Rachel Silberstein is reporting for the Times Union Albany Med Health System and Columbia Memorial Health boards announced October 10, CMH President and CEO Jay P. Cahalan [Cah-HAY-lan] will retire by the end of the year. He will be succeeded by the hospital's current chief operating officer Dorothy M. Urschel. Cahalan has led the hospital since 2013. During his tenure he changed the way CMH delivered care by developing a network of community-based primary and multi-specialty providers in addition to hospital-based services, officials said. He was instrumental in the acquisition of the Greene Medical Arts Center, which preserved access to specialty care in Catskill, and the addition of physician practices in Tannersville, Coxsackie, Cairo, and Catskill to CMH. He was directly involved in significant additions to the main Hudson campus, including the construction of the Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation Medical Office Building and the Kneller wing. CMH also extended new medical services to Valatie and Copake during Cahalan’s tenure. In 2016, CMH was affiliated with Albany Medical Center. The two hospitals became the first members of what is now the Albany Med Health System. In 2019, CMH terminated its childbirth services, forcing pregnant women in Greene and Columbia counties to travel to Albany for labor and delivery. Cahalan sat on the Greene County Rural Health board, and will remain a member of the boards of the Bank of Greene County and the Kaaterskill Commons. Urschel began her career as a critical care nurse and thoracic surgery nurse practitioner at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also worked as an acute care cardiac surgery nurse practitioner with Kaleida Health in Buffalo. Urschel came to CMH in 2020 as chief operating officer. Read the full story in the Times Union.