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Care Ventilator Care Program Director Receives Award for Outstanding
Dedication and Service
Northeast Center for Special Care Ventilator Care
Program Director Receives Award for Outstanding Dedication and Service
Lake Katrine, NY, April 8,
2007: Northeast Center for
Special Care is pleased to announce that Thomas R. Harvie, RRT, CPFT,
Ventilator Care Program Director has been awarded the President's
Recognition Award from the Northeast Chapter of the New York State Society
for Respiratory Care (NYSSRC).
The award was presented to Mr. Harvie by Ken Wyka, MS, RRT, FAARC,
President of the NYSSRC, during the Society's 2007 Respiratory Care
Teaching Day on Friday March 30, 2007 at the Best Western/Sovereign Hotel
in Albany, NY.
The award was given in appreciation for Mr. Harvie's outstanding
dedication and service to the northeast chapter of the NYSSRC and to the
respiratory care profession.
"Northeast Center for Special Care is the premier ventilator care and
weaning program in the country," Mr. Harvie, who has dedicated
himself as a respiratory therapist noted.
He also said: "It's important for me to help people who have
respiratory conditions to receive the best of care and rehabilitation. To
be able to work at my profession in such an innovative and successful
program as the Ventilator Care Program at Northeast Center for Special
Care gives me great satisfaction - this is a special place. We have one of
the highest weaning rates in the country and we have assisted hundreds of
people to be able to return to their home communities and live as
independently as possible. I feel honored to have received this award and
to practice my clinical skills at Northeast Center."
Ann M. Belcher, CEO of Northeast Center for Special Care stated: "It
takes a gifted clinical staff and strong leadership to achieve the
wonderful outcomes we have brought about for people with respiratory
problems or who have come to us breathing on mechanical ventilators. Mr.
Harvie provides the leadership and motivation that drives our respiratory
staff and interdisciplinary treatment teams to bring about those
outcomes."
Mr. Harvie is an NBRC Registered Respiratory Therapist, and an NBRC
Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist. He has worked at Franklin
Medical Center in Greenfield Massachusetts, Albany Medical Center in
Albany, NY and joined the staff of Northeast Center for Special Care in
2000. He was named Director of the Ventilator Care Program at Northeast
Center in 2006.
The Ventilator Care Program at Northeast Center for Special Care is a
state-of-art respiratory rehabilitation program for individuals, who are
dependent on a mechanical ventilator, require respiratory rehabilitation
or cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation. Northeast Center for Special Care is
honored to have received the American Association for Respiratory Care
Quality Respiratory Care Recognition Award: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
and has a history of impressive clinical outcomes and one of the highest
weaning rates in the country. Established in 1999, it is located on a
lovely thirty-nine acre campus in Lake Katrine, NY. The mission of
Northeast Center for Special Care is rehabilitation, recovery and
community reentry for individuals with disabilities. Since its inception,
hundreds of individuals have "graduated" from its programs and
have moved on to integrated settings in their communities.
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Media contact: Northeast Center for Special Care, Beth
Faichney, Media and Public Relations Director 845-336-3500
Founded in 1999, Northeast Center for Special Care is a unique inpatient
facility designed to serve medically complex and multiply impaired
individuals with brain injury, spinal cord injury, neurobehavioral
disorders, ventilator and respiratory care needs and other complex medical
needs. Advanced professional skills and innovative therapies are coupled
with an unwavering belief in the potential of every individual to
progress. It is this belief that drives our commitment to help those
recovering at Northeast Center achieve the highest degree of
rehabilitation possible and to reenter the community.
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