Steven Lansman, MD, PhD, has been named Chair of the Department of Surgery at New York Medical College School of Medicine and Director of the Department of Surgery at Westchester Medical Center. Dr. Lansman had served as interim surgery chair
Read MoreAnybody who watched the Jan. 2 Buffalo Bills-Cincinnati Bengals football game on national television got a firsthand glimpse of the urgency of quickly administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR to someone in cardiac arrest. Seconds after Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin collapsed to
Read MoreThe Putnam County Department of Health recently announced the release of the 2022-2024 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan. The 49-page document, known as the “CHA” and the “CHIP,” is the culmination of a yearlong effort to comprehensively
Read MoreHealth experts raised concerns last week over the discharge of radioactive wastewater that may be dumped into the Hudson River as part of the decommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan. During a Jan. 26 online forum,
Read MoreEvolving Role of Private Industry Both Entices and Unsettles Seniors This column is part of a series on CareMount / Optum and wider local healthcare issues. Sometimes when you write a column – hopefully most of the time – you
Read MoreFor the past 20 years, Richard Killion has counseled countless people out of his Mount Kisco cognitive behavioral therapy practice, dispensing the best advice that he can based on his extensive training. Sometimes the gems of wisdom can even come
Read MoreTests results of the water at a Putnam Valley residential community and summer camp have revealed elevated levels of two PFAS chemicals. Last month, the Board of Directors at Floradan Estates sent two notices to residents, co-signed by their water
Read MoreThis piece is part of a series about Optum/CareMount and local healthcare. It was Dec. 4, 2020, and 264 CareMount shareholders — the healthcare group’s doctors — awoke that morning to a potentially exciting, enriching, and career-altering day they hoped
Read MoreIssue Captures Attention of Local Lawmaker This column is the second installment of a multi-part series about concerns at Optum. Since publishing an in-depth column earlier this month on the vexing issues at Optum Tri-State medical group – the former CareMount/former MKMG
Read MoreTwo weekends before Christmas Michelle Leyva saw her son Jaycee thriving, a typically active two-year-old with an abundance of energy. He played soccer on Saturday, took his tumbling class on Sunday and the family, like countless others, was looking forward
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