St. John’s Episcopal Hospital recently held two ribbon-cutting ceremonies for two newly renovated patient areas, the Marjorie Basser Hemodialysis Center and the Pulmonary Care Center. To date the 332-bed Hospital has renovated the majority of its medical/surgical patient units as well as its ambulatory surgery suite.

The opening of the 12,000 sq. ft, 43-bed Pulmonary Care Center was also celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by (from left to right): Lynore Dupiton, RN, Vice President, Patient Care Services, St. John’s; Roseann Aviolla, RN, Nurse Manager, Pulmonary Care Center; The Right Reverend Orris G. Walker, Jr., President and Chairman, Board of Managers, EHS; The Right Reverend Rodney Michel, First Vice President, Board of Managers, EHS; Luis A. Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer, St. John’s; Jonathan Althus, MD, pulmonology attending; Roy DeBeer, DO, Chairman, Medical Executive Committee; and Rabbi Zalman Baida, Chaplain.

Photo caption dialysis: At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 15-station Hemodialysis Center were (from left to right): Dean C. Preddie, MD, Medical Director, Hemodialysis Center; Roy DeBeer, DO, Chairman, Medical Executive Committee; The Right Reverend Orris G. Walker, Jr., President and Chairman, Board of Managers of Episcopal Health Services; Margaret O. Carpenter, Second Vice President, Board of Managers, EHS; The Right Reverend Rodney Michel, First Vice President, Board of Managers, EHS; Luis A. Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer, St. John’s; and Sheldon Markowitz, MD, Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine.