March 18th 2011 Friday Noon, Recreation Building, Briarcliff Manor NY ROTARY CLUB
TODAY IN HISTORY
1931 - Schick, Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
MEETING LEADER Julio Salazar
PLEDGE Sy Yuter PATRIOTIC SONG Sy Yuter PRAYER Dean Dykeman
HAPPY THOUGHTS: Sy - Holiday in St. Martin; Keith Safian - Happy to be back; Julio - good weather; Mark Seiden - article in NY Times; Ken - family safe; Bishop John vows he is not going to win the raffle (but did).
SPEAKER AND SUBJECT - Keith Safian, President and CEO of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, speaks on the hospital and the future of health care.
SUMMARY OF TALK
Phelps Memorial Hospital Center was founded in Sleepy Hollow, New York by the families of the Rockefellers, Phelps, Dodge and the James Foundation. The first patients were admitted in 1956. The 1600 members of the hospital staff operate a vital, vibrant, not for profit full service hospital. The hospital is fully computerized, especially concerning medicines.
Phelps is affiliated with Mt. Sinai Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They have a state of the art Hyperbaric Chamber which deals with wound healing, temperature exposures, carbon monoxide exposure and smoke inhalation. They have a new state of the art Emergency Department with 32 private rooms and are also classified as a New York State Stroke Center with specialty physicians. Phelps has ambulatory care and hospice care on the premises as well as excellent rehabilitation services. Phelps has begun to have medical students come and have their first hands on learning experiences with patient care. Phelps has also been training physicians from other countries. Phelps is beginning the process of becoming a teaching hospital by 2012. In three words --- Phelps is tops. We are lucky to have it in our backyard.
Picture of Speaker drawing a winning ticket from Dean Dykeman's basket
And the winner is: ?????
Elinor Yuter, Reporter
Rachel Leihbacher, E-xpediter
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