WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Joe Vellone is a football fan. The retired Baldwin Place roofing contractor loves to watch the New York Jets on television, but that has become more and more difficult in recent years. Vellone, 76, has had his vision severely impaired by macular degeneration. “It started about six or seven years ago and got progressively worse until I couldn’t see anything ...

Westchester Medical Center, the regional leader in heart and vascular care offers Transcatheter Aortic Valve replacement (TAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis. Dr. Gilbert Tang performs the minimally invasive procedure in a specially designed, state-of-the-art hybrid operating room—the only operating suite of its kind in the Lower Hudson Valley. Read more about TAVR here.

VALHALLA, N.Y. - Dr. Nitin Sekhri has been named the new medical director of pain management for the Westchester Medical Center. Sekhri was appointed to the medical staff of on Jan. 8. He earned his Chemical Engineering degree from Manhattan College before attending Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center, ...

Westchester Medical Center (WMC) is among the first hospitals in the State and the first in the Hudson Valley region to implant the Boston Scientific Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator System (S-ICD®), the world’s first and only commercially available subcutaneous implantable defibrillator for the treatment of patients who are at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Sei ...

Recently, cases of whooping cough have been reported in the Hudson Valley. Whooping cough or Pertussis disease can start just like the common cold, with a runny nose or congestion, sneezing, and perhaps even a mild cough or fever. However, after a week or two patients begin to experience severe coughing.  Whooping cough is highly contagious and is easily spread through coughing or ...

Dr. Darshan Patel, Chief of the Pediatric Emergency Department at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center is featured in the latest profile video from Westchester Medical Center.  The video is the latest installment in an ongoing series featuring candid conversations with Westchester Medical Center practitioners and staff.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), influenza or “the flu” is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness. The flu infects the nose, throat, and lungs and in serious cases, the flu infection can result in hospitalization or in some cases death. Some people, such as the very old, young or infirmed are at higher risk ...

Before retiring in 2013, after 35 years of dedicated service to Westchester Medical Center, Registered Nurse and second generation graduate of the Grasslands School of Nursing, Mary Reiser, sat down for an interview and shared her story and her thoughts on nursing and her long career at the Medical Center where she cared for some of the regions sickest most critically ill patients for ...

“When you're with a friend who makes your heart feel good, your body will often follow suit." -- Alan L. Gass, M.D. Heart transplant units are typically places where very sick people go to wait, hopeful that an organ will become available in time to save their lives. But for two recent Westchester Medical Center patients, such a unit became the birthplace of a close friendship that ...

One of the first senses affected by alcohol consumption is one’s sense of good judgment. The holiday season is traditionally a joyous time of year. Sadly, this time is often marred by unnecessary and preventable tragedies. Alcohol related fatalities claim the lives of nearly 12,000 Americans and injure nearly 600,000 more every year. The holiday season and New Year’s is a time for fun ...