White Plains, N.Y. (August 15, 2017) – White Plains Hospital welcomes Dr. Alan Multz, who is joining the Hospital as Associate Medical Director for Quality and Complex Care. In this role, he will be responsible advancing the multidisciplinary team model to affect improvement in patient quality and safety.
An expert in graduate medical education, Dr. Multz has trained hundreds of medical students, internal medicine residents, and pulmonary/critical care fellows over the past twenty-five years.
Dr. Multz earned his medical degree from Boston University. He completed an internship, a residency in internal medicine, and fellowships in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Critical Care Medicine, as well as a member of the American Thoracic Society.
About White Plains Hospital
White Plains Hospital (WPH) is a proud member of the Montefiore Health System, serving as its tertiary hub of advanced care in the Hudson Valley. WPH is a 292-bed not-for-profit health care organization with the primary mission of providing exceptional acute and preventive medical care to all people who live in, work in or visit Westchester County and its surrounding areas. Centers of Excellence include the Center for Cancer Care, The William & Sylvia Silberstein Neonatal & Maternity Center and The Ruth and Jerome A. Siegel Stroke Center. The Hospital’s Flanzer Emergency Department is the busiest in Westchester County, seeing nearly 60,000 visits a year. White Plains Hospital performs lifesaving emergency and elective angioplasty in its Joan and Alan Herfort, M.D. Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Marie Promuto Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. White Plains Hospital also has outpatient medical facilities in Armonk and New Rochelle. The Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and earned its recognition as a Top Performer for Key Quality Measures® in 2015 and 2013. The Hospital is also an eleven-time winner of the Consumer Choice Award, an honor given to the nation’s top hospitals by the National Research Corporation. In 2012, the Hospital received Magnet® designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and, in 2016, earned re-designation as a Magnet hospital. In 2014 and 2016, White Plains Hospital received the Outstanding Patient Experience Award from Healthgrades®, given to only 10% of hospitals nationwide. For additional information, visit http://www.wphospital.org.