AWARD WINNING EDITORIAL
JUNE 14, 2021 VOL. 57, No. 24
I N CLU DI N G TH E H U DSO N VALLE Y WE E K LY S EC TIO N
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Rendering of the assisted living building.
ASSISTED LIVING WIN
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But Mount Vernon board delays Wartburg’s independent building plan
BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com
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artburg, which provides a range of services for senior citizens from short-term rehabilitation to nursing home and assisted living care, on June 3 received approval from the Mount Vernon Planning Board for its application to build an assisted living building on its campus. At the same time, the board declined to
approve a separate plan for Wartburg to build a 210unit, eight-story independent living building while agreeing to take up the matter again when it meets in July. The new assisted living building would be five stories tall and would have 48 dwelling units. It would encompass 50,000 square feet and would replace the Berkemeier Auditorium. The Rev. Dr. G. C. Berkemeier served as director of the original Wartburg Orphan’s Farm School from 1885 to 1921. Architect David Fowles of KDA Architects in Voorhees, New Jersey, told the board that the building would be 66 feet and four
Greenwich doc invents implant that goes beyond traditional wrist replacement
inches in height, while zoning allowed a maximum of 90 feet. “The assisted living building, this five-story building, is the same building that had come before you when it was a referral from the city council in connection with a petition to map this property in the RMF-SC District (Senior Citizen Housing Floating Overlay Zone District) Attorney William Null of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder told the planning board. “In that connection, this board took considerable and appropriate time in evaluating the actual impacts of the assisted living building.” » ASSISTED LIVING
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BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com It’s all in the wrist for Dr. Scott Wolfe. Actually, that’s not completely true. The Greenwich resident is chief emeritus of the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in Manhattan, and therefore works on everything “from the shoulder down to the hand.” But it is with the wrist that Wolfe and his longtime colleague Dr. Joseph (Trey) Crisco are making their current mark, inventing and patenting KinematX, an implant that goes well beyond standard wrist replacement surgery.
“Shoulder, knee and hip surgeries have become commonplace,” Wolfe told the Business Journal. “But what we were doing with the wrist was not as advanced because the wrist wasn’t as well understood.” One of the main issues is wrist arthritis, which Wolfe said is one of the most common and debilitating conditions treated by hand surgeons, affecting about 5 million people in the U.S. alone. Wrist joint replacement, or wrist arthroplasty, has traditionally involved scans showing two planes, he explained, to illustrate the up-and-down and sideto-side motions normally
associated with most joints. “But the wrist is more complex,” Wolfe said. “Our research proved that when you’re throwing a ball, hammering something, pouring something into a pitcher, you’re using movements in both of those planes. So there was a third, spherical plane that needed to be included.” That research dates back more than 30 years, as Wolfe and Crisco — director of bioengineering at the Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence, and a professor of orthopedics and engineering at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital — combined their talents to find a better way. » EXCLUSIVE
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