anyway let me let me first say thank you all for coming happy hospital week and happy nurses week nurses week and hospital week is just one more opportunity for us to to solid break you i think so here's what our program looks like this morning we're very honored to swing to once again have schenectady america and mccarthy here to commemorate this special week and officially recognized the contributions of both dallas medicine and the some of you rehabilitation hospital and s jim thank you chip thank you for the invitation to be part of the ceremony again this year it's interesting where the theme of hospital week is making miracles happen in those of you who do the line services for the patients know how true that is that things happen that are truly impressive and you look at just regionally and somewhat of a different front where we have the president coming back today to recognize some of the things that are happening here in the capital district which are really also miracles in terms of economic development you've seen very impressive things that the g e and the downtown plant at the r and d facility globalfoundries nanotech at suny albany and we're truly fortunate i think to be in this region at this time in were some of the press will go and focus on those economic development things that are happening it is such a key component to have quality health care in the region that it becomes part of the marketing tool in terms of attracting businesses here keeping businesses here in that your role is far more significant in terms of the future of this community in this region then you may realize when you're treating an individual patient or dealing with any individual case but again i thank you quickly go read this proclamation whereas national hospital week will be celebrated this year for may sixth through may twelfth and individuals all across the country will be celebrating this time honored event and whereas national hospital week dates back to the first national hospital day and may twelfth one thousand twenty one when it was celebrated to coincide with florence nightingale birthday in was expanded to a full week in one thousand nine hundred fifty three and where as the official theme for the two thousand and twelve national hospital week is making miracles happen in whereas miracles are indeed the mission of hospitals where every day dedicated health care professionals save lives and improve the health of individuals in the community as and whereas the city of schenectady is fortunate to be the site of two award winning hospitals ellis medicine the sole provider of acute hospital care in the county and sunny view rehabilitation hospital the sole specialized rehabilitation hospital in the region in whereas connect these hospitals not only fulfill the mission of good health but also our major employers important economic engines and good corporate citizens of the community and whereas the two hospitals employ over four thousand staff including over a thousand registered nurses and have over seven hundred affiliated physicians with ellis treating annually seventy nine thousand emergency room visits and over twenty thousand in patient in delivering twenty five hundred babies in while sunny view provides specialized rehabilitation care to an excess sixty thousand patients yearly and whereas the hard working employees who work at ellis medicine in sunny view rehabilitation hospital make exceptional health care in our community and now therefore i gary mccarthy of the city of schenectady to put proclaim may sixth through the twelfth as national hospital week in the city of schenectady and thank the staff of both hospitals for their dedication commitment and caring to all who spent time in their facilities part of this community as i was we've mentioned the celebration is about you about each and every one of you because you make our hospital an exceptional place to both give and receive care it is your hard work you determine ation your dedication each and every day you do a great job in taking care of our patients and we are enormously grateful for that and i know you are you are a group of skilled and talented people you're caring people and you did them and straight complete dedication to our patients to their families to our community and most importantly to each other as colleagues as an organization with more than three thousand four hundred employees more than seven hundred affiliated physicians each and every person makes a difference in providing patient centered care no matter what your respective roles might be so we want to thank you for putting patients first part keeping patients at the center of everything we do for your continued commitment to providing exceptional care and to improving services to our customers we are extraordinarily proud to be on the same team with all of you and now i'd like to invite c c to say a few words  morning everyone in just a minute jim and i are going to unveil our collage that really represents patient centered care here at the organization and we received photos from twenty five different departments over fifty  photos literally that we could do a banner that could span the whole circumference of this room some of them are absolutely wonderful and what i want you to do though is i want you to look at the photos don't just look at the faces they're wonderful every single photo that was that was contributed it's a wonderful photo wonderful face you'll recognize a lot of them what i want you to do though is to look into the photos and really pull out those aspects of patient centered care look at the diversity look at the education look at how we're sharing knowledge look at the respect for patients individual preferences look at how we honor non medical interventions and spiritual interventions look for those things in the photos and if you can find those that's patient centered care so i think without further ado is there a man behind the curtain models we wanted to bring your attention i have a couple thoughts on a couple of them one is a picture i think what seats up an upper right hand corner you'll see a picture of dr patrol with a group of people ranged in sort of a semicircle around  that was the occasion of our very first shared medical appointment this is a trend that is occurring in the united states as patients come together instead of having one on one appointments with the doctor they have a group of women with a doctor it does really two things one it makes very good use of the doctor's time but even more importantly the patients are learning from each other they're teaching each other they're relating to each other and especially with the explosion of information on the internet we're finding that more great security department and they're so giving and and so committed to helping us as colleagues but this is a is an example of them continuing to go above and beyond their commitment to our patients and to our visitors at least twice a week we're told security staff end up changing a tire for someone parking lots or they jumpstart a car or they help people locate their car or they help call tow truck in case their cars are at themselves become acutely ill but they do a great job and this was a