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Beth Israel
2010
August 6, 2010: Kavita Mariwalla, M.D., Named Director of Mohs and Dermatologic Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center

August 4, 2010:  The Betty and Morton Yarmon Stroke Center at Beth Israel Medical Center Recognized by the American Heart Association for Implementing Quality Heart Disease and Stroke Care

August 3, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center Hosts Official Ribbon-Cutting for Beth Israel Senior Health, a geriatric practice formerly run by St. Vincent’s

August 2, 2010: Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine Announces 2010 What A Wonderful World Award Honorees; Jazz music legend Dave Brubeck among recipients

July 22, 2010: Continuum Health Partners Named Among the Nation’s “Most Wired” Health Systems

July 20, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center Named in “Best Hospitals” Issue of U.S. News & World Report

July 19, 2010: Relocation of Ophthalmology Practice

July 15, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center Receives Third Pinnacle Award for Infection Prevention

July 14, 2010: Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West Side Campus Officially Opens In Chelsea

July 14, 2010: Donald M. Kastenbaum, MD, Appointed Vice President of Perioperative Services at Beth Israel

June 29, 2010: Dr. Debra Parisi Talks about Controlling Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

June 21, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center is the First to Offer Bronchial Thermoplasty Non-Drug Treatment for Adults With Severe Asthma in the Tri-State Area

June 11, 2010: Acupuncture Fellowship Program at Beth Israel Medical Center Integrates Acupuncture into Inpatient Care Across Hospital Specialties

June 7, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center Receives Perfect Score On Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality by Human Rights Campaign Foundation

June 3, 2010: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing Honors Graduate and Former Dean

June 2, 2010: Sale of Jacob Perlow Hospice Finalized

May 28, 2010: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing Names Playwright Sheila Roher as 2010 Artist-in-Residence

May 26, 2010: Walter J. Molofsky, M.D., Chief of Pediatric Neurology at Beth Israel Medical Center to be Honored at the Needler's Foundation's Annual Gala

May 25, 2010: Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing Honors Class Goes on Learning Expedition to the Dominican Republic

May 24, 2010: Beth Israel Nurses Win City-Wide 1199SEIU/League and Beatrice Renfield Circle of Excellence Awards

May 24, 2010: Physicians from Beth Israel Medical Center Conduct Study Measuring the Effect of Over-the-Counter Nutritional Supplement Creatine on Kidney Function

May 12, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center Opens The Institute for Head, Neck and Thyroid Cancer in White Plains, NY

April 19, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center’s 24/7 Walk-In Primary Care Facility in Chelsea
Meeting the Healthcare Needs of Area Residents

April 15, 2010: Beth Israel Medical Center Appoints Internationally Renowned
Gastroenterologist, Dr. David Carr-Locke, as Chief of Digestive Diseases

April 13, 2010: Emmy and Tony Award Winning Actress Cynthia Nixon to be Keynote Speaker at Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Breast Service Luncheon

March 29, 2010: New York City Workforce Investment Board Elects Kathleen Kearns as New Chairperson

March 25, 2010: Harris M. Nagler, MD, Appointed President of Beth Israel Medical Center

March 23, 2010: Platelet-rich Plasma Therapy Offers Promising Treatment for Sports-related Injuries

March 19, 2010: COJO of Flatbush Honors Beth Israel’s Rhona Hetsrony

March 15, 2010: Beth Israel Appoints New Prominent Thoracic Hematologist/Oncologist

March 2, 2010: Phillips Beth Israel Nursing Student Saves Subway Rider's Life

March 1, 2010: One Out Of Three Women Suffer From Stress Urinary Incontinence
New Outpatient Treatment at Beth Israel Medical Center Offers Options and Helps
Restore Continence and Quality of Life

February 8, 2010: Beth Israel-Kings Highway Division Welcomes Nursing Director Lisa Cohen, RN, MA

January 25, 2010: Dr. Roberta Lee, Beth Israel’s Vice Chair of Integrative Medicine, authors The SuperStress Solution

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
December 16, 2009: Roosevelt Hospital's Headache Institute Launches Unique Adolescent Headache Medicine Program

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 28, 2009: Beth Israel's Mirken Department of Neurology Received $475,000 Grant to Establish The Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia Center of Excellence

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

St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals
2010

August 18, 2010: Back to School Tip for Children with Migraine

August 13, 2010: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Expands HIV-Focused Center for Comprehensive Care to Manhattan’s West Village

August 6, 2010: Kavita Mariwalla, M.D., Named Director of Mohs and Dermatologic Surgery at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

July 21, 2010: Osteoporosis: The Culprit Behind More Than 1.5 Million Bone Fractures Annually

July 16, 2010: Two more Dr. Gabriel Sara’s cancer patients wins a Canadian cruise and a Berkshire getaway with “Laura’s Journeys”

June 22, 2010: Dr. Lawrence Newman Talks about Summertime Headaches, Tips for Migraine Sufferers

June 14, 2010: Roosevelt Hospital Among The First To Provide ADIANA® Permanent Contraception System for Women

June 8, 2010: Dr. Petros Levounis, Director of the Addiction Institute of New York at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Authors Clinical Guide on Motivation and Change

April 27, 2010: Gerard M. Turino, MD to be Honored at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Thirteenth Annual Gala

April 13, 2010: Emmy and Tony Award Winning Actress Cynthia Nixon to be Keynote Speaker at Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Breast Service Luncheon

April 12, 2010: Cancer Patient at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Wins Vacation from "Laura's Journeys"

March 24, 2010: Cancer Patient from St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center Wins Greece Vacation Giveaway from Laura's Journeys"

March 24, 2010: St. Luke's Hospital to Open Primary Care Doctors Office in Harlem

March 8, 2010: St. Luke’s - Roosevelt Appoints New Section Chief
Of Breast Imaging in Radiology Department

March 1, 2010: The Addiction Institute of New York at St. Luke’s & Roosevelt Hospitals to
Host the 2010 Addiction Conference on March 5

February 18, 2010: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital’s Bariatric Surgery Program Reaccredited by The American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network

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
December 22, 2009: Richard L. Whelan, MD Appointed Chief of Colorectal Surgery and Director of
Surgical Oncology for Continuum Cancer Centers of New York

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: "Laura's Journeys" Gives Away First Trips To Cancer Patients 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

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

Continuum Health Partners
2010
August 24, 2010: Continuum Health Partners Teams Up With AOL For The “AOL Health Experts” Project

August 2, 2010: New York Walk-In Medical Group Opens Physician-Led “Doctor On Premise” Duane Read Union Square location Affiliated with Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital

July 28, 2010: Aetna and Continuum Health Partners Announce New Network Agreement

July 14, 2010: Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West Side Campus Officially Opens In Chelsea

July 13, 2010: Continuum Health Partners Shows Its “Pride” At The 41st Annual NYC Pride Parade

June 2, 2010: Sale of Jacob Perlow Hospice Finalized

April 19, 2010: Memo from Continuum President/CEO re: Update on Activities Related to St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center

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