MERCY MEDICAL CENTER NAMES DANIEL G. MURPHY, MD SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PATIENT CARE OPERATIONS
Responsibilities Include Center for Geriatric Excellence Program

(June 19, 2008 - Rockville Centre, NY) - Mercy Medical Center has appointed Daniel G. Murphy, MD as Senior Director of Patient Care Operations. In the newly-created position, Dr. Murphy is part of the medical center’s Executive Staff and responsible for all services provided by Mercy’s hospitalists, in-house physicians who specialize in managing the care of hospital patients.
Dr. Murphy also is supervising the Center for Geriatric Excellence program, which provides enhanced care and coordination of services for patients admitted to Mercy from skilled nursing facilities.

Dr. Murphy, who resides in Garden City, has been Director of Emergency Medicine since 2004 and will continue in that role as well. He joined Mercy from Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, where he was Vice Chairman and Medical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine. His two decades of experience in emergency and trauma care include earlier positions as Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Resurrection Medical Center, and Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital, both in Chicago.

Dr. Murphy is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine. A graduate of Georgetown University, he received his medical degree from the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School and earned an MBA from Hofstra University.

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Contact: Mel Granick
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