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Audrey Berzow never imagined her foot pain was potentially limb- and life-threatening. A vascular surgeon at WMC told her otherwise

It was Thanksgiving of 2013. Audrey Berzow was celebrating the holiday with her family, including her husband, son and daughter, in her Croton-on-Hudson home. A retired school administrative assistant, Berzow had made all of...

Frank Perrone wasn’t eligible for open-heart surgery to replace his failing heart valve. Luckily for him, a cutting-edge alternative procedurewas available at WMC

Frank Perrone, 65, of Mohegan Lake, is a former boxer and race car driver and an active public servant. But his fast-paced lifestyle slowed in February 2015 when he experienced difficulty breathing. He knew...

A news story on MidHudson Regional Hospital’s cutting-edge robotics team led one local reporter to her own minimally invasive robotics procedure

Donna Reyer first encountered Cornelius Verhoest, MD, in 2011 while reporting for Cablevision News. Reyer was interviewing him about the da Vinci Surgical System—which allows doctors like Verhoest, a  urogynecologist, to perform extremely complex...

There’s No Place Like Home

When 55-year-old Sharon Young of Wappingers Falls was transported to the Emergency Room at MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center last August, the last thing she expected was a two-month stay in the...