New positions in health care

Lynn Drucker, left, has been named director of development at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola. She was most recently senior vice president at Abilities! in Albertson and lives in Merrick.

Janine Logan, right, has been appointed director of communications for the Suburban Hospital Alliance, the joint advocacy arm of the Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association and the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council. The Babylon resident had been communications director at Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council since 2002.

North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center announced the appointment of Dr. Harold L. Rekate  to director of the Chiari Institute within the hospitals' department of neurosurgery. Dr. Rekate of Locust Manor was chairman of pediatric neurosciences and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute, part of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.

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