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The founding president of Westmed Medical Group, Dr. Simeon A. Schwartz, has retired from the multispecialty group practice, a spokesperson for the group headquartered in Purchase said.
A hematologist and oncologist, Schwartz led the formation of what was then the Westchester Medical Group by 15 physicians in 1996. Operating on a pioneering model of community-based, one-stop outpatient medical clinics - polyclinics, as Schwartz described them - and an early adopter of electronic health records and patient information networks, the physician-owned...