Putnam Hospital Center President Gives State of the Hospital Community Breakfast
From left top: Joseph DeMarzo, Putnam County’s Deputy Commissioner of Social Services, Mental Health and the Youth Bureau, Joseph DeMarzo; Putnam County Department of Health’s Director of Health Education and Communications, Barbara Ilardi; Putnam Hospital Center President Peter Kelly and Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell.
MAHOPAC, N.Y. – Putnam Hospital Center President Peter Kelly met with Putnam residents, leaders and elected officials Thursday morning at the Putnam County Golf Course for his second annual State of the Hospital Community Breakfast.
More than 60 community members attended the event to hear updates from Kelly on Putnam Hospital Center and its parent organization, Health Quest.
“As a major provider of healthcare and employment in Putnam County, it’s important to keep all of the various agencies we work with and constituents we serve well informed about our continuing progress,” Kelly said.
The presentation highlighted growing service lines, including the addition of three cardiologists from The Heart Center, a division of Hudson Valley Cardiovascular Practice, PC, an affiliate of Health Quest, as well as Putnam Hospital Center’s recent accreditation as a comprehensive bariatrics center. New procedures, including total knee replacements using the Mako robot and craniotomies, are now being performed at Putnam Hospital Center.
Kelly spoke of the $9 million Emergency Department expansion project that will add 8,400 square feet to the existing facility, as well as the addition of 11 private treatment rooms and separate ambulance and pedestrian entrances. More than 27,000 patients are seen in the Emergency Department annually.
Kelly concluded the breakfast with updates from the Health Quest system, including the addition of a graduate education program for medical residents that will launch in 2019. Psychiatry residents are expected to intern at Putnam Hospital Center starting in 2020. He also shared the recent announcement of plans to combine Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) to form a new health system that will provide residents across New York’s Hudson Valley and western Connecticut with more convenient, accessible, affordable care close to home.
