January 26, 2024 – The Westchester Medical Middle Well being Community (WMCHealth) strengthens its place because the main voice for maternal and little one well being in New York State, this month starting its four-year time period because the group main the 17-member state New York Affiliation of Regional Perinatal Applications & Networks (ARPPN).

Led by perinatal specialists from Westchester Medical Middle and the community's Maria Fareri Kids's Hospital, WMCHealth was chosen by fellow hospitals to imagine management of the ARPPN, which incorporates a number of the finest hospitals for perinatal care within the nation .

Since its founding greater than twenty years in the past, the ARPPN has served because the unified voice for New York State's perinatal facilities and as a clearinghouse for perinatal care recommendation, information and advocacy for the New York State Division of Well being.

Angela Silber, MD, FACOG, division chief, maternal/fetal drugs at WMCHealth's Westchester Medical Middle and Edmund F. La Gamma, MDFAAP, division chief of New child Medication and director of the Regional Neonatal Middle at WMCHealth's Maria Fareri Kids's Hospital, will function co-chairs.