Todd G. Menia, M.D. has been appointed medical director of the Emergency Department at Inter-Lakes Health in Ticonderoga, New York. Dr. Menia will be an employee of Fletcher Allen Health Care and will supervise the Inter-Lakes Health Emergency Department team in conjunction with Fletcher Allen Emergency Department Director Dr. Ray Keller and his staff.
Dr. Menia is board certified in emergency medicine and brings twenty years of experience to the position, most of which occurred in facilities throughout upstate New York including Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, Claxton Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg and most recently Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville.
Dr. Menia received his medical degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio. He is a summa cum laude graduate of SUNY Cortland.
“We are excited and grateful to have Dr. Menia join our Inter-Lakes Family,” said Chip Holmes, Inter-Lakes Health president and chief executive officer and Fletcher Allen Health Care vice president. “This is about raising the bar for emergency care in our service area and another example of the benefits our partnership with Fletcher Allen Health Care is bringing to our region.”
“Dr. Menia will play a key role in further refining the coordination of care between our two facilities, and I look forward to working with him and all of the staff at Inter-Lakes,” said Dr. Keller.
Inter-Lakes Health is a family of health services located in Ticonderoga, NY between Lake George and Lake Champlain in the Adirondack Mountains. Inter-Lakes Health is an affiliate of Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, VT. Inter-Lakes Health serves patients and residents from Essex, Warren and Washington Counties in New York, and Addison and Rutland Counties in Vermont. The not-for-profit Inter-Lakes family of service organizations includes Moses-Ludington Hospital, a 15-bed Critical Access Hospital with a 24 hour Emergency Department, Heritage Commons Residential Health Care, a 84-bed nursing home, Moses-Ludington Adult Home, a 23-bed assisted living facility, the Inter-Lakes Dental Clinic, and Lord Howe Estates, a 43-unit HUD Section 8 202 multi-family housing complex for low income elderly. The Inter-Lakes’ mission is to be a caring, community responsive health care partner promoting wellness, individual dignity, health service quality and value. The Inter-Lakes’ mission is accomplished through a coordinated continuum of quality, cost-effective health services which include acute and emergency services, assessment and referral, primary care, long- term care, restorative services, education and community outreach. To learn more, please visit the Inter-Lakes website atwww.interlakeshealth.com.
Fletcher Allen Health Care, together with our partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is Vermont’s academic medical center, serving as a regional referral center -- providing advanced care to approximately one million people in Vermont and northern New York -- and as a community hospital for approximately 150,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties.
Fletcher Allen is also a leader in the region’s health care reform efforts. The initiatives described below have the same common foundation: improving the quality and coordination of care delivered, increasing access to high-quality providers, and beginning to control the cost of providing health care to Vermonters.