JACK C. SCHOENHOLTZ, M.D.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR/ADMINISTRATOR
He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Diplomate in Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College, teaching psychiatry to medical students for over two decades. He served as Chairman of the New York State Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals for ten years, has been the Medical Director of the Rye Hospital Center since 1971 and, in 1998, he became the Founding Medical Director and Vice-President for Medical Affairs of the Children's Mental Health Alliance Foundation.

A trustee of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems for six years, he chaired the national organization's first committee on Cost Review. An early researcher in the uses of lithium for Manic-Depressive illness (Bi-Polar Disorder), establishing clinics at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center-Westchester Division, New York United Hospital in Port Chester, NY and at Rye Hospital Center, he has also been active in state and federal regulatory matters, providing testimony before federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies, and litigating as plaintiff three times at the level of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving psychiatric hospitals and the healthcare industry.

His successful resistance to the interference with treatment of patients by managed-care organizations is widely known through media interviews, numerous articles and monographs, and as consultant to several committees and councils of the American Psychiatric Association and patient-advocacy organizations. He was the senior author, in collaboration with Drs. Alfred M. Freedman and Abraham L. Halpern, of: Halpern, of: The "Legal" Abuse of Physicians in Deaths in the United States: The Erosion of Ethics and Morality in Medicine, published in The Wayne Law Review, a treatise on physician-assisted suicide, participation in competency examinations for executions, and the ethical dilemma of physicians embracing managed care. A draft of his recent book, The Managed Care Industry-A Market Failure, has been sent to key legislators, policy planners and leaders of the healthcare community. Dr. Schoenholtz is married, the father of six children, the grandfather of seven and the great-grandfather of two.

JOHN J. MARCOGLIESE, M.B.A.
VICE PRESIDENT/FINANCIAL OPERATIONS

Before coming to Rye Hospital Center, Mr. Marcogliese spent over twenty years with the Federal Government as Chief of the Accounting and Reimbursement Section of the Healthcare Financing Administration, Region II of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

He has lectured extensively, is a College Adjunct Healthcare Instructor, and frequently hosts a local radio show. He has worked in public accounting and has been a chief financial officer of a large inner city hospital, as well as a nursing home administrator.

AMY S. SCHOEN,  B.A.                                    VICE-PRESIDENT/ ADMINISTRATION

She has been with the hospital for more than 30 years.  Among her responsibilities are accreditation and regulatory issues, risk management and quality assurance.  She sits on the Westchester County Executive's Medical Advisory Board for Emergency Planning as Rye Hospital Center's representative.

Previous to her employment at Rye Hospital Center she was with IBM Corporation in administration and worked in the Westchester County Executive's office in administration. Mrs. Schoen is a graduate of New York University with a background in Psychology, English, Speech and Theater.  She has graduate studies in education.

She is a Founder of the Village of Rye Brook, N.Y., a current Planning Board member and member of the Rye Brook Master  Plan Advisory Board.  Additionally, she is on the board of Rye Brook Together, a local civic organization. As a former Westchester County Democratic District Leader, she remains politically active in both local and country politics.
 

       PETER M. SCHOENHOLTZ, L.C.S.W, A.C.S.W.

       Mr. Schoenholtz is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence   College and Columbia University School of Social Work. Trained in individual and family dynamic psychotherapy, he maintains private offices in Washington, CT and Rye, NY, where he was a founding partner and, now, Director and President of the Westfield Day School - a co-educational, therapeutic day school for the underachieving student.

At Rye Hospital Center, he is a clinical specialist, senior consultant and Director of Social Work Services, and a member of the hospital's board of directors.

                       MOITRI DATTA, MD, FAPA:

Dr. Datta, director of Transition-Age services at the hospital, is a Fellow of the APA, and board certified in both general and child psychiatry, by the American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.  After medical graduation (MBBS) and rotating internship in Ahmedabad, India, Dr. Datta took a residency in general psychiatry at New York’s, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, followed by a fellowship in child psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. 

She has been in the private practice of Adult & Child Psychiatry in the Bronx and Scarsdale, and consultant in Child Psychiatry at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, as well as Attending at the Ittelson Child Research Center and several foster agencies in Rockland County and the Bronx. In 1981, she became Chief of the Psychiatric Inpatient Service, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center; and in 1985, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, after clinical instructorships at New York's Downstate Medical Center and Albert Einstein.

Trained in psychoanalysis, Dr. Datta has made several presentations at Winter Meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and was actively involved in child psychiatry research at Columbia University; project title: "A Study of Completed and Attempted Suicide in Adolescents."

Her activity in Transition-Age Youth Services at Rye has enabled her to be at the forefront of modern psychiatric practice for young people with emotional disabilities: to provide a seamless transition to mental health--from adolescence to young adulthood--despite the disadvantages of disabling mental illness afflicting both populations.

         JOAN M. SCHOENHOLTZ, R.N.

A member of the board of directors since 2004, Mrs. Schoenholtz was trained at Vassar Brothers Hospital School of Nursing, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She had her pediatric affiliation at Columbia-Presbyterian--Babies and Children's Hospital of N.Y.--founded in 1887, ranking today among the top children's hospitals in research, teaching, and patient care services. Her psychiatric affiliation was at Hudson River State Hospital, in Poughkeepsie, NY, under the directorship of the famous psychiatrist, Herman B. Snow, MD, who established the first open-door state hospital in New York.

She has held the positions of Head Nurse of a 36-bed Med-Surgical Unit at Vassar Brothers; Head Nurse of the Admissions Unit at the psychiatric N.Y.-Presbyterian Hospital-Westchester Division--Weill-Cornell Medical Center, in White Plains, NY; and at St. Vincent's Hospital-Westchester Division, in Harrison, NY.

In addition to her present duties at Rye Hospital Center--participating in twice-weekly clinical case conferences--she has been landscaping its gardens as a volunteer for over twenty-five years, while raising six children, and helping in the care of her seven grand-children and one great-grandchild.