National Night Out 2022
Town of Ramapo
Ramapo Town Hall
237 Route 59
Suffern, NY 10901
845-357-5100
www.ramapo.org
Four WMCHealth Hospitals recognized for stroke care excellence
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Cite Westchester Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital, MidHudson Regional Hospital and HealthAlliance Hospital
VALHALLA, NY (August 3, 2022) ― Four Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) hospitals have again been cited by national associations* for stroke care excellence.
Westchester Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital, MidHudson Regional Hospital and HealthAlliance Hospital have each earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for 2022. The award recognizes each hospital for its commitment to, and success in, ensuring stroke patients receive excellent care based on the latest evidence-based scientific guidelines. The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association also appointed each of these hospitals to the Get with the Guidelines Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
Additionally, Westchester Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital attained Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite status from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. To qualify for this recognition, each hospital met quality measures developed to reduce the time between patient arrival at the hospital and treatment with tissue plasminogen activator, or r-tPA, a therapy for for treating ischemic strokes, which are caused by blood clots.
Learn Stroke Signs, Get the Needed Stroke Care
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stroke is a leading cause of death in the United States with about 795,000 people in the United States suffering a stroke each year. WMCHealth encourages the public to learn more about stroke symptoms and to call 911 at once if someone shows signs of a possible stroke. Emergency medical services can be directed to take a stroke patient to the closest awarded WMCHealth hospital for expert care if transport is considered safe for the individual.
WMCHealth Hospitals Collaborate to Provide Timely and Effective Stroke Care
Westchester Medical Center is certified by New York State as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, a designation that represents the most advanced stroke treatment available in a given geographic area*. Also,Good Samaritan Hospital, MidHudson Regional Hospital and HealthAlliance Hospital are all designated by the New York State Department of Health as Primary Stroke Centers.
Recently, WMCHealth began offering a minimally invasive surgical procedure (thrombectomy) at MidHudson Regional Hospital for the safe, fast and effective removal of stroke-causing blood clots.
“Our WMCHealth stroke care teams work in concert for the administration of timely stroke care,” said Ji Chong, MD, a vascular neurologist and Director of Stroke at Westchester Medical Center. Under Dr. Chong’s guidance, the stroke program at Westchester Medical Center now has a stroke specialist caring for each patient 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
“We offer neuroendovascular and other neurointerventional services all day, every day along with around-the-clock neurocritical care, neurosurgery and vascular neurology. In addition, we have expanded our telemedicine services so now colleagues in hospitals both within and outside of the WMCHealth Network can contact us at any time for stroke care consultation,” added Dr. Chong. “A telemedicine consult can save critical minutes during diagnosis and treatment application. This time saving might mean the difference between a full recovery, a lifetime of disability or worse for the patient.”
Additionally, WMCHealth is a community resource for stroke education and prevention. WMCHealth has a long-term Academic Affiliation Agreement with New York Medical College, hosts professional, stroke-centric learning events for clinical specialists and is also active in the community with stroke education.
About Westchester Medical Center Health Network
The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with nine hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 13,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. The Network has Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 trauma centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, Comprehensive and Primary Stroke Centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, home-care services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State. Today, WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated health care in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org or follow WMCHealth on Facebook.com/WMCHealth or Instagram.com/WMCHealth.
Office for Aging postpones Sloatsburg Food Pantry visits
Please note our Outreach visits to Sloatsburg Food Pantry scheduled for August 3rd and 9th have been postponed until further notice.
If you’d like to be notified when Farmers’ Market Coupons are available, please call to be placed on our waiting list: (845) 364-2110.
To be eligible to receive Farmers’ Market Coupons, you must:
a. Be 60 years of age or older;
AND
b. Have a monthly Income at or below : $2,096/month (for a one-person household); Or $2,823/month (for a two-person household); Or $3,551/month (for a three-person household).
YOUTH TENNIS CLASSES OFFERED AT RUSTIC BROOK
Reichlin-Melnick delivers $325,000 for projects in three Western Ramapo villages
RAMAPO, NY – Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick (D-Rockland/Westchester) announced that he has secured $325,000 in state grants for three villages in western Ramapo. The grant funds will be used to improve parks, streamline government technology services, and purchase new sanitation equipment. The grants come through the State and Municipal (SAM) Grants Program.
“The villages of Suffern, Sloatsburg, and Hillburn in Western Ramapo are some of the most beautiful areas of Rockland County. I’m pleased to be able to contribute in a tangible way to improving them,” said Senator Reichlin-Melnick. “I got my start in local government, so I know how important it is to support projects that village residents can enjoy and be proud of for decades to come, and to make sure that our communities are clean and safe.”
The Village of Suffern received a check for $200,000 to purchase a new sanitation truck to make garbage collection more efficient and help keep the village clean. The Village of Hillburn received a check for $75,000 to make repairs to the pond in historic Veterans Memorial Park. The Village of Sloatsburg received a check for $50,000 to go towards new exercise equipment at the village’s community fields and computer and IT upgrades in village hall. The funds that Senator Reichlin-Melnick has delivered help lessen the burden on village taxpayers by having New York State pick up a significant portion of the cost of these projects.
Mayor Michael Curley of Suffern said, “The Village of Suffern would like to thank Senator Reichlin-Melnick for working tirelessly in acquiring these grants for our residents. Together, good government can accomplish great things to make all our lives better, one step at a time.”
Mayor Peter Akey of Sloatsburg said, “The Village of Sloatsburg is extremely excited to be one of the recipients of this generous grant. We have been in the midst of a downtown economic revitalization and now to have the ability to improve our outdoor recreation center is unprecedented. This grant makes it possible for our residents to not only enjoy the community park, but to improve their overall health as well.”
Mayor Joseph P. Tursi of Hillburn said, “Veterans Memorial Park is the centerpiece of our village. Unfortunately, over time the pond liner that was installed back in the 90’s has failed and the pond can no longer hold water. We voiced our concerns to Senator Reichlin-Melnick who understood that our village just doesn’t have the funds to make such an expensive repair. He made every effort possible to procure this grant. On behalf of the village board and the residents of Hillburn, I would like to thank him and we appreciate his steadfastness in assisting in bringing the pond back to life.”