Why Gustavo Stringel Practices at Westchester Medical Center

Internationally known, oft-honored Gustavo Stringel, M.D., could practice medicine most anywhere in the world, but he has shared his considerable skills at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York for 18 years. Why? The Surgeon in Chief and Director of Pediatric Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the center’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, he joins other top physicians treating patients in a 5,000-square-mile area that includes 3.6 million people. Gustavo Stringel and his colleagues work in the area’s designated Trauma and Tertiary/Quaternary Care Center and the New York metropolitan area’s only all-specialty children’s hospital.

Westchester Medical Center began in 1918 as a United States Army hospital set up in county buildings to treat troops during the Spanish influenza epidemic. Returned to the county government in 1920, the facility became known as Grasslands Hospital. The original hospital closed in 1977 to accommodate Westchester Medical Center, a regional academic medical institution that became independent from the county in 1998. The center’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, where Dr. Stringel operates (literally), includes a Pediatric Asthma Clinical Research Center, one of only five in the country. The institution’s Transplant Center has performed more than 2,000 procedures.

In addition, the Westchester medical facility is the only comprehensive stroke and critical-care hyperbaric center in the region and the only burn center between New York City and the eastern New York border of Canada. Westchester Medical Center also serves as the region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Recognized by the National Research Corporation in 2011 and 2012 with a Consumer Choice Award for the Highest Quality in the New York metropolitan area, the institution has earned repeated Excellence Awards from HealthGrades, Inc., in cardiac and bariatric surgery and numerous other prestigious awards. In sum, that’s why Gustavo Stringel, M.D., works at Westchester Medical Center.