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Staffing News

DANBURY HOSPITAL

Thomas Danyliw, MD, medical director and chief operating officer of Danbury

Health Care Affiliates, was recently appointed as a certified medical review

officer by the Medical Review Officer Certification Council.

Sharon Gallagher has been appointed to the position of business

coordinator/systems administrator at the Main Street Physical Rehabilitation

Center, 235 Main Street, Danbury.

Mary MacKrell, RN, BSCN, OCN, MED, recently joined the hospital's Cancer

Center as a clinical nursing specialist. She will split her time between the

hospital and the Danbury Visiting Nurse Association.

Patrick C. Malloy, MD, has joined the hospital's department of radiology as an

attending radiologist.

Gerard D. Robilotti, FACHE, executive vice president of Danbury Health

Systems, was re-certified as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare

Executives, an international professional society representing more than

30,000 healthcare executives.

HALL-BROOKE HOSPITAL

Elizabeth M. Keene, MD, was appointed as staff psychiatrist of the Adult

Inpatient Unit of Hall-Brooke Hospital in Westport. Prior to this appointment,

she was a psychiatrist with the United States Air Force.

HOSPICE

Natalie Farrar, RN, was selected by the Western Connecticut Unit of the

American Cancer Society to be its special honoree at the Fifth Annual Spring

Charity Ball. She received this honor because of her exemplary contributions

both personally and professionally in her role as a hospice nurse.

Regional Hospice Medical Director Robert Kloss, MD, has become board certified

in the practice of hospice and palliative medicine.

OSTEOPOROSIS CENTER

David H. Trock, MD, was appointed medical director at the Osteoporosis Center

of Western Connecticut. He is also chief of rheumatology at Danbury Hospital.

Recently, the center was relocated from Danbury Hospital to 41 Germantown

Road, Danbury.

RIDGEFIELD PRIMARY CARE

Simon O'Regan , MD, was appointed as a family physician by Ridgefield Primary

Care, 10 South Street, Ridgefield, and is accepting new patients.

WESTERN CONNECTICUT CARDIAC CENTER

Harvey M. Kramer, MD, member of the Western Connecticut Cardiac Center, an

affiliate of Danbury Hospital, and the Danbury Office of Physicians Services,

was recently appointed to serve on the Governor's Committee on Physical

Fitness.

OTHER FACILITIES

American Cancer Society's Danbury Chapter recently honored Newtown resident

Lilla Dean for 23 years as a teacher of oncology nursing students at Western

Connecticut State University.

Lalaine Mortera, MD, has joined the practice of Newtown physician Thomas

Draper, MD, Mt Pleasant Road (Route 6), Newtown.

OTHER NEWS

AT&T has donated $100,000 to the University of Connecticut Health Center to

establish a pediatric cancer research fund. The donation will be matched by

state funds, making a total of $200,000 for the fund. The new endowment will

sponsor research into the causes and cures of pediatric cancer.

Bridgeport Hospital has received the John D. Thompson Award for Healthcare

Excellence from the Connecticut Hospital Association for developing a

comprehensive program that has dramatically improved the quality of care for

critically ill patients.

The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer recently reconfirmed the

"approved" status of Danbury Hospital's Cancer Center for high quality

standards, a designation shared by about 1,400 hospitals in the US with

outstanding cancer programs. Danbury Hospital is the Western Connecticut

Affiliate of the Yale Cancer Center.

Danbury Hospital's Mammography Department has received the highest "no

findings" rating (every area was in compliance) in a national inspection by

the Federal Food & Drug Administration.

Danbury Hospital Vascular Laboratory was recently accredited by the

Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories, a

non-profit organization that recognizes quality testing of vascular diseases.

Greenwich Health Care Systems, the parent corporation for the Greenwich

Hospital, and Yale New Haven Health Systems announced an agreement to form a

strategic alliance. Under the proposed affiliation agreement, Greenwich

Hospital will preserve its local direction while gaining improved access to

high quality clinical support for its key programs.

INFOLINE received a grant from the Connecticut Department of Public Health,

which will provide for a pilot program in suicide prevention at Connecticut

universities. The grant will allow INFOLINE staff to conduct a total of 10

half-day workshops between now and September.

KiDS of NYU annual Stars&Magic benefit this spring netted $318,000 which will

benefit children's services at NYU Medical Center.

Multiple Sclerosis Association of America has approved a $300,000 grant to

Energy Medicine Developments, Inc, of Vancouver, BC, for a double-blind,

multi-site clinical trial of an innovative therapy for multiple sclerosis. The

clinical trial will further examine the use of low-level electromagnetic

fields in the treatment of MS symptoms.

New Milford Hospital Ultrasound Facility has been awarded an accreditation in

ultrasound as a result of a recent survey by the American College of

Radiology. The accreditation is awarded to an ultrasound practice for the

achievement of high practice standards after a voluntary evaluation of its

facility.

Pasteur Merieux Connaught (Rhone-Poulenc Group) plans to submit a Product

License Application for its candidate Lyme disease vaccine to the US Food and

Drug Administration.

Southern Connecticut Health System, the parent company of Bridgeport Hospital,

and United Home Care, the state's third largest non-profit provider of home

care services, finalized a strategic alliance which adds home healthcare

capabilities to SCHS. With the alliance, United Home Care becomes an affiliate

of SCHS and through that relationship an affiliate of Yale New Haven Health.

Four professors have been appointed endowed chair holders at the University of

Connecticut Health Center. They are Andrew Murray-Heilig, MD, Professor of

Molecular Medicine; Thomas Babor, PhD, MPH, physicians health services chair

in Community Medicine and Public Health; David S. Papermaster, MD, John and

Florence Mattern Solomon chair in Vision Biology and Eye Diseases; and Pramod

Srivastava, PhD, public health services chair in Cancer Immunology.