Press Releases

Beth Israel Medical Center
St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals
Long Island College Hospital of Brooklyn
Continuum Health Partners, Inc.

Beth Israel
2008
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

July 31, 2007: Beth Israel Hires Patient Navigators To Support Jewish Community

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

May 16, 2007: Yehuda Center Opens at Beth Israel-Kings Highway Division

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

March 27, 2007: Martin S. Karpeh, Jr., MD, Named Chairman of Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center

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
2008
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
2008
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
2008
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