Future Osteopathic Physicians:
On behalf of the tens of thousands of doctors and nurses as well as patients who valued the Horton Hospital Complex as a place of healing and comfort for the last 100 years, I welcome you to the first hospital in the country to be re-purposed into the finest state-of-the-art medical school. The Danza-Leser Group is pleased to partner with Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Middletown, New York, where together it is our commitment to provide you with the finest student housing along with the Heart and Soul Café for your dining pleasure.
The re-purposed Horton Hospital Complex has been done with dignity, offering new and vital health care programs to serve the Middletown, and greater Mid-Hudson Valley region and to assure that the Horton Hospital Complex would remain a beacon of hope to all those who embrace quality
health care. We welcome you to Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and want you to enjoy more than the brick and mortar of the Horton Hospital and Complex. We want you to be part of a legacy – to be able to apply engineering to a historic hospital so it may remain a beacon of hope to the community of the Mid-Hudson Valley.
During the construction and opening of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Danza-Leser Group was energized by the programming offered at the medical school as well as the competencies students must bring to the table in order to be qualified to engage in medical education to become an Osteopathic Physician.
The Danza-Leser Group also became sensitized to the struggles some medical school students can endure as part of their medical education program.
– Illness
– Financial limitations
– Isolation because of intense studying
To assure that students can be focused on their studies, the Danza-Leser Group established an Emergency Fund of $5,000 in 2014. This fund provides financial assistance to students who demonstrate unforeseen hardship. In the same year, the Danza-Leser Group also wanted to assist the inaugural class in adjusting to medical school by having additional social activities to give the students a secure feeling of family and community. To this end, the Danza-Leser Group established a $10,000 fund for events and activities that will surely enhance the social life of all the medical students. This program of activities is extended and will benefit all students studying at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine for years to come.
In addition, in November 2014, after lengthy conversations with the medical school admissions committee and having a full understanding of the financial sacrifices student applicants must make to be able to attend medical school (particularly those from underrepresented communities), the Danza-Leser Group established a $10,000 Scholarship Fund. All together, the Danza-Leser Group has committed an initial $25,000 to the medical school students of Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine as its commitment to their success.
We welcome you to an exciting career in medicine. We know you will enjoy the beautiful countryside of the Mid-Hudson Valley Region, particularly, Middletown, New York and I am sure that you will feel comfortable living in the housing complex inside the medical school and just footsteps away from your laboratories and lecture halls.
If there is anything the Danza-Leser Group can do for you, please contact Cindy Dickman at cindy.dickman@touro.edu
The very best,
Kenneth J Steier, DO, MBA, MPH, MHA, MGH
Founding Dean and Professor – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-Middletown
Tony Danza
CEO – Danza Leser Group