For women, a high-flying opportunity

Michelle Judice parlayed a love of flying into a second career in aviation as executive director of Westchester Aviation Association (WAA) and president of the new Westchester County chapter of Women in Aviation International (WAI).

Illuminating health care on the front lines

If Covid-19 underscored many of the problems in our society, it also spotlighted many of its strengths, including the dedication of health care workers.
“It highlighted the value that nursing brings to health care,” says Mary McDermott, senior vice president, patient care services and chief nursing officer at Phelps Hospital, Northwell Health in Sleepy Hollow.

New innovations in brain and heart surgery at Westchester Medical Center

You know how people say, Well, it’s not brain surgery. For Simon Hanft, M.D., it really is. A “Heart-in-a-Box”: Sounds like the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, no? It is a gift, all right, but one of a different, life-saving kind that can ease the process and increase the number of successful heart transplants. And Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla – one of seven heart transplant centers in New York state – is the first to make use of it.

The latest jewel in White Plains Hospital’s crown

In June, White Plains Hospital’s sleek, new Center for Advanced Medicine & Surgery (CAMS) opened, bringing together outpatient services with many of the hospital’s top specialists. Recently, Frances Bordoni – the hospital’s senior vice president of ambulatory and physician services and business development – took time to answer some of our questions about the new space and how it fits into the scheme of the hospital’s development.

A restaurant returns

Few industries have been hit harder by Covid than the restaurant business. So whenever one reemerges we’re delighted to pass along the heartening news….