Lorraine is pictured here with Professor Sakeena Yacoobi of AIL - Afghan Institute for Learning and Creating Hope International.   Professor Yacoobi  spoke to  leaders from “across the generations”  about the power they possessed to change the way we live in the world.  She spoke of her mission in Afghanistan and of the more than 150 underground schools that are now functioning under her leadership with the sole goal to teach women and children.

 

Join Salmon Holdings as a proud sponsor to this cause – and visit www.CreatingHope.org for more information on how you can help.

Left: Salmon Holdings, LLC a sponsor for  St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital’s successful charitable event. "Nearly 200 guests participated in Saint Luke's Cornwall Hospital's Seventh Annual Golf Outing held recently at Branton Woods Golf Club in Hopewell Junction." View Photo/Article

 

Left: Alicia Collins, Salmon Holdings, LLC. consultant and Vincent Ceparano, Project Manager of Hunter Roberts Construction Group at St. Lukes Cornwall Hospital Annual Gala. Sept. 2009

From left: Salmon Holding's consultants: Nancy Peers, Kalyn Fisher, Lorraine Salmon - Principal, Lindsey VanEtten, Bernadette Thompson, Kelly McGuire. Center: Alfred E. Smith IV, Chairman of the Board, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York.

 

Right: Salmon Holdings' consultant Bernadette Thompson with Eli Manning, quarterback for the New York Giants.

Left: Mindy Sayres, GZA Environmental, Bernadette Thompson, Lorraine Salmon and Nancy Peers

 

Right: Keith Cephas, Gerard Connolly, Nancy Peers, Austin Thompson, Patrick Lynch.

Lorraine Salmon: Principal, Salmon Holdings LLC., William J. Gilbane, III: Gillbane Inc., Thom Filicia, Bernadette Thompson: Salmon Holdings LLC., Karen Brady: SVCMC Foundation, and Marc E. Szafran: Thom Felicia Inc.

The Saint Vincent's Trauma and Wellness Center, formerly known as World Trade Center Healing Services, has moved to a new, larger office at 170 Broadway. While most 9/11 programs have shut down, the Trauma and Wellness Center is continuing to offer services in Lower Manhattan, and is now the only 9/11-focused program for all affected New York City residents.

Lorraine Salmon, broker (left, above), and Bernadette Thompson, real estate salesperson (left, below), worked with the client’s management and the Landlord’s representatives to secure the lease premise and coordinate the relocation efforts. 

 

Salmon Holdings, LLC. provided recommendations for relocation and served as owner's representative completing negotiation of rents, submission of board approval documents, review of lease documents, and coordination of the relocation of staff and the closure of the previous site operations.

Left: Bernadette Thompson, Salmon Holdings consultant with Eli Manning, quarterback for the New York Giants at the 2007 Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center Gala.

 

Bottom left: Bernadette Thompson, Lorraine Salmon, Doreen DeCarolis and Alicia Collins.

 

Bottom center: Lorraine Salmon, Principal of Salmon Holdings, LLC. and Guy Sansone, CEO, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York

 

Bottom right: Lorraine Salmon and Alfred E. Smith IV, Chairman of the Board, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York

Mandy's complaints were echoed yesterday by Lorraine Salmon of Kingston Regional Health Care. The center wants to build the project on about 90 acres of land off North Putt Corners Road. VIEW ARTICLE

“Jitters over the election of Jason West and two other Green Party members to the Village Board have rocked plans for a $72 million retirement home. "I wanted to know if they are supportive of the project, because if they are not, it could slow us down to the point of threatening the project," Lorraine Salmon said yesterday. Salmon is spearheading the project for Kingston Regional Health Care system, the project developer. KRH is the parent company of Kingston Hospital, one of Ulster County's largest employers.” VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon, Kingston Regional Health Care System's vice president for real estate and development, told village Planning Board members last week that due to the cost of the fee and other expenses involved in the planning approval process... VIEW ARTICLE

"It's crucial," said Lorraine Salmon, president of the Ulster County Development Corporation. "All of the larger companies that are looking to relocate, are looking for affordable real estate, a strong labor market and high-speed access." VIEW ARTICLE

According to Lorraine Salmon, vice president for real estate and development for Kingston Regional, the assisted-living and skilled-nursing facilities are health care facilities not subject to taxation under current state law. The independent-living cottages and apartments would be taxable as assessed by the town. VIEW ARTICLE

KeyBank named Lorraine Salmon, vice president of Kingston Regional Health Care System, to the bank's advisory board. Salmon is also vice chair of the Ulster Community College Foundation board. VIEW ARTICLE

Unlike traditional senior housing or nursing homes, senior citizens buy into the community, and have access to enhanced medical services without having to leave the community. Residents who move from cottages to assisted living or nursing residences would not pay higher housing costs, according to Lorraine Salmon, vice president for real estate and development for Kingston Regional Health. VIEW ARTICLE

Salmon said that unlike traditional senior housing, continuing-care communities allow residents to age within the community. If healthcare needs increase, residents can move from the cottages to the enriched housing residences and, if necessary, to the skilled nursing rooms without increased costs. VIEW ARTICLE

The panel also heard from a doctor at Pine Street Pediatrics as well as Anthony Marmo, chief executive officer of Kingston Hospital, and Lorraine Salmon, president of Kingston Regional Healthcare System Properties Inc. The health care system submitted a competing proposal in conjunction with Pine Street Professional Condominiums. VIEW ARTICLE

"This is very preliminary, and we just want to put forward the whole concept," Lorraine Salmon, the health system's vice president of real estate and development, said before the event. " This gives us the ability to start giving some thought to that range of living," from independent apartments to full nursing-home care.

 

Salmon said few retirement alternatives exist in the Mid-Hudson Valley that provide a full continuum of care. VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon was appointed vice president of Kingston Regional Health Care System. Salmon will be responsible for the management of real estate and will be working to create new business opportunities to further grow the system. VIEW ARTICLE

"The economic benefits of this project are widespread and have not all been explored yet," said Salmon. "It would be unfair to all of the taxpayers not to let the process continue." VIEW ARTICLE

According to Lorraine Salmon, interim president of the economic development agency, the county's contribution to the campaign will be matched by $275,000 in private industry funds and other contributions.

Salmon said the $400,000 intensive marketing strategy will target Silicon Valley technology companies that want to expand but are limited by California's lack of a reliable power supply and other resources necessary for expansion. Through a multimedia advertising campaign, Salmon said, the Greater Ulster Power Alliance plan will pitch the area's low-cost and abundant energy, available land and water supply, and proximity to major metropolitan areas. VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon will become the vice president of Real Estate and Business Development for the Kingston Regional Healthcare System on May 21. She will be moving to Kingston Hospital's parent company from her post as interim president of the Ulster County Development Corporation, where she is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors. "I'm still in healthcare, construction, finance and development, which is my most relevant background," Salmon said Tuesday. VIEW ARTICLE

Salmon said the fee will end up being passed on to city residents using the high-speed network. "Don't tax your taxpayers," Salmon said.

 

Company officials have said Phase 1 of the project, which will run from Kingston to Modena, could be completed in late spring. But Salmon said by instituting a fee, lawmakers would pose a "significant risk of slowing down progress." VIEW ARTICLE

Salmon is former director of facilities for Healthcare Associates of Lake Katrine where she played a key role in the shepherding of the Northeast Center for Special Care, residential health-care facility that employs more than 400 people, through a long approval and building process. Previously, she had been Hudson Valley property manager for Edgewater Management Company, a developer.

 

Salmon headed the UCDC board for just over a year. VIEW ARTICLE

The corporation enlisted Lorraine Salmon, the chairwoman of its board, to fill the position for at least 60 days while the hiring process takes place. Salmon accepted the post of interim president and stepped down from her position as board chair, but she has not put her name in the running for the permanent job.

 

She was formerly the director of facilities for Healthcare Associates and the Northeast Center for Special Care in Lake Katrine, a position she left to pursue other interests and opportunities. She has offered her services to the county agency for not less than 60 days. VIEW ARTICLE

Salmon's comments were part of an agency overview presented at the first meeting of the county's newly created Economic Development Committee. VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon has had the unique experience of being on almost every side of a development deal. She feels that the opportunities placed before her, her exposure to community and board work, many successful business friendships and support of her family have all been integral pieces of her success in Ulster County.

 

...the devil, as always, lay in the details. Salmon spoke casually of 16 and 20-hour days, a four-year approval process and a final real estate closing process that ran 48 hours with only five hours of sleep during a break.

"Those days were exhausting," she said, "but I learned a lot about business, real estate, and myself. I learned what my breaking point..." VIEW ARTICLE

"Having worked as board chair, I'm certainly familiar with our past initiatives, and our plans looking forward to 2001," Salmon said. "Having worked from the developer's end, I think I have a good inside feeling of what it takes to put a deal together and work with people." VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon, board president of Ulster County Development Corp., put a twist on the half-full/half-empty glass theory at the corporation's 4th annual dinner Wednesday night.

 

Dinner reflects on past, future. The Ulster County Development Corp's fourth annual event highlights economic development and looks at what lies ahead. VIEW ARTICLE

Standing at the podium holding a glass half-filled with water, most people thought Ulster County Development Corporation Board President Lorraine Salmon would probably launch into that old story about the "glass being half full," as she discussed the non-profit development corporation's prospect for the new year.

 

But she kept pouring. And as she poured, and the water gushed out of the glass and down into the strategically placed saucer below, she quipped: "That's what we're going to do, I guarantee that some people will look at it and say - 'you spilled it!" It was an apt visual metaphor for the public relations problems the agency has experienced in the past few months as Basicorp - in the face of unrelenting public protest in every community with which it opened a discussion - pulled out of a proposal to build a $500 million power generating facility in Ulster County. The agency took more flak...VIEW ARTICLE

Three years ago, UCDC increased funding and staff, empowering a staff of five to lead economic development efforts. Since then, employment in Ulster County has increased by 9,600. Expansion and relocation investments in Ulster County during this period exceed $196,000,000. Of this amount, some $90,000,000 was invested in 1999. While efforts to bring Empire-Besicorp and Corning ... VIEW ARTICLE

With the arrival of the new millennium comes a new business objective for the Ulster County Development Corporation: to create new, higher paying jobs and corporate and private investment from a diversification of industries in multiple locations throughout the county. VIEW ARTICLE

The Northeast Center for Special Care received the American Horticulture Therapy Association's 1999 Therapeutic Garden Design Award for its Eden environments.

 

Its Eden environments were developed and directed by Healthcare Associates Chief Executive Officer Anthony Salerno, Project/Design Manager Lorraine Salmon and project architect John Hall of the DeWolff Partnership. Interior landscape architect, David Kamp, of Dirtworks, Inc., New York City, provided the original Eden and horticultural design. VIEW ARTICLE

Regarding development of the only state-of-the-art center of its kind in New York State that is specially programmed for the mission of extended recovery, rehabilitation and community re-entry of individuals with acquired brain injury, neurobehavioral challenges, ventilator dependency care and multiple impairments requiring special care:

"No one in New York had ever converted an office building to a full-scale residential health facility, but the regulators and the developers were up to the challenge. Our Healthcare Associates project management team, headed by Director of Facilities Lorraine Salmon, took advantage of the project's location in an economic development zone, and the project was benefited by the activism and competence of the local, state and federal development agencies.”

 

"Our design philosophy is: Design it and build it for your customers and their families. Make it a place where staff want to be. Make every space a workspace and an activity space and a living space. If it breathes life, it will enhance life. Institutions must become community based in every way - if it's big enough to be an institution, then it's big enough to be a community. Bring the community into the facility and bring the facility into the community." VIEW ARTICLE

"These people who have had the worst break in life are coming in the door here to get well." Lorraine Salmon, Director of Facilities. VIEW ARTICLE

Listening to Linda Nelson speak Tuesday at the Northeast Center for Special Care are, from left, Lorraine Salmon of Healthcare Associates, Healthcare Chief Executive Officer Anthony Salerno, town of Ulster Supervisor Andy LaBarge, Kingston Mayor T. R. Gallo, state Sen. John Bonacic, Gov. George Pataki and state Sen. William Larkin. VIEW ARTICLE

The facility, six years in the making, may be the largest in the world devoted to the care of traumatically brain-injured persons and people with neurobehavioral disorders. Dramatic though all the impressive architecture, new equipment and careful staffing is, though, it's the ambition of the place that is nothing short of breathtaking.

 

The goal of this facility is recovery, rehabilitation and re-entry into society of its clients. At most other facilities where the goal is similar, there's a vast gap between goal and practice. Cruel as it may be to say so, many such places function more as warehouses for the traumatically brain-injured. This one won't. VIEW ARTICLE

Neuro-Medical Advisory Board to guide Center's development. By Nancy Peers, Director of Planning. VIEW ARTICLE

Left: Director of Facilities at the Care Center, Lorraine Salmon stands in one of four Eden rooms.

 

The development process for the Northeast Center for Special Care has been a public-private partnership. When a project is of such vital importance to the residents of an area and the state, it is necessary for the public entities to assist in development and financing. Proudly and with sincere appreciation, we recognize the key contributions made by Ulster County and our private and public partners. VIEW ARTICLE

Tony Salerno and Lorraine Salmon

By building a center specifically to meet these patients' needs and creating critical mass at the facility, Salerno says he can attract the best and brightest in the field and can ultimately do a better job rehabilitating these patients. "Especially given the economic constraints of today's healthcare industry," he says. (Healthcare Associates CEO Tony Salerno) VIEW ARTICLE

The center will have 200 beds for persons with traumatic brain injuries, 40 beds for brain-injured persons needing the use of a ventilator and 40 beds in the Neuro Behavioral Intervention Unit.

 

The latter quad is designed for brain-injured people who may be inclined to odd behavior or otherwise "need to be protected from themselves," Salmon said. This section has been designed to protect both residents and the neighborhood. The...VIEW ARTICLE

One might think that Anthony Salerno, chief executive and chief visionary of Healthcare Associates, whose core business is the management of a number of nursing homes around the state, exerted some restraint on the "Edenizing" process. Not true, said Salmon. He came up with some of the wilder suggestions himself. If anything, she said, it was he who needed to be restrained. " Tony encourages us to have no limits," Salmon said. VIEW ARTICLE

Left: Healthcare Associates facilities manager Lorraine Salmon in what will be a room for HRVCC patients.

 

If the Kingston economy, now on a gentle upswing buoyed by the healthy national economy, is going to continue to improve, it is going to have to create a more diverse job base. Hopefully, that will mean more innovative and higher-paying work. It'll also mean increasing variety in the types of enterprises creating work in the area. Local economic leaders seem at least to have learned from IBM's departure the painful lesson that excessive dependence on one important industry is extremely unhealthy to a community economy. VIEW ARTICLE

Surrounded by members of local government, Gov. George E. Pataki speaks at a ground-breaking ceremony for a traumatic brain injury center in Kingston. The center is being constructed at the site of the former IBM building and is slated to open in the spring of 1999. VIEW ARTICLE

Left: Lorraine Salmon, Director of Facilities for Healthcare Associates with Gov. George E. Pataki, Senator William J. Larkin and Tony Salerno, Owner of Healthcare Associates

This project offers the single biggest infusion of full-time jobs - about 300 - that Ulster County has seen in years. Upgrading the building to a state-of-the-art center alone will pump up to $17 million into the local and regional economies.

 

"It's been lingering on for four years," Town of Ulster Supervisor Andrus LeBarge said of efforts to begin construction of the center. "We're looking at a $25 million payroll," said Lorraine Salmon, Healthcare Associates' director of facilities. "We're going to hire well before the facility opens, and we expect to hire many local people."

 

Such an ambitious project could not have come at a better time. The shutdown of the IBM complex three years ago left deep economic scars.

 

The center will treat all levels of injury, said Lorraine Salmon, facilities director for Healthcare Associates. Each year, some 70,000 people in the United States sustain head injuries that result in significant long-term impairment.VIEW ARTICLE

It will be a place to care for brain injuries, but yesterday was about heart.

With tears in their eyes, Anthony Salerno and Lorraine Salmon of Healthcare Associates thanked a roomful of government officials, business leaders, economic developers and patient advocates for their help.

"These patients have had something taken away from them and we're going to help give it back," said company president Salerno.

It was an emotional conclusion to four and a half years of perseverance by the developers to complete the financing and regulatory approvals for the project that ran into numerous obstacles. VIEW ARTICLE

Photo above: Tony Salerno, president of Healthcare Associates, is congratulated with a toast of sparkling cider at a welcoming ceremony for the Hudson River Valley Care Center. Lorraine Salmon, second from left.

Lorraine Salmon, director of facilities at the Hudson Valley River Care Center, thanks Gov. George Pataki and state Sen. Bill Larkin. At right is Tony Salerno, president and CEO of Healthcare Associates. VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon, (Healthcare Associates Director of Facilities and Development Project Manager), Tony Salerno (Owner) and Nancy Peers (Healthcare Associates DOH Regulatory and Compliance Director) at the groundbreaking of the Northeast Center for Special Care. 

Above: Lorraine Salmon (Healthcare Associates, Director of Facilities and Development Project Manager), A. Joseph Scott, Esq. (IDA Counsel Hodgson Russ LLP, Albany, NY) and Tony Salerno (Owner)

At 11:50 on Tuesday night, said Lorraine Salmon of Healthcare Associates, the parties involved in the grueling two-day closing on the head trauma center project that will bring 412 mostly well-paying jobs to Ulster County, were still negotiating. One and a half minutes before midnight "it was over." After four years of effort, the project was a reality.

 

Various politicians praised Salerno's tenacity and "stick-to-itiveness." "If you wrote a book about this project," said assemblyman John Guerin, "it would be longer than War and Peace. It would be longer than the bible."

After Salmon had put her head on the table and burst into tears, Salerno struggled to find some final words to describe his own feelings. His thoughts were with the patients who would now have the facility he had dreamed of for years. "They've had something taken away," he said slowly, his voice almost breaking, "and we're going to get it back." VIEW ARTICLE

12:20 AM – Closing: Counsel Team after midnight of Day 2 -  A. Joseph Scott, Esq. Hodgson Russ LLP, Albany, NY (bottom row – second from left)  Counsel for Ulster County IDA at the Closing for the Northeast Center for Special Care (L. Salmon center)

Foreground: Cathy Martinez and Lorraine Salmon, Healthcare Associates

Background: Jim Woods, Sutton Companies and El Chino Martin, AFLCIO Housing Investment Truct (Lender counsel) Closing Work-Room

Edwin J. Kelley, Esq, BS&K, Lorraine Salmon, Development Project Manager, Tony Salerno (Owner) and Bob Moses, Esq., BS&K at the Closing for the Northeast Center for Special Care.

Lorraine leads development team for traumatic brain injury center: The Center, the first of its kind in New York, also will provide a unique service, Alfonso said. Patients with traumatic head injuries have been cared for at nursing homes or out of state. VIEW ARTICLE

Town Assessor James Maloney said Thursday that Long Island-based Healthcare Associates, which plans to open the 280-bed facility in a building formerly occupied by IBM, has agreed to a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, plan worth $20.5 milling over 30 years.

 

Healthcare spokeswoman Lorraine Salmon would not discuss specifics of the PILOT deal on Thursday but said she was confident that the head trauma center now can be built. VIEW ARTICLE

The town and developers reached agreement on the payments Wednesday night, according to Councilman Orvil Norman. Lorraine Salmon, director of facilities for developer Healthcare Associates, said the agreement will clear the way for construction to begin in October. VIEW ARTICLE

A company with a pioneering method of caring for brain-injury survivors has selected the Mid-Hudson region for its new head-trauma center. Healthcare Associates' visionary plan to promote head-trauma healing in so-called "Eden Environments" will mean up to 400 new jobs moving into the former IBM complex within the Kingston-Ulster County Economic Development Zone (EDZ).

 

Plans for the 280-bed facility in Lake Katrine, N.Y., include lush indoor gardens; restaurants; patient apartments; as well as the therapeutic presence of birds, cats, dogs and other animals. Featuring an innovative design centered around four atria, the facility will be the latest to be operated in the state within the Healthcare Associates network, a proprietary group of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. VIEW ARTICLE

Salerno said the project manager for the center will be Lorraine Salmon, who is leaving Edgewater to work for Healthcare Associates. The project management office will be on Lohmaier Lane in Lake Katrine. The renovation of the building is expected to employ 150 to 200 people and cost more than $41 million. VIEW ARTICLE

Edgewater's regional property manager, Lorraine Salmon, told Planning Board members and about 30 people in attendance that she hopes to have state approval in June.

 

The trauma center would occupy 208,000 square feet in former IBM building 941, a building on the ...VIEW ARTICLE

Lorraine Salmon, Hudson Valley property manager for Edgewater Properties, talks with John Garrett McDonald, a Rhinebeck lawyer, during Monday's EDZ summit. VIEW ARTICLE