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Westchester Medical Group to consolidate at new HQ, add staff

Jerry Gleeson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:19:25 +0000

The Westchester Medical Group said it will consolidate administrative offices at 32,000 square feet of space at 2700 Westchester Ave. in Purchase by the end of September. It will add 40 to 50 more employees at the site over the next 18 months.
Chief Financial Officer Clark Yoder said the group was moving administrative offices out of the third floor of 210 Westchester Ave. in Harrison, to accommodate more clinical practice there.
The new offices also will draw staff from two other offices in central Westchester. The medical group will consolidate billing, human resources, general finance, and a call center at the new site. The group employs 510 people plus 143 doctors, Yoder said. About 150 to 160 people work in administration.
CB Richard Ellis represented the medical group in the lease, which will run at least 10 years. The building, owned by Normandy Realty Partners, would be about one-third vacant once the medical group moves in.
In early 2010, Westchester Medical Group expects to open a $7 million surgical center in Rye.

Workplace stress seminar is cancelled

Jerry Gleeson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:08:07 +0000

A program scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division in White Plains on stress management in the workplace has been cancelled due to lack of registrants, the Business Council of Westchester said.

Engel Burman Group will co-develop St. Agnes project

Jerry Gleeson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:42:20 +0000

North Street Community said it has a joint venture agreement with The Engel Burman Group to develop an assisted living community at the former St. Agnes Hospital in White Plains. Engel Burman is a real estate company that owns, builds and manages residential and other kinds of properties throughout the eastern United States, including the Bristal Assisted Living communities on Long Island. North Street Community plans to redesign the 150,000-square-foot former main hospital building into an assisted living community, with a separate area for those residents with memory loss associated with dementia.

SEIU claims victory in hospital organizing vote

Jerry Gleeson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:06:51 +0000

Business staff at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon Hospital voted 4-to-1 today to join United Healthcare Workers East, Local 1199 of Service Employees International Union, a union organizer said yesterday.
The vote was 106 to 24, with seven votes challenged, said Minerva Solla, vice president with the union’s organizing department. There will be 216 workers in the unit, she said.
Local 1199 also represents more than 900 service and technical workers at the New Rochelle and Mount Vernon hospitals.
Officials from the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the election, could not be reached for comment.

Hospital workers to vote on joining SEIU

Jerry Gleeson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:17:53 +0000

About 180 business staff at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon Hospital will vote tomorrow on whether to join United Healthcare Workers East, Local 1199 of Service Employees International Union.
If successful, it would be the second group of hospital business workers that Local 1199 has organized in Westchester County this year, said Minerva Solla, vice president with the union’s organizing department.
In March, about 100 workers at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers voted to join the local, she said.
Hospital business staff include a wide range of job categories, including cashiers, coders, computer operators, clerk/typists, dietary clerks, data entry clerks, medical records staff, and switchboard operators.
The balloting will be overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. If the workers agree to representation by the local, they would subsequently form committees and start to negotiate a contract with management.
Solla said the Saint Joseph’s workers signed a contract with management several months after the vote.
Local 1199 also represents more than 900 service and technical workers at the New Rochelle and Mount Vernon hospitals.

Mount Kisco Medical Group renews MVP contract

Jerry Gleeson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:53:41 +0000

Mount Kisco Medical Group has extended its contract with MVP Health Care for three years effective the start of 2009, both sides said today. MVP is the third insurer with whom the medical group has renewed contracts. Cigna and Healthnet signed deals earlier, said Dr. Scott Hayworth, the practice’s chief executive officer. Talks are continuing with a fourth insurer, whom Hayworth declined to identify. The practice will continue to see patients covered by that insurer while talks continue, he said. Mount Kisco Medical Group has 11 offices in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, and 170 primary care and specialty physicians in MVP’s network. The extension covers all MVP plans except its Medicaid managed care and Medicare Advantage programs.

Medical pavilion opens in White Plains

Jerry Gleeson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:51:45 +0000

North Street Community LLC has opened the Westchester Medical Pavilion, a 72,000-square-foot medical office complex at 311 North St. in White Plains. About 40 percent of the four-story building has been leased so far following a $4 million renovation, the developer said.
Among the new leases: Hospice & Palliative Care of Westchester, a not-for-profit home hospice care provider; Edna L. Roker Social Adult Day Care Center Inc., a senior day care program; Urogynecology and Advanced Pelvic Surgery P.C., a GYN specialist for women’s health.
Dennis Noskin Architects of Tarrytown is the architect for the project. Rakow Commercial Realty Group is the exclusive leasing agent. North Street Community has plans to build 335 independent condominiums for those 60 and older at the 23-acre campus.

Irvington company covers costs of organ transplants

David Schepp — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:47:22 +0000

The Maxon Co., an Irvington-based manager of health care plans, has begun offering insurance to cover the cost of organ transplants.

Maxon said it is the first third-party administrator in the state to offer the insurance, which is offered to employees of companies with self-funded insurance plans.

The coverage is underwritten by AIG Medical Excess, a specialty medical insurer, and covers costs related to transplants of the heart, lung, liver, intestine, kidney, pancreas, bone marrow and stem cells, Maxon said.

The insurance covers all transplant-related expenses, including physician, hospital and drug charges, when in-network resources are used, Maxon said. Coverage begins at patient evaluation and continues for a year after the surgery, it said.

ENT and Allergy Associates opens NJ office

Jerry Gleeson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:44:16 +0000

Greenburgh-based ENT and Allergy Associates said it has opened an office in Mahwah, N.J., its 29th clinical office in the metro region. ENTA now has 86 physicians and more than 50 licensed audiologists.

PsychoGenics names scientific adviser

Jerry Gleeson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:08:56 +0000

PsychoGenics Inc. of Eastview named John McCall to its Scientific Advisory Board, reflecting the companyâ€™s growth in the areas of drug discovery and development. McCall has more than 30 yearsâ€™ experience in the pharmaceutical industry including senior positions at Pfizer, Pharmacia and Upjohn, the company said. McCall is president of PharMac LLC, a consultancy in Boca Raton, Fla.