Hudson Valley Hospital Center was presented with nine awards for excellence in advertising on June 5 at The Advertising Club of Westchester’s 42nd annual Big W Awards at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown. NY

More than 200 NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital employees – from the Hospital President to the mailroom staff- donned pink gloves today for their shot at winning the 2013 Medline Pink Glove Dance competition.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital's Ambulatory Surgery team has been named a 2015 Guardian of Excellence Award® winner by Press Ganey Associates, Inc. for the second year in a row.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and David Letterman joined Ronald O. Perelman, chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital President and CEO Dr. Herbert Pardes at a ceremony today officially opening the new Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, an innovative center offering comprehensive, world-class cardiovascular care and heart health education to New Yorkers and patients from around the globe.

Three leading spinal surgeons are joining NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, effective July 1. Drs. Larry Lenke, Daniel Riew and Ronald Lehman will establish a comprehensive spine hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian/Allen and will also treat patients at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. In addition, they will serve on the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

A thumb-sized sound processor worn behind the ear and held in place by a small, magnetized titanium implant inserted under the skin is now being offered at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center to people with single-sided sensorineural hearing loss and for those with conductive hearing loss who cannot wear conventional hearing aids.

A new study of obese adolescents has shown that laparoscopic gastric banding surgery — the "Lap-Band" procedure — not only helps them achieve significant weight loss but can also improve and even reverse metabolic syndrome, reducing their risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Dr. Jim Hu has been appointed director of the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and recruited as the Ronald Lynch Chair of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He assumed his new role on Feb. 1.