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March 2017
From The President & CEO Heart disease is still the number one cause of death in the United States and our life-saving Heart Care program is critically important to our community. Recently, we celebrated several fantastic achievements. Orange Regional has been ranked 35th out of 2,371 hospitals Scott Batulis nationwide and 6th in New York President & CEO State, for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) risk adjusted mortalities as reported by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is an amazing accomplishment! We also proudly accepted trophies from Healthgrades for the America’s 100 Best Hospitals Award for Coronary Intervention™ and Coronary Intervention Excellence Award™. We also were recognized by Healthgrades with a Five Star rating for Coronary Interventional Procedures, and named among the Top 5% in the Nation for Coronary Intervention. These recognitions followed our honor as a High Performing Hospital for Heart Failure and COPD by US News & World Report. I’d like to thank our physicians, leaders and staff in the Peter Frommer, M.D. Heart Center for their incredible work and world class outcomes! Additionally, we received excellent results from our recent CMS Lab Validation Survey. The CMS survey is a form of quality control and happens only once every ten years. And while it’s called a Lab survey, it really involves the entire
organization. I’m proud to say the results of the survey were spectacular, and the surveyors were very impressed by our hospital. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this successful survey. I’d also like to congratulate our Inpatient Rehabilitation Department for its successful CARF re-accreditation survey. CARF accreditation is considered one of the hardest accreditations to achieve in healthcare. The Inpatient Rehabilitation Department has an excellent team, many of whom have worked together for many years. We’re very proud of the many successful accreditations we have achieved and the high quality of care provided to our patients every day. I would like to thank everyone who went “above and beyond” in dealing with the large snowfall and bad roads during the Blizzard of 2017, better known as Stella. All staff and departments did what was needed to take care of our patients and maintain operations. Many stayed overnight and worked long shifts. It was a great team effort and we should all be proud to work in an organization like Orange Regional. Sincerely,
Scott Batulis, President & CEO
Employees ‘Dress In Blue’ Orange Regional employees participated in National Dress in Blue Day on March 3 at the Main Campus. This event kicked off a month-long campaign to raise awareness for colon cancer.