Our hospitals’ leadership and staff have fulfilled the goal of providing locally available, high-quality, and sustainable health care through improvements that have enhanced the health and wellness of our communities. Dr. Marty Stallone will advance those efforts as the next president and CEO of Cayuga Medical Center starting Jan. 1, 2019, and when he takes on the additional responsibilities of leading the Cayuga Health System this coming fall.

The Cayuga Health System has been building an integrated program of musculoskeletal care for several years. More than a decade ago, we could see our region’s population of older adults was growing, and we began anticipating their future health care needs. Many of these residents have active lives, but as most of us discover, our bodies change with time. To continue enjoying a lifetime of healthy activities, some of us will need sophisticated orthopedic care. Treating the complex injuries affecting bones and joints takes a team of experts with years of specialty experience.

Providing residents with high level medical care in their communities is a key mission for the Cayuga Health System. The mission enhances the health of our region, and it has transformed health care in our service areas especially Cortland County where we have been improving health services for residents for two decades.

After five years of fruitful collaboration with the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lots of hard work by a team of committed health care professionals at UR Medicine, I am pleased to announce the establishment of the Cayuga Center for Neuroscience, a new program of Cayuga Health System.