Middletown – Garnet Health, which includes Garnet Health Medical Center, Garnet Health Medical Center – Catskills, Garnet Health Doctors, Garnet Health Urgent Care, Garnet Health Foundation and Garnet Health Foundation – Catskills, is pleased to announce the following leadership changes.

Theresa Dering has joined Garnet Health as Administrative Director of Laboratory Services. In her new role, Ms. Dering has oversight for all laboratory service for Garnet Health Medical Center and Garnet Health Medical Center - Catskills including operations, planning for future expansion of services and across-system alignment of practices. She was previously Administrator of Laboratory Services at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY.

Dana Hendrickson has been promoted to Administrator of Clinical Applications for Garnet Health. In her new role, Ms. Hendrickson develops operations, medical affairs and information services to support Epic, the System’s electronic health record system. She also oversees the Epic clinical application teams for both inpatient and outpatient care and the laboratory and Epic system training teams. Ms. Hendricks joined the organization in 2001 and was previously Director of Epic Ambulatory.

Kathleen Pagani, PHR, SHRM-CP has been promoted to system level Human Resources Administrator. In her new role, Ms. Pagani oversees all Employee and Labor Relations across the System including continued oversight of HR Operations for Garnet Health Doctors. She joined the organization in 2001 and was previously Human Resources Administrator for Garnet Health Medical Center and Garnet Health Doctors.

Yesenia Ramos, MS, PHR, SHRM-CP has been promoted to Director of Human Resources Operations for Garnet Health Medical Center. In her new role, Ms. Ramos oversees Human Resources Business Partners, Human Resources Associates and Human Resources Information Systems. She joined the organization in 2015 as a Human Resources Business Partner and was previously Manager of Human Resources Operations.

Nelson Sit has been promoted to Manager of Emergency Management for Garnet Health. In his new role, Mr. Sit oversees emergency management training for the system. He is also Garnet Health’s liaison to outside healthcare agencies including the Greater New York Health Association, Healthcare Association of New York State, the New York State Department of Health and the Health Emergency Preparedness Coalition. Mr. Sit joined the organization in 2016 and was previously a Lead Armed Security Officer.

To learn more about career opportunities at Garnet Health, visit garnethealth.org/careers.