Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner Joins Winchester Hospital
Melissa Donais, RN, NP
Winchester, Mass. – Winchester Hospital has welcomed a new family medicine nurse practitioner. A resident of Andover, Melissa Donais, RN, NP is practicing alongside J. Patrick Ordonez, MD at North Reading Medical Associates.
Donais earned her registered nurse and family nurse practitioner certifications from Boston College in Boston. She earned her bachelor’s degree with distinction from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where she won the prestigious Lily Rosen Prize in Women’s Health. Her clinical experience includes providing outpatient care at the Isham Health Center at Phillips Academy in Andover.
Hospital Radiologist Inducted as Fellow in American College of Radiology
John S. Dubrow, MD
Winchester, Mass. – Winchester Hospital radiologist John S. Dubrow, MD has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR) for his history of service to the organization, organized radiology and research. This distinction is awarded to only about 10 percent of the 34,000 ACR members in America, who include radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, interventional radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians.
Dr. Dubrow, who is an associate of North Shore Radiological Associates Inc. in Stoneham, is president of the Massachusetts Radiological Society (MRS) in Waltham. A member of the MRS Executive Committee since 2003, he is co-chair of the MRS Fellowship Committee and chair of the MRS Legislative Affairs Committee.
Dr. Dubrow is also a councilor to the ACR representing Massachusetts, a member of the ACR Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Committee and secretary of the ACR Family Equality Council’s Board of Directors.
In past years, Dr. Dubrow has been a member of the State Legislative Committee on Ambulatory SurgiCenters and New Innovative Technologies. He served as a Reference Committee member at the 2006 ACR Annual Meeting.
Dr. Dubrow earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and his bachelor’s degree from Boston University in Boston. He lives in Weston.
New ED Nurse Manager for Somerville Hospital Campus
Be-Verlyn Navarro, RN
Cambridge, MA – Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), has appointed Be-Verlyn Navarro, RN, as the new Emergency Department (ED) Nurse Manager for its Somerville Hospital campus.
Navarro has been a valuable asset to the CHA community since her arrival as a board-certified ED staff nurse at CHA’s Whidden Hospital campus in 2006. She advanced to a managerial role in 2009.
Her clinical and administrative experience will enhance the care provided at the 24-hour Somerville Hospital ED, which, by many metrics, ranks among the best in the nation. Over the past three months, the ED’s Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores ranked it first in Massachusetts and among the top 10 EDs nationally. New rapid assessment protocols ensure that patients are seen by a nurse within two minutes of arrival and by a doctor in an average of 20 minutes, making Somerville one of the fastest emergency departments in the country.
