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What's new on the business scene for Aug. 28

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Real estate developer names associate vice president — Westage Companies, among the region's premier health care real estate developers, has added Lisa Westerfield to its team as associate vice president of business development.

Westerfield recently worked throughout Philadelphia as director of business development for StructureTone Inc., a construction management firm based in New York City. She has over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing with professional service firms. She began her career in the chemical industry where she managed a construction chemical group.

Lisa Westerfield

Westerfield has a bachelor's in biology from Monmouth University, where she also earned her MBA in management and is a LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) accredited professional and co-founding member and past chairperson of the U.S. Green Building Council's New Jersey chapter.

Westage Companies specializes in health care real estate development and the ongoing management and leasing of those properties. For information, call 845-897-3800 or visit westage.com

ETC.

Two hospitals join Safe Motherhood Initiative — Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck, are participating in a project to save the lives of women faced with severe complications during pregnancy and childbirth.

These Health Quest-affiliated hospitals are collaborating with the New York State District of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG District II) on the Safe Motherhood Initiative. The co-chairs of the initiative are Dr. Mary D'Alton and Dr. Cynthia Chazotte.

Close to 99 percent of the nearly 250,000 live births in New York result in the discharge of a mother and her baby. Yet there are mothers who die or suffer serious harm. New York ranks 47th in the country for its maternal mortality rate.

The hospital teams are working together to focus on implementing standard approaches for handling New York's three leading causes of maternal death: obstetric hemorrhage (severe bleeding), venous thromboembolism (blood clots) and severe hypertension in pregnancy (high blood pressure).

ACOG District II is working with over 100 obstetric and maternity care hospitals across New York on standardized protocols for these events to help ensure every woman has a safe, healthy pregnancy and childbirth.

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