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CMH Nurses Benefit from Ann Cochran's Legacy

Fri, Oct 28, 2011

CMH Nurses Benefit from Ann Cochran's Legacy

Over 40 Community Memorial Hospital nurses attended the first Ann Cochran Nursing Education Day recently. Ann Cochran, who passed away in 2010, was well known throughout the region and to the CMH community for her work with the Mid-York Family Health Center and the Mid-York Foundation..

Speakers for the event included:

  • Mitchell Brodey, M.D., (in photo) from Infectious Disease at Community General Hospital at Upstate University Hospital (topic: Infection Control);
  • Darlene DelPrato, Ph.D., RN, Chair of Nursing and Health Professions, SUNY IT, Utica (topic: Horizontal Violence);
  • Todd Olrich, RN, MSN, CNS, Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital (topic: Hourly Rounding);
  • and Diane Potter, RN, Community Memorial Hospital (topic: Pneumonia Prevention).

The program was held at V.J.'s Diner and was repeated in the morning and afternoon so that more of the nursing staff could attend. At the luncheon, Dr. Merrill Miller spoke about Cochran's many attributes and how she touched the lives of many. 

The funding for the program came from the Ann Cochran Endowment for Nursing Education at Community Memorial Hospital and a gift from the Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.

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