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Westchester Medical Center University Hospital (WMC), formerly Grasslands Hospital, is an 895-bed Regional Trauma Center [1] providing health services to residents of the Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, and southern Connecticut. It is known for having one of the highest case mix index rates of all hospitals in the United States.
Hudson Valley Hospital was first founded in 1889 by the Helping Hands Association in the City of Peekskill after a group of women raised $1,800 to purchase property on lower South Street. [ 2 ] The hospital was known as the Helping Hand Hospital until 1911 when it was incorporated as Peekskill Hospital.
The hospital is home to the region's only state-of-the-art, 24-hour "no wait" emergency department, which sees more than 39,000 visits per year. In 2011, the Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Cancer Center opened, offering the first comprehensive cancer center in the area, combining infusion, radiation therapy and support services all under one roof.
Kartik Prabhakaran is head of Westchester Medical Center's Level 1 trauma center, the only one of its kind in the Hudson Valley. He said motorcycle accidents tend to happen more frequently from ...
In 2019, WCHN merged with Health Quest, a chain of hospitals mostly in the Hudson Valley, to become Nuvance Health. In addition to the three hospitals, Western Connecticut Health Network included: an integrated physician practice; an agency for home care and community health services; a full-service retail pharmacy located at Danbury Hospital
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The Dyson Center for Cancer Care is a full-service cancer treatment and support center, the only of its kind in the Mid-Hudson Valley. The Dyson Center at VBMC is affiliated with the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project [7] and conducts clinical research with assistance from the National Cancer Institute and the Community ...
Nuvance Health is an American not-for-profit health system with facilities spanning from New York State's Hudson Valley region to western Connecticut.Nuvance Health was formed in 2019 when Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network merged.