Scholar-In-Residence by Joint Commission Resources and Hill-Rom

April 29, 2009: Fashion Icon Donna Karan to Address Graduates of Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing on June 2

March 30, 20009: Louis Armstrong Center Offers a Day Retreat for Personal and Professional Caregivers on Tuesday, May 12, 2009

March 2, 2009: Harris M. Nagler, MD Appointed Interim President of Beth Israel Medical Center

February 16, 2009: Cool Therapy for Heart Attack Saves Lives at Beth Israel-Kings Highway Division

February 6, 2009: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing Names Robin Glazer and the Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare as 2009 Artist-in-Residence

January 28, 2009: Beth Israel Names New Chief of Its Nationally Renowned Comprehensive Breast Service

2008
December 17, 2008: Beth Israel Medical Center Offers Non-Surgical Treatment for Fibroids and Cancers

December 16, 2008: Beth Israel Medical Center Awarded Five-Star Ratings for Spine Surgery for Third Year In A Row By HealthGrades

December 12, 2008: Olympic Gold Medal Winner Michael Phelps Brings a “Splash” of Cheer to Kids at Beth Israel Medical Center

December 5, 2008: The Seventh Districs Association Supports Pediatrics at Beth Israel

November 24, 2008: Beth Israel Medical Center’s Director of Infection Control Named
Infection Prevention Champion for 2008

November 19, 2008: Fashion Icon Donna Karan Teams Up With Beth Israel Medical Center
To Create “Optimal Healing Environment” in Cancer Care

November 17, 2008: Kings Highway Division Honors Employees For Care and Compassion

October 14, 2008: Perinatal bereavement program invites families, staff and the community to their annual memorial event - “A Time of Remembrance”

October 3, 2008: Unleash Your Natural Energy, Power up Your Health & Feel 10 Years Younger

October 1, 2008: Beth Israel Establishes 24-Hour, Seven Days-A-Week
Walk-In Primary Care Facility

August 13, 2008: Beth Israel Recognized for Implementing Quality Cardiac and Stroke Care

July 31, 2008: Louis Armstong Center for Music & Medicine Announces "What a Wonderful World" Honorees

July 14, 2008: Scandinavia Adopts Beth Israel Program As A Model For International School For Music and Medicine

July 11, 2008: Beth Israel Offers Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
To Gastric Bypass Patients Who Are Regaining Weight

June 19, 2008: Excessively Sweaty Hands: A Slippery Slope When it Comes to Social Functioning

June 10, 2008: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing and Exscelsior College Expand Education Access for Nurses

June 6, 2008: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing to Graduate 100 New Nurses

June 2, 2008: Beth Israel Nurses Honored

April 8, 2008: Beth Israel's Child Life Program Receives Support from The Starlight Starbright Childrens' Foundation

March 17, 2008: A Student Nurse's Call to Action

March 5, 2008: Beth Israel's Music Therapy Program Continues a Legacy of Gratitude to Scandinavia

February 11, 2008: Louis Armstrong Center’s Music for AIR Is Awarded J&J/SAH Grant

January 28, 2008: Beth Israel Psychiatry Resident Receives Prestigious Laughlin Fellowship

January 28, 2008: Beth Israel Offers Inside Look at Chronic Pain Therapy: Webcast February 6, 2008

2007
December 29, 2007: Beth Israel Medical Center's Louis Armstrong Center Will Sponsor a Breath and Health Symposium in January 2008.

December 12, 2007: Beth Israel Medical Center - Kings Highway Division dedicated Nacmias-Borren Family Atrium

December 10, 2007: Beth Israel School of Nursing Admissions Rise to Record Levels

November 27, 2007: Beth Israel Medical Center Celebrates Its Annual Second Century Ball

October 22, 2007: New High Tech Radiology Suite Opens at Kings Highway

September 17, 2007: Beth Israel’s Harris M. Nagler, MD, FACS, Recipient of the 2007 Russell W. Lavengood Award

July 2007: Mapplethorpe Foundation Gift Advances HIV Research Initiatives at Beth Israel Medical Center

June 5, 2007: Beth Israel's New Israeli Health Program Harkens to Its Roots

April 3, 2007: Beth Israel's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Given National Recognition for Family-Centered Care

March 21, 2007: Flexible, Computer Assisted Stapling Device Literally Tells Weight Loss Surgeons How to Reduce the Risk of Errors During Gastric Bypass Surgery

March 14, 2007: Beth Israel Nurse Manager Recognized by Local Weekly Newspaper for a Lifetime Dedicated to Nursing

March 1, 2007: Beth Israel Introduces Two New State-of-the-Art Breast Cancer Procedures

February 10, 2007: Beth Israel Medical Center Offering New Breast Cancer Imaging Device

January 27, 2007: CDC Safety Survey Shows Zero Infection Rate for Hip Replacement Surgery at Beth Israel Kings Highway Division

January 22, 2007: High Tech Treatment for Kidney Stones at Beth Israel

2006
October 31, 2006: Beth Israel Kings Highway Welcomes Weight Loss Surgery Specialist

September 22, 2006: Beth Israel Welcomes Three Specialists

September 19, 2006: The Continuum Center For Health & Healing In Conjunction with the Division of Orthopaedic & Sports Rehabilitation Announces the Opening of New Physical Therapy/Physical Rhehabilitation Training Center, We Focus on Fitness

August 2, 2006: Beth Israel Announces Major Expansion of Surgical Services in Brooklyn; Merab Krikhely, MD, Named as Head Surgeon at the Kings Highway Division

July 17, 2006: Heart Failure Specialist Joins as the Director of Beth Israel's Heart Institute

July 2006: Beth Israel Appoints New Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

May 2, 2006: Using Nature to "Fight Back" on the Irritants Nature Brings During Spring

April 17, 2006: Beth Israel Medical Center's Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care is Honored with an Endowment

 

St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals
2010
January 11, 2010: Continuum Health Partners and its Member Hospitals and Affiliated Physicians Face Possible Termination from Insurance Plans Sponsored by United HealthCare - Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of New Yorkers

2009
November 25, 2009: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Beth Israel Medical Center Win Federal Grant To Aid Local Children And Families

November 18, 2009: Patients Get ‘Beautified’ During Beauty Day at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital

November 4, 2009: Roosevelt Hospital's Headache Institute Launches Unique Adolescent Headache Medicine Program

November 2, 2009: Bruce W. Polsky, MD, Named Chairman of Medicine at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals

October 21, 2009: Lamaze Connections at SLR Continue Long After Babies are Born

October 21, 2009: Matthew Lederman, MD, Joins The Continuum Reproductive Center of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

October 14, 2009: Gregory J. Calliste Appointed Chief Administrative Officer at St. Luke's Hospital

September 15, 2009: Matthew Lederman, MD Joins the Continuum Reproductive Center of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital

July 13, 2009: Microbial Sealant Now Being Used at Roosevelt Hospital To
Protect Women Against Potential Infection Related to C-Section and Gyn Surgeries

May 26, 2009: Roosevelt Hospital Honored for High Rate of Organ Donation

May 11, 2009: Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospitals Honor Their Nurses During Nurse Recognition Week

March 27, 2009: “The NiteStar Program 'Shines' as a National Model for Health Education and Prevention”

March 12, 2009: Roosevelt Hospital’s Free Educational Event: Relief From Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Finding Your Way Through Treatment Options

March 12, 2009: Roosevelt Hospital Surgeon Looks to “Straighten Out” Manhattan’s West Side

2008
December 9, 2008: Dr. Farrokh Shahrivar Named Chairman of Pediatrics at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

October 8, 2008: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister – and Not Lose Yourself

September 17, 2008: The James P. Mara Center for Lung Disease at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
Center Receives $2 Million Grant from the Carson Family Charitable Trust

September 5, 2008: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Among the First To Offer
Single Port Surgery for Weight Loss Surgery Patients, Leaving No Visible Scarring

July 18, 2008: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister – and Not Lose Yourself
New Guide Examines the Pain, Sadness & Sense of Loss and Anger Siblings Can Experience
When a Brother or Sister Becomes an Addict

June 12, 2008: Prominent Cancer Physician, Gabriel Sara, MD, Joins St. Luke's-Roosevelt

June 5, 2008: Timothy G. Day Named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at SLR

April 30, 2008: SLR Supports the Alpha-1 Foundation in First Annual George Washington Bridge Walk for Lung Disease

January 28, 2008: SLR Performs First Visually Guided Laser Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Northeast

2007
November 28, 2007: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Vascular Surgeon Wins Network Journal Magazine Award

August 29, 2007: St. Luke’s – Roosevelt’s New Simulation Lab Teaches Advanced Emergency Life Saving Skills

June 2007: The Diabetes in Pregnancy Program

March 30, 2007: Gregory B. Braca of Commerce Bank and Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D., to Be Honored at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Tenth Annual Gala

March 28, 2007: Figure Skating Icon and Olympic Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming to be Featured Speaker at SLR Breast Service Luncheon

March 20, 2007: A "Pea" In The Pod:New Medical Device to Test Body Fat in Newborns

March 9, 2007: Roosevelt Hospital Offers New Minimally Invasive Surgery for Patients with Spinal Stenosis

January 29, 2007: Prominent Heart Electrophysiologist Joins St. Luke's-Roosevelt as Director

2006
December 8, 2006: The Continuum Reproductive Center at Roosevelt Hospital Expands to Include a State-Of-The-Art In-Vitro Fertilization Lab to Provide Complete Fertility Care Under One Roof

November 29, 2006: Got Inexpensive Contrast Agent? Milk Plays New Role in Imaging

March 27, 2006: St. Luke's - Roosevelt Strenghtens Cardiology Department qith Two Highly Respected Hires

March 1, 2006: The Kidney Transplant Program at St. Luke's Hospital Provides Clinical Continuity, Intimate, Patient-Centered Care – And The Support of A Major Academic Medical Center

March 2006: St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center Investigating Unique Treatment for Heart Failure

 

Long Island College Hospital of Brooklyn
2010
January 11, 2010: Continuum Health Partners and its Member Hospitals and Affiliated Physicians Face Possible Termination from Insurance Plans Sponsored by United HealthCare - Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of New Yorkers

2008
August 28, 2008: Keeping Patients Healthy, Happy …Home: Cobble Hill Health Center Helps LICH Celebrate 150th

February 11, 2008: Kecia Gaither, MD, MPH, Appointed Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

February 5, 2008: 8th Annual Butson Nursing Award Winners at Long Island College Hospital

February 1, 2008: LICH Goes Red for Women: Free event February, 1, 2008

January 2, 2008: The Holiday Spirit, So Many Ways to Give

2007
November 30, 2007: The English Patient

June 12, 2007: LICH Honors It's Volunteers

February 2, 2007: What You Didn't Know About Women and Heart Disease

 

Continuum Health Partners
2010
January 11, 2010: Continuum Health Partners and its Member Hospitals and Affiliated Physicians Face Possible Termination from Insurance Plans Sponsored by United HealthCare - Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of New Yorkers

2009
July 28, 2009: Several Continuum Health Partners Physicians Certified By New Addiction Medicine Board

2008
September15, 2008: What Does Your Hospital ID Bracelet Say About You?” Hospitals in the Continuum Health Partners Network Participate in “The Colors of Safety Across the Continuum of Care” Initiative

February 2008: Marvin A. Russell Named Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer for Continuum Health Partners

2007
June 18, 2007: Continuum Hospice Care Uses The Power of the Internet To Help The Bereaved

2006
October 26, 2006: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt Named 2006 "Rabbi of the Year"

September 5, 2006: Continuum Health Partners Appoints John J. Collura as New Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer

July 5, 2006: The Continuum Center for Health and Healing to Study an Integrative Medicine Approach In Treating Adult Asthma Sufferers