Suffern, N.Y. (May 19) – More than 350 community members – health care administrators, physicians, staff, supporters and friends – attended Good Samaritan Hospital's 31st Annual Spring Ball on May 13, to recognize honorees, raise funds for Good Samaritan and celebrate the Hospital's first full year as a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth). The Spring Ball, held at the Rockleigh, is the Hospital's largest annual fundraising event.
Proceeds from the event will make it possible for Good Samaritan to expand, build and enhance its facilities and services. The funds will help to create a new unit with single patient rooms as well as renovate patient rooms on other units, including bringing in new medical beds. They will also allow the Hospital to treat patients with state-of-the-art Radiation Medicine equipment..
Two distinguished honorees are recognized each year at the Spring Ball. This year's award recipients were Jack Kopnisky, of Sterling National Bank, and Patricia Pollio, M.D., director of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Good Samaritan. Mr. Kopnisky received the Good Samaritan Medal of Honor. He is a passionate volunteer who advocates for the Hospital and for numerous other local and national non-profit organizations. Dr. Pollio received the Sister Joseph Rita Award for Medical Excellence. She has served mothers and daughters in the region for 23 years.
"As a member of WMCHealth, we continue to bring innovation and compassion to our region, so people living throughout the Hudson Valley, and in Rockland County in particular, have access to the finest care close to home," said Mary P. Leahy, M.D., CEO of Bon Secours Charity Health System. "Community support, such as that demonstrated at the Ball, helps ensure that we have the highly skilled clinicians and latest technology to aptly serve our community."
"We are so grateful for our supporters! Their generosity makes a tangible difference in Good Samaritan's ability to provide advanced care here, close to patients' families, friends and homes," said Harold Peterson, chair of the Good Samaritan Foundation.
For more information about supporting WMCHealth or Good Samaritan Hospital and Bon Secours Charity Health System, please call 845.368.5151.
About Good Samaritan Hospital; Bon Secours Charity Health System, a Member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network
BSCHS is comprised of Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY; Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, NY; St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick, NY; a certified home health agency; two long-term care facilities; an assisted living/adult home facility and several other medical programs located throughout the region.
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 10 hospitals on seven campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit
http://www.wmchealth.org/.
Mary P. Leahy, M.D., CEO, Bon Secours Charity Health System, is flanked by Harold J. Peterson, chair, Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation Board of Directors, and Jack Kopnisky, CEO and president, Sterling National Bank (Recipient of the Good Samaritan Hospital Medal of Honor)
Mary P. Leahy, M.D., CEO, Bon Secours Charity Health System (left), with Patricia Pollio, M,D,, director, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tallman OB-GYN, P.C. (Recipient of the Sister Joseph Rita Award for Medical Excellence)