New York’s newest medical college launches in Middletown

MIDDLETOWN – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine officially launched Tuesday afternoon with a ceremony highlighting the ‘win-win-win’ relationship between the college, the City of Middletown, and the Hudson Valley region.

“Demonstrating a continued investment in New York and our students” is how Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy defined it during remarks at the former Horton Hospital in Middletown.

“This is a triple crown of projects”, said Duffy. Number one, it’s going to improve education. It’s going to have up to 500 medical students at any given time here on this great campus when it’s at full capacity. Number two, as I mentioned, it’s going to improve regional healthcare. All the doctors that it will graduate from this great school will stay in this region, will stay and provide healthcare to counties, Orange County, but all the surrounding in the Mid-Hudson region. That’s a great one. And three is regional economic development.”

Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish said this is the beginning of something big.

“I truly believe that if we come back here in five years, what we’ll see is a vibrant place, with hundreds of new jobs, hundreds and hundreds of new medical students, state of the art medical education innovative techniques”, Kadish said.

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