In this episode of Let's Talk, Kingston Erica had a conversation about WMC (Westchester Medical Center) with Kingston's Executive Director of Health Alliance, Dr. Michael Doyle. Health Alliance Hospital (the former Benedictine Hospital) is opening on December 14th and in this episode, we worked to inform the community as best possible on the information they will need to know about the beautiful transformation.
Relevant Links around this episode's conversation:
hahv.org/news/more-precise-diagnoses-efficient-monitoring-and-co-1593
hahv.org/news/margaretville-hospital-opioid-overdose-prevention-1596
Health Alliance Executive Team (below copy from Dr. Michael Doyle's Bio):
Michael Doyle, MD, MBA, CPE
Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley
Doyle will provide leadership and work collaboratively with hospital teams at HealthAlliance Hospital: Broadway Campus and HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary’s Avenue Campus in Kingston, Margaretville Hospital and Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville, and all members of WMCHealth, while overseeing areas such as operations, quality, patient safety, and medical services. He will work to improve the health of the community and advance an integrated delivery system in which patients have seamless access to care in the Hudson Valley communities where they live.
Doyle brings to HealthAlliance and WMCHealth more than 27 years of healthcare experience focused on hospital leadership in military and civilian hospitals in the United States and overseas.
Doyle most recently served as the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. Doyle is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, completing his medical education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He also received an MBA from Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. Doyle served in the U.S. Army, providing clinical and operational leadership at military hospitals in Washington, New York and abroad in Germany, as well as in combat hospitals in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Doyle retired from the military in 2013 at West Point, where he served as Deputy Commander of Keller Army Community Hospital. In 2013, Doyle joined St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital as Associate Medical Director.
Doyle and his wife of 29 years, along with their three children, live in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Doyle enjoys all that the Hudson Valley has to offer including running, biking, hiking, kayaking, swimming, and skiing.