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Gurwin Immersion Room Featured in This Month's Alzheimer's TODAY Magazine

The Immersion Room at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is spotlighted in the June 2025 issue of Alzheimer’s TODAY magazine.   

June 4, 2025

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur Chief Executive Officer Receives 2025 Senior Level Healthcare Executive Award From the American College of Healthcare Executives

NYC Health + Hospitals announced that Susan Sales, MPA, FACHE, LNHA, chief executive officer of Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility, has been recognized as a 2025 Senior Level Healthcare Executives Regent’s Award honoree by the American College of Healthcare Executives – Healthcare Leaders of New York.

June 4, 2025

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Fox Run at Orchard Park Celebrates Its Veterans

Fox Run at Orchard Park is thrilled to introduce the Fox Run Veterans Wall, a new memorial wall project for all of the armed forces represented by its Community Members.

June 4, 2025

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The Wesley Community's CEO Receives Lawrence E. Larson Memorial Award of Honor

The Wesley Community is celebrating one of its own after LeadingAge New York bestowed its highest honor on Wesley CEO Brian Nealon at its Annual Conference on Tues., May 20th in Saratoga Springs.

May 30, 2025

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'This is long enough': Nursing home residents seek raise in $50 personal needs stipend, 40 years in the making

A new WROC segment spotlights efforts by Deborah Leary, a resident at Monroe Community Hospital, to increase the monthly $50 personal needs allowance for nursing home residents, which has remained unchanged since 1983.

May 30, 2025

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Gurwin virtual reality Immersion Room named innovation winner at 13th Annual Long Island Imagine Awards

Gurwin Healthcare System’s cutting-edge Immersion Room recently took home top prize in the Innovation category in the 13th Annual Long Island Imagine Awards.

May 29, 2025

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'We're ready every day': 1 nursing home CEO's 5-star leadership strategy

Daveth Forbes-Thomas, MSN, RN, CEO of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, discusses the lessons she has learned during her time at McKinney and what she sees for the nursing home’s future in a new interview with Becker’s Hospital Review.

May 27, 2025

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This polypharmacy initiative moved one-third of nursing home residents away from dangerous threshold

A new article in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News spotlights the United Hospital Fund’s recent adoption of a new tool that successfully assisted ArchCare at Mary Manning Walsh Home, Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, and The New Jewish Home in deprescribing frail, end-of-life residents.

May 27, 2025

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PoliticsNY and amNY Honor NYC Health + Hospitals and MetroPlusHealth Leaders on 2025 "AAPI Power Players" List

Dr. Khoi Luong, senior vice president of post-acute care at NYC Health + Hospitals, is one of three leaders from the health system and MetroPlusHealth named to PoliticsNY and amNY’s 2025 “AAPI Power Players” list.

May 23, 2025

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All Five NYC Health + Hospitals Post-Acute Care Facilities Recognized as LGBTQ+ Long-Term Care Equality Leaders by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and SAGE

NYC Health + Hospitals announced that all five of its post-acute care facilities – Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility, Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility, and Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center & Home – have been recognized as LGBTQ+ Long-Term Care Equality Leaders in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and SAGE’s 2025 Long-Term Care Equality Index.

May 23, 2025
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