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HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley Exploring Campus Changes in Kingston to Improve Efficiency

Kingston, N.Y. – May 4, 2012 – In the face of ongoing financial challenges, HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is evaluating options necessary to reduce expenses and improve efficiency, including actively pursuing a single campus alternative in Kingston. The proposed changes will not affect the high quality of [...]

HealthAlliance’s Dialysis Center Recognized as a “Five-Diamond” Patient Safety Program

Kingston, N.Y. – May 9, 2012 – The HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley Dialysis Center was recently recognized by the End Stage Renal Disease Network of New York for demonstrating best practices in patient safety, achieving the highest level in the Network’s "Five-Diamond Approach" patient safety program. The D [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® Hosting Teddy Bear Clinics for Local Students

Kingston, N.Y., – April 25, 2012 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is hosting a series of Teddy Bear Clinics for local elementary school students in its Kingston Hospital campus’ Emergency Department. The clinics are sponsored jointly by HealthAlliance, The Kingston Hospital Foundation and Emergency Medical Associates. [...]

HAHV Recognizes Outstanding Social Worker, Elise Lark and Honorary Social Worker, Allen Nace

Kingston, N.Y., – April 20, 2012 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® recently recognized Elise Lark, LCSW with its third annual HealthAlliance Social Worker of the Year Award and Allen Nace, LMHC, CASAC, CCCJS with an Honorary Social Worker award. Ms. Lark is a social worker with the Benedictine Hospital campus’ Oncology Su [...]

Two HealthAlliance Employees Become Certified Language Interpreters

Kingston, N.Y. – March 22, 2012 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce that Radiology Manager Lowell Fley and Unit Clerk Eduardo Porras from its Benedictine Hospital campus have become its first two certified staff interpreters. Fley and Porras completed a training program at Dutchess C [...]

The Kingston Hospital Foundation Announces 23rd Annual Tulip Ball

Kingston, N.Y., – March 22, 2012 –The Kingston Hospital Foundation’s 23^rd Annual Tulip Ball will be held on Saturday, April 28 at 6 p.m. at the Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern in Saugerties, N.Y. This year’s honoree is Thomas A. Collins, chairman of the Kingston Hospital Board of Trustees. Patricia and Paul Johnso [...]

HealthAlliance Now Offers Weight Management Program

Kingston, N.Y., – March 20, 2012 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is now offering a comprehensive outpatient weight management program through individualized counseling and classes at the Diabetes Education Center, at 37 Albany Avenue in Kingston. Patients work with HealthAlliance’s Registered Dietitians certified by [...]

HealthAlliance’s Parrish Receives EMS Educator of Excellence Award

Kingston, N.Y., – March 16, 2012 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce that its Director of Safety and Emergency Management Richard Parrish, NREMT-P, HEM, CIC was named the latest recipient of the annual Emergency Management Services Educator of Excellence Award by the New York State EMS Council. Mr. Parr [...]

HealthAlliance Using New System to Help Improve Heart Attack Patient Outcomes

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is using a new technological system to help improve heart attack patient outcomes. The LIFENET System, from Physio-Control, Inc., is the first web-based data network that provides emergency medical services and hospital teams with a new tool to improve clinical and operational efficiencies. HealthA [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® Elects Unified Set of Medical Officers and Physician Department Chairs for 2012

Kingston, N.Y., – Feb. 10, 2012 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce that the medical staffs of Benedictine Hospital and Kingston Hospital have elected a unified set of medical officers and physician department chairs. The new officers are Martin Cascio, M.D., President; Mark Josefski, M.D., Vice Pres [...]

HealthAlliance Now Offers Medical Nutrition Therapy

Kingston, N.Y., – Jan. 6, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®’s Dialysis and Diabetes Education Center is now providing outpatient Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT). MNT consists of evidence-based diagnostic, counseling and therapeutic services, designed to help CKD patients learn to balan [...]

HealthAlliance Receives Honor for Improving Emergency Room Wait Times

Kingston, N.Y., – Dec. 15, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is pleased to announce that it received Honorable Mention for the 2011 The Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association Quality and Patient Safety Award in the Hospital Division or Unit category for its “30 Minute Arrival to Provider” program in a ceremony on [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®’s Center for Breast Health Officially Opens

Kingston, N.Y., – Dec. 5, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce that the new consolidated Fern Feldman Anolick Center for Breast Health in the Thomas A. Dee Cancer Center at Benedictine Hospital is now open to patients. The new location combines services provided by the existing Fern Feldman Anolick [...]

Kingston Hospital Re-Awarded Accreditation from the Joint Commission

Kingston, N.Y., – Dec. 5, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce that its Kingston Hospital campus has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for hospital accreditation by demonstrating continued compliance with The Joint Commission’s state-of-the-art national standards for health [...]

HealthAlliance Partners with Mobile Life Support Services in “Toys-for-Tots” Program

Kingston, N.Y., – Nov. 30, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is proud to partner with Mobile Life Support Services to support the United States Marine Corps Toys-for-Tots program, and to help provide toys to many needy children for the Holidays. Drop boxes are located in the main lobbies of both Benedictine and King [...]

Kingston Lions Club Foundation Supports New Infusion Therapy Center at Benedictine Hospital

Kingston, N.Y. – Nov. 14, 2011 – The Kingston Lions Club Foundation recently donated $1,500 to the Benedictine Health Foundation to purchase a new recliner for the new Infusion Therapy Center located on the Benedictine Hospital campus, which opened in October 2011. The new Center offers services such as: chemotherapy, IV t [...]

Benedictine Health Foundation Honors St. Benedict Award Recipients

The Benedictine Health Foundation will hold its 42^nd annual Winter’s Eve Gala to honor 2011 St. Benedict Award recipients, Phyllis Parikh and Marc A. Tack, D.O. The celebration will take place on Friday, December 9^th, at the new Diamond Mills Hotel and Tavern located in Saugerties, N.Y. The St. Benedict [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® First in New York to Receive Breast Cancer Care “Gold Seal of Approval”

Kingston, N.Y., – Oct. 25, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for their Breast Cancer Care program. The program is the first in New York State and sixth in the nation to receive the certification, which recognizes dedication to continuous compliance with The J [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® to Observe National Healthcare Quality Week Oct. 17 to 21

Kingston, N.Y. – Oct. 13, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce its participation in National Healthcare Quality Week from Oct. 17 to 21. The week highlights the influence of healthcare quality professionals in achieving improved patient care outcomes and healthcare delivery systems. The National Ass [...]

Autumn Garden Party to Benefit Helen & Amos Newcombe Intensive Care Unit and the Linda Young Ovarian Cancer Support Center at HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley

Kingston, N.Y., – Sept 15, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce an Autumn Garden Party benefiting the newly renovated Helen & Amos Newcombe Intensive Care Unit at Kingston Hospital and the Linda Young Ovarian Cancer Support Program at Benedictine Hospital. The Autumn Garden Party will be held fr [...]

Eighth Annual “Bike for Cancer Care” Supports Cancer Fund

Kingston, N.Y. – Sept. 9, 2011 – The Benedictine Health Foundation will hold the 8^th Annual Bike for Cancer Care on Sunday, September 18, 2011, to support the Rosemary D. Gruner Memorial Cancer Fund. The event will start and finish at Dietz Stadium in Kingston [...]

HealthAlliance Offers New Vascular Treatment Option For Dialysis Patients

Kingston, N.Y., – Aug. 8, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is pleased to announce its adoption of a novel device for hemodialysis patients whose central venous systems cannot support a traditional fistula or graft. The HERO® Vascular Access Device, produced since 2008 by Hemosphere, Inc., has been used successfully on [...]

First Incisionless Surgery to Treat Reflux in Ulster County Offered by HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®

Kingston, N.Y. – July 26, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce the availability of a new, incisionless procedure called Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF) to treat Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). The procedure is an effective solution for patients who traditionally would need invasi [...]

Dropping Body Temperature Raises Odds of Survival for Kingston Hospital’s Cardiac Arrest Patients

Kingston, N.Y., – July 5, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce its use of hypothermic resuscitation for cardiac arrest patients at its Kingston Hospital campus Emergency Department and accredited Chest Pain Center. The new protocol is clinically proven to improve survival rates while reducing the da [...]

Kingston Hospital’s Hyperbaric Oxygen Center Receives Accreditation from Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society

Kingston, N.Y., – July 6, 2011 - The Hyperbaric Oxygen Center at HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®’s Kingston Hospital campus has been accredited by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), the leading authority in Hyperbaric Medicine. Kingston Hospital is one of only six hospitals in the state to earn this accred [...]

Dr. Darren Rohan and Dr. Radu Constantine to Join Hudson Valley Surgical Specialists

Kingston, N.Y., – June 20, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley^® is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Darren Rohan as Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Dr. Radu Constantine, FACS as Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery. They will work at HealthAlliance’s Benedictine and Kingston Hospital campuses as member [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®’s Kingston Hospital Campus Renews Chest Pain Center Accreditation

Kingston, N.Y., – June 7, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®’s Kingston Hospital campus received full Chest Pain Center Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) on May 18. The honor marks the fourth consecutive year of Kingston Hospital having the Hudson Valley’s only Accredited C [...]

The Kingston Hospital Foundation Announces Scholarship Winners

Kingston, N.Y., – June 7, 2011 –The Kingston Hospital Foundation is pleased to announce its Foundation scholarship winners for 2011. Conner Hicks is the recipient of The Kingston Hospital Foundation’s Healthcare Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 a year for four years. Conner is a senior at Saugerties High School and will [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley®’s Family Birth Place Celebrates Second Anniversary

Kingston, N.Y., – June 1, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® will observe the second anniversary of The Family Birth Place at its Kingston Hospital campus on June 4. The department was formed after the alignment of Benedictine and Kingston Hospitals through HealthAlliance in 2009 combined duplicated services between the [...]

On the Move: Two HealthAlliance Employees Honored by United Way

Kingston, N.Y. – Apr. 14, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce that two of its employees were honored by the United Way of Ulster County at a ceremony [...]

HealthAlliance Names Thayer Case Social Worker of the Year

Kingston, N.Y. – March 22, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® presented Thayer Case, LMSW with the second annual HealthAlliance Social Worker of the Year Award. Mr. Case is a social worker on the Mountainside Residential Care Center campus. In honor of Social Worker Month, HealthAlliance recognizes a social worker who b [...]

Kingston Hospital Foundation Announces 22nd Annual Tulip Ball

Kingston, N.Y., – Mar. 3, 2011 – The Kingston Hospital Foundation will hold its 2011 Tulip Ball on April 30^th at 6 p.m., at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston, NY. The event’s honoree is Dr. Donald C. Katt, President of SUNY-Ulster in Stone Ridge. Dennis M. Larios will receive the 6^th annual Lifetime Achieveme [...]

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® Chooses Cyracom, LLC for Patient and Document Translation

Kingston, N.Y. – Feb. 21, 2011 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley® is pleased to announce it is retaining the healthcare translation services of Cyracom, LLC. The company is exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Foundation for translating patient/provider conversations and medical documents in over 150 languages. The [...]

HealthAlliance Helps Seniors Continue to Live Independently with the Philips Lifeline Medical Alert Service

Kingston, NY – Dec. 10, 2010 – Kingston Hospital has been providing the Lifeline Service to Ulster and Dutchess County for over 20 years. Each holiday season we find that while the holidays are a festive time of year, it is also a stressful time. Families get together during the holidays and realize that their senior loved ones c [...]

HealthAlliance Nurses Receive Designation of Certified Breast Patient Navigator

Kingston, NY – Nov. 3, 2010 – The National Consortium of Breast [...]

Cardinal Health Foundation Awards $25,000 Grant to HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley

Kingston, NY – Oct. 15, 2010 – The Cardinal Health Foundation announced that, for the third consecutive year, it has awarded more than $1 million in grant funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve the efficiency and quality of care. HealthAlliance is one of 40 organizations in 25 states t [...]

Kingston Hospital Receives American Stroke Association’s Stroke Gold Plus Performance Award

Kingston, NY – Sep. 8, 2010 – Kingston Hospital, a member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, has received the 2009 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes HealthAlliance’s commitment and success in implementing [...]

The Family Birth Place Receives Honor

Kingston, NY – Jun. 18, 2010 – The Family Birth Place at Kingston Hospital, member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, received the Certificate of Excellence Award from the NYS Department of Health for their Hepatitis B immunization program. The award recognized efforts to prevent perinatal transmission of the Hepatitis B vir [...]

Consumer Reports gives Kingston Hospital Perfect Rating for Preventing Central-line Infections

Kingston, NY – Jun. 7, 2010 – Consumer Reports gives Kingston Hospital, a member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a perfect rating for preventing central-line infections in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). As stated by Consumer Reports they “collected and compared central-line infection data for intensi [...]

The Family Birth Place is One Year Old

Kingston, NY – Jun. 2, 2010 – The Family Birth Place of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is celebrating its first birthday as the new combined maternity unit of Kingston Hospital and Benedictine Hospital. To celebrate this joyous occasion HealthAlliance is hosting a birthday party on Saturday, June 5^th from 12:30 [...]

Kingston Hospital Lifeline® Program Introduces Breakthrough Medical Alert Service

Kingston, NY – Apr. 29, 2010 – Kingston Hospital Lifeline, member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, introduced the new Lifeline with AutoAlert Service, an enhanced medical alert service. This integrated solution offers an added layer of protection by combining the industry-leading Lifeline medical alert service with automat [...]

The Wound Healing Center at Kingston Hospital Expands Services with New Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Kingston, NY – Aug. 24, 2009 – Today marks the official opening of the new Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) service offered by the Wound Healing Center at Kingston Hospital, member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley™. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) is a medical treatment that increases the amount of oxygen in the patient [...]

Kingston Hospital Performs First Pacemakers Equipped with Wireless Technology in the Hudson Valley

Kingston, NY – Jul. 31, 2009 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley™ is pleased to announce the first pacemaker implementation procedure performed with wireless technology in the Hudson Valley at Kingston Hospital campus. The procedure was performed by Dr. Jeffrey Hatter on July 24^th. A pacemaker is a medical devic [...]

First Delivery at the New Family Birth Place

Kingston, NY – June 9, 2009 – HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is proud to announce the official opening of the new unit “The Family Birth Place” located at Kingston Hospital campus. The Kingston Hospital Birthing Unit closed its door on the third floor and moved the unit to the luxurious state-of-the-art facility to the f [...]

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