Expanding to Daytona Beach

To The City of Daytona Beach,

I am Dr. Gary Antoine and I recently opened a 2nd office for my family medicine practice on Mason Ave., in Daytona Beach last month. My first office is located in Orlando, but Tony Danza, President of the Danza group, convinced me to expand to Daytona Beach.  He said that your community was in need of more doctors and that he was developing commercial projects in the area.  His advice made an immediate impact on my decision to open another office. Tony and I have had a business and personal relationship for over 10 years. The Danza group has built a medical school in NY and donated money and much needed medical equipment to my country of Haiti over the years.

I want to thank CIDC, for they were instrumental in arranging and providing some the financing for my practice.  I am extremely grateful for their financial help. I want to become involved in your city and become an active participate in all the medical needs of the community. My wife is also a doctor and together we look forward to a successful medical practice in Daytona Beach as we serve the needs of the people.

Warm personal regards,

Garry B. Antoine, MD, RRT,

Physician

Dr. Antoine is a general practitioner and an entrepreneur who earned his Medical Degree at St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine in Cayman Islands and completed his post-graduate training at Santa Rosa Hospital in Puerto Rico. He also received medical training at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York; Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, England; Southwest Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia; and Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, Canada. Prior to medical school, he has earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Chemistry at the State University of New York in Purchase, NY, and his Associate Degree in Respiratory Care at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York.

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The Danza Group has partnered with High Mountain Health

The Danza Group has partnered with High Mountain Health, one of the premier Passaic County medical general practices to develop the Wayne Medical Arts Center with the intent to bring superior healthcare to the local Wayne community which it has serviced for the last three decades.

The building is dedicated to Dr. David Rasa founder of High Mountain Health.

 

 

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A Very Exciting Morning in Middletown, New York

With the support of Governor Cuomo, the endorsement and welcoming cheer of Mayor Joseph DeStefano of Middletown, the work of the leadership of the Accelerator program, the physical plant design and construction of the Horton Center for Science and Technology – Tony Danza and the Danza Group, as well as our government leaders throughout Orange County, the top science and technology experts in this country have taken up residence in Middletown to develop our future science and tools which will govern our life this century and beyond.

Proud to be located in the same science and technology center is Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. Our student doctors, along with our science and research faculty, have an important opportunity to share in the volume of science work as a platform to influence the advancement of medicine.

As I work with the Accelerator program, the Danza Group and our medical school, the future of science will be well served in the new Silicon Valley of America – The Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State, and in the backyard of one of this country’s best communities to work and raise children – Middletown, New York.

 

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Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine White Coat Ceremony

The White Coat ceremony, as it’s colloquially known, is an important feature of medical school. Families and friends of the students traveled from across the United States to witness their loved ones don the coats they worked hard for.

For the students, donning the white coat was both the end of one journey and the beginning of another.

 

Click here to see a video compilation of the ceremony >>

 

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Touro College Adds More Dorms

MIDDLETOWN — More dormitories have been opened for the growing student body at the Middletown Campus of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The City of Middletown Planning Board gave Brooklyn-based Danza Leser Group LLC the green light last month to build 10 additional student dormitories at 27-31 Ridge St. The 4,355-square-foot former office space is right next to the college. Students began moving in in late July and the building is already at capacity, a student at the dorm said Tuesday.

The Danza Leser Group, which owns the former hospital on Prospect Avenue that hosts Touro College, also owns the Ridge Street property.

Kenneth Steier, executive dean of Touro College, said the roughly 160 existing dormitories inside the main campus have been filling up, and there’s currently a waiting list of 10 to 20 students. About half of the students live on campus, Steier said.

The Middletown Campus of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine opened in July of 2014, after a $25 million renovation of the former Horton Hospital, where the college currently takes up about 120,000 square feet.

Steier said the recent addition of a master’s program added about 80 students to the college. There’s also the potential to add programs for nursing and physical and occupational therapy that could lead to further expansion, though those plans aren’t certain yet.

“As we continue to grow, the need may grow. The more programs we have, the more dorms we’ll need,” Steier said. “We’re still in our growing phase.”

More activity is planned for the former hospital. Tony Danza, CEO of the Danza Leser Group, said plans announced in March for the nonprofit Middletown Community Health Center to move into about 40,000 square feet of the campus are still in the works. He said MCHC is working to line up financing.

“I’ve got my fingers crossed,” Danza said.

 

August 9, 2016 | Source

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Video: Watch the Danza Group Build the Country’s Tallest Wood Modular Building

New York Medical College, part of the Touro College and University System and The Danza Group, engaged Professional Building Systems, Inc. (PBS) to construct the tallest wood modular building in the U.S. The building houses students in the New York Medical College at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson.

The time-lapse video to the right shows the construction of the project.

The project includes:

• 42 living units
• 6 stories – 5 floors of wood frame type 3A construction over one floor of steel type 1 construction
• Accommodation of beautifully appointed studios and one-bedroom units with individual heat and air conditioning

 

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Middletown Community Health Center Plans Move to Horton Campus

MIDDLETOWN – Middletown Community Health Center is in talks to move and expand its health services to a vacant wing of the former Horton Hospital, now home to Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Theresa Butler, CEO of Middletown Community Health Center, said the nonprofit plans to pick up stakes on about 20,000 square feet of space at several offices where it operates now in Middletown and move to the former hospital on Prospect Avenue.

On Thursday morning, Middletown Mayor Joe DeStefano and members of MCHC and Touro gathered in the Touro College lobby to announce the plans, which call for MCHC to fill more than 40,000 square feet of vacant space in the former Michael F. Camillo, M.D. Pavilion wing.

The move comes on the heels of MCHC’s unsuccessful bid for a $7.9 million state grant to move its various offices to the former O&W Railway station on Wickham and Low avenues.

While the move will mean more space for MCHC to expand, it puts into question the fate of the O&W building. DeStefano said he’ll keep working to preserve as much as possible of the building, even if it’s just the facade facing Wickham Avenue. “But I don’t want to mislead anyone, there’s interest in the historic part of it but there is a possibility that the building will have to be demolished at some point if we’re not successful,” DeStefano said.

Dr. Jerry Cammarata, chief operating officer at Touro College, said the move will give students a better opportunity to shadow MCHC employees during their clinical rotations, then move seamlessly to classes.

Tony Danza, who owns the former hospital, said he hopes the move can happen by the end of 2016, though Butler declined to out a timeline on the project. Butler said MCHC officials are talking with the state to see if they can repurpose $2.2 million in state grants to go toward the move.

 

Source | March 17, 2016

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Plans Announced for Medical School to Anchor Rebirth of Horton Hospital Site

New school expected to boost healthcare network and create more than 800 jobs

MIDDLETOWN, NY – Plans were announced today that would allow the longvacant Horton Hospital complex to be reborn as a regional medical and educational center anchored by Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM), an affiliate of New York Citybased Touro College and University System. The final approval process for the new school is presently underway.

When fully operational, the new medical school would enroll more than 500 students and occupy up to 110,000 square feet of space in the complex. In addition to the medical school, a portion of the space may be devoted to other health science-related schools.

Touro would enter into a long-term lease with the property’s owner, The Danza Leser Group, and would invest $24 million to renovate the facility. Boosted by $1 million from the State of New York’s Regional Council Program, the initiative would create some 800 jobs.

“Expanding Touro’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in the former Horton Hospital site would offer a rare opportunity to meaningfully improve the healthcare and educational systems and provide an economic boost to an underserved area of New York State,” said Dr. Alan Kadish, president and CEO of Touro College and University System. “This planned ext

Tony Danza, a partner in The Danza Leser Group

ension of TouroCOM’s main campus would help ensure that the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions have sufficient physicians to meet the growing needs in the coming decades.”

Currently located on Harlem’s 125th Street, TouroCOM would offer a four-year degree program for physicians at the new campus, the school’s largest-ever expansion. TouroCOM is also considering the inclusion of training physical and occupational therapists, nurses and pharmacists.

“We pursued this property because we understand the increasing need for medical services in this area,” said Tony Danza, a partner in The Danza Leser Group. Danza said the company had been working on a medical school concept for this location since 2008.

In addition to the TouroCOM expansion, Danza Leser would develop 250 units of housing for students and faculty. The developer is also in discussions to include a 200-student school operated by Allied Health and an assisted living facility in the complex. The project would be projected to generate $275 million in economic activity.

“Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine would provide our residents with quality health options while adding much-needed jobs to our region,” said Orange County Executive Edward A. Diana. “I welcome them to our County and look forward to their success in our community.”

“The health indicators for our region are as bad as the worst places in the United States,” said Dr. Ron Israelski, a prominent physician in Orange County who helped make this medical school possible. “So in addition to the national trend that we need more doctors for an aging population, we need more schools for doctors. With TouroCOM, we address local needs of good health and quality higher education while giving a boost to the region’s economy.”

“Our approach to medical education is strongly connected to community service and community engagement,” said TouroCOM Dean Dr. Robert Goldberg. “We look forward to working in close cooperation with a broad spectrum of local constituencies to make long-term improvements in health outcomes throughout the region.”

Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStafano

“Osteopathic medicine places special emphasis on teaching and learning in the areas of primary care, and adopts a holistic approach to the patient,” said Dr. Jay Sexter, CEO of TouroCOM. “Medical students nationwide are increasingly turning to osteopathic medicine because of its capacity to enhance the healing process. The Hudson Valley region would reap the benefits.”

Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano said the project would have a huge impact on the Hudson Valley. “They would be bringing a very significant project to our city,” DeStefano said. “This would be one of the largest projects in this region in decades. Just like the rest of the nation, our community has struggled for years. This project would transform the area.”

Touro College and University System is one of the largest health care educational systems in the nation and offers a wide array of degree programs in medical and health sciences fields. In addition to colleges of osteopathic medicine in New York City and the one being announced today in Middletown, the Touro system also includes colleges of osteopathic medicine in Nevada and California. Touro has colleges of pharmacy in both New York and California, as well as graduate and undergraduate schools of health sciences on Long Island, in Manhattan, and in Nevada and California. Together with New York Medical College, Touro College and University System educates approximately 5,300 health sciences students annually.

According to the 2010 census, Middletown’s population is 28,086. Middletown and its outlying communities have several community colleges and high schools.

 

Source | January 10, 2013

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Medical school dorms being built at St. Joseph’s hospital in Paterson

Construction is underway on 42 apartments on Barclay Street that will serve as dormitories for students from a New York-based medical school who are going through training at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. Officials at New York Medical College (NYMC) say the dormitories will be ready to open in January.

“This building will provide convenient, modern short term housing for NYMC students who are participating in clinical training at the medical center,” said the medical college’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Riekert.

Mayor Jose “Joey” Torres expressed excitement about the new dorms. “I believe that at some point you might see something similar happening in our downtown with young people at PCCC (Passaic County Community College),” the mayor said.

The dorms near St. Joseph’s appeared on Barclay Street almost overnight. The contractor two weeks ago stacked five units of wood-framed modular housing on top of the first-floor steel-framed base, according to a spokesperson for the developer, The Danza Group.

The building stands 60-feet and six-inches high and its builders are boasting that it is the tallest wood modular structure in the country. The building includes both studio and one-bedroom apartments. In some instances, students’ spouses will live with them, according to the medical college.

“The building will provide our students with safe, affordable housing and contribute to the ongoing revitalization of the community surrounding the hospital,” said Dr. Alan Kadish, President of Touro College and University Systems and New York Medical College.

Riekert said most units will be occupied by medical students, but some will come from the college’s other health-related education programs – including physical therapy and nursing who are studying at St. Joseph’s. “In addition, some apartments may be used by employees of St. Joseph’s,” said Riekert.

The medical school is part of the Manhattan-based Touro College and University System. The Danza Group hired Professional Building Systems, Inc. to construct the dorms.
Tony Danza, the chief executive officer of the development company, said the new modular dormitory is being built “in a fraction of the time needed for other construction techniques.”

By Joe Malilnconico | September 8, 2015
Source: NorthJersey.com

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TouroCom-Middletown Students Plant a Community Garden to Beautify Campus

The story begins with Edward Qian, OMS2, who’s been gardening since he was a kid. In his hometown of Hinsdale, a quiet suburb of Chicago, his father (a former carpenter who taught him “to build everything from scratch”) maintained a bountiful garden with cucumbers, tomatoes, and soybeans.

When Edward entered Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-Middletown last year, he missed putting his horticultural skills—and green thumb—to use. While the interior of the newly purchased campus (the site of the former Horton Hospital) had been renovated, the outside landscaping hadn’t been touched in years, and was devoid of any flora or fauna. Edward wanted to add a garden bed or two to brighten up the campus.

With the help of Touro administration, he went scouting—for potential planting locations, and for friends to help him. He found both. His fellow classmates Vishwas Patel and Neomal Muthumala (known as Vish and Neo, respectively) volunteered enthusiastically to join the team. Two others, Nimi Rejali and Sam Sirotnikov, also volunteered to help, the former of whom lent a pickup truck to help with transportation of supplies.

When the team found a small patch of grass in the back lot of campus, they saw an acre of potential. After receiving generous funding from property owner Tony Danza of Danza/Leser, the medical students shopped for supplies: organic soil, vegetable seeds, 1.5 yards of gravel from a bulk distribution center, garden tools, and other necessary supplies.

“I was brought up in a very green household,” notes Vish. “My parents—who’ve been growing organic vegetables right in our backyard for years—always encouraged environmentalism. I grew up knowing how important it was for us to help the environment and protect the earth.”

With the help of TouroCOM-Middletown staff members Alex Yordan and Eddie Walters, the team borrowed a bulldozer to excavate an area to pave a walkway. In early spring, they prepared the soil inside the bed and began planting seeds and sprouts: kale, green beans, tomatoes, zucchini, bell peppers, and more. In early summer, their vegetables began growing.

Seeing the fruits (well, vegetables) of their labor was satisfying, they said, so after the completion of the garden bed, they kept going. “We found an old picnic table that was going to be thrown out, and then asked ourselves, ‘Hey, why don’t we add this to the garden?’ We took it apart, pressure-washed it, let it dry in the sun, put it back together and then painted it,” said Edward, whose carpentry skills came in handy. After the picnic table was complete, they added a bench and built a white picket fence.

They began the project before spring break, and—in between the long hours of studying, reading, and exams endemic of any medical student—worked on most of the heavy labor and building throughout the spring semester and summer recess.

“These young men worked tirelessly,” said Frank Rose, Director of Admissions at TouroCOM-Middletown. “And before we knew it, the project suddenly ‘blossomed’ from a simple raised garden bed to a completely fenced-in picnic area, complete with two vegetable gardens and flowers.” The crew is also planning on adding arbors and umbrellas for the picnic benches—to encourage sitting outdoors even in the midst of New York’s hot, sunny summers.

In keeping with their mission to promote environmentalism, the team is attempting to use as many recycled materials as they can: Most of the material for the fence, pavers, bench, and one picnic table were all refurbished items already found on the property.

And the project isn’t stopping there: The team plans to use the garden as a way of spreading awareness about health and environmentalism—not only at TouroCOM-Middletown, but within the greater Middletown community at large.

“There’s a lot of potential here for community involvement, for interaction with Middletown’s youth population,” said Neo, who came to Middletown from Santa Clarita, California. “We’re planning to start an educational program in which we’ll have elementary schools come over to pick vegetables while teaching them about healthy living.”

Currently, the team is in formal contact with Orange County’s Farm to Table program to collaborate with local school districts on education about healthy eating, gardening, environmentalism, and exercise.

“That’s something else that’s very unique about this garden: It’s bringing a lot of people in our school together,” Edward says. “Students, faculty and staff helped plant the vegetables, and a number of committed first-year students are watering the garden to help maintain it.” As of yet there is no steady water supply, so the crew needs to bring the water over from a far-away source via canisters. “It’s a lot of work, but the first-year students are dedicated.”

“We have almost 300 medical students in our school,” adds Vish. “It’s going to be a fascinating educational experience for us to interact with kids in the local area to teach them about science and healthy eating—just a small way we can give back to the community that has given and supported us tremendously.”

The team would like to thank Alex Yordan, staff member at TouroCOM, who ensured proper and safe equipment use and helped with certain construction parts of the garden. Additionally, they would like to thank Tony Danza of Danza/Leser who provided the funds, and Frank Rose, Admissions Director at TouroCOM-Middletown, for helping organize financing.

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