westfaironline.com January 30, 2023
‘WOMEN IN POWER’ PANEL SEEKS THE HOLY GRAIL – WORK/LIFE BALANCE
From left: Chelsea Rosen, an audit partner with Citrin Cooperman, moderated the “Women in Power” event at Manhattanville College Jan. 24, with panelists Sally A. Paull, executive vice president of human resources at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals; Susan Fox, president and CEO of White Plains Hospital; and Cynthia R. “Cindi” Bigelow, president and CEO of Bigelow Tea. Photograph by Sarafina Pavlak.
BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA ggouveia@westfairinc.com
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sked if they had attained a work/life balance, many, if not most, of the 160 attendees of the Jan. 24 “Women in Power” panel at Purchase’s Manhattanville College raised a hand. But when asked if they’d like more of a work/life balance, about the same number of
BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com
Elizabeth Seton proposes $118M center in White Plains
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lizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, also known as Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center, wants to build a $118 million facility in White Plains to help it care for medically fragile young adults between the ages of 18 and
hands went up — from the same people, as one humorous observer noted at the Reid Castle breakfast event, presented by White Plains-based Citrin Cooperman, one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, and Westfair Communications Inc., parent company of the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals. The event marked its return after a Covid absence of three years.
Work/life balance has long been the complex, controversial Holy Grail of the workforce, never more so than in the age of Covid, which has produced a new work culture with its own lexicon — “remote work,” “coworking” and “quiet quitting.” And never more so for women, still considered the point persons for childcare. Not surprisingly, the good-humored,
35. The proposed facility would have 96 beds. It has applied to the city of White Plains for a zoning change for a section of an approximately 23-acre property on North Street. At one time, the property was home to St. Agnes Hospital. The Bristal at White Plains, an assisted living and memory care facil-
ity is among the facilities now located there. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Foundation Ltd. owns approximately 5.29-acres that are home to the Elizabeth Seton Children’s School and its Children’s Rehabilitation Center. It plans to acquire another 4 acres at the location that currently are approved
‘WOMEN IN POWER’
ELIZABETH SETON
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