Griffin Hospital's Patient Family Advisory Council welcomes new members

Griffin Hospital’s Patient Family Advisory Council is designed to provide valuable patient and family insight into the care and services provided at the hospital./ Contributed photo

DERBY - Griffin Hospital recently welcomed the newest members to a council of community members that help the hospital meet its mission for exceptional, person-centered care.

Laurel May and Larry Dobitas of Trumbull, and Louis Watson of Milford, joined Griffin Hospital’s Patient Family Advisory Council this year.

The Council is designed to provide valuable patient/family insight to care and services provided. As either former patients themselves or family members of patients, the 14-member Council is charged with providing real-time feedback/insight with the goal of enhancing hospital services and programs. 
The Council partners with the hospital to assist in maintaining its patient-center care focus.

Each month, members learn about various hospital programs and services through presentations, receive hospital updates on performance metrics such as patient experience, safety, financial and projects and provides input/options on new programs and services under consideration and share feedback. 

Current members include: Ansonia residents Horace Behrle, Fran DiGiorgi, Nadine Civitella, Alfred Pettit, Joseph Skrabl, and Rita St. Jacques; Anne Keane of Shelton; David Erhardt of Derby; Kenneth Hawkins of Milford; Nicole Levine of Oxford; Natasha Koonce-Webster of Hamden; and Robert Newton of Seymour.

The Patient Family Advisory Council is just one of many ways individuals in the community can serve in contributing to the hospital’s mission of providing personalized, humanistic, consumer- driven healthcare in a healing environment.

Griffin Hospital is a full-service, 160 bed not-for-profit acute care community hospital committed to providing high quality, state-of-the-art medical care in a healing, nurturing environment.  
Griffin has earned local, national, and international recognition and praise for its unique facility, innovative programs and services, and patient-centered Planetree model of care.

For more information about Griffin Hospital, the Patient Family Advisory Council and volunteer opportunities call 203-732-7555 or visit griffinhealth.org/patient-family-advisory-council.

This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.