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Fran Reiter of Ancram has been named to CMH Foundation Board of Trustees.

Fran Reiter of Ancram has been named to CMH Foundation Board of Trustees.

HUDSON — Columbia Memorial Health Foundation has added a new member to the Columbia Memorial Health Foundation Board of Trustees.

Fran Reiter of Ancram has been named as a new member of the Columbia Memorial Health Foundation Board of Trustees, the philanthropic arm of Columbia Memorial Health.

“I am really looking forward to it, and hope that I can be a positive force on the board and a positive force for the continued growth of the hospital,” Reiter said. “It has grown in leaps and bounds in my time here in terms of the kinds of services it offers and the array of doctors and specialists it offers.”

Reiter has been a big supporter of CMH since she first bought a house in Taghkanic she said. At that time she was not a full time resident, and she said she had cause to use the hospital on a number of different occasions for herself and for her mother who was in her 80s.

“I really came to appreciate the value, first of all the quality of the hospital, the quality of the medical care, which was astounding to me for a community hospital,” Reiter said.

Reiter, 67, moved to the area full-time in 2012.

“I just think its a wonderful community asset,” Reiter said. “That deserves everyone’s support and I’m sort of semi-retired now and in thinking about what I can give back to the community, and where my interests lay, joining the foundation board was a wonderful opportunity for me.”

After a 15-year career as a marketing executive in the television industry, Reiter served as New York City Deputy Mayor for Planning and Community Relations and, subsequently, for Economic Development and Planning. She returned to the private sector serving as President and CEO of the NYC Convention and Visitors Bureau (now NYC & Company) and Executive Director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival. In 2003, she was a founding partner of lobbying firm Reiter/Begun Associates, which merged with J. Adams Consulting in 2011, creating RG Group.

Reiter rejoined government service in November 2012 to serve as Executive Deputy Director of State Operations. She returned to RG Group in September 2014 to head the firm’s Albany office. In 2021, she retired from RG Group and established Reiter Consulting, LLC, providing strategic advisement to businesses and organizations doing or seeking to do business with New York City and State government.

“I don’t know that there’s any more important community institution or organization then having a really quality medical facility, and all of the clinics and all of the other things they do.” Reiter said. “I’m really looking forward to being a part of that and helping it grow.”

Reiter said she thinks she has a good skill set to develop new donors are there are a lot of new people who moved to the area during the pandemic.

“My approach to being on the board is going to be more focused on helping to figure out how to achieve the goals that the foundation undertakes,” Reiter said. “I gather that there are many board members who are very committed to doing events that raise a good deal of money for what the foundation does and what it funds. I’m a little bit more on the strategic side, although I think my communications skills, my political skills, I think make me a player for trying to reach out to people.”

Reiter has been an adjunct professor at New York University and the Baruch College School of Public Affairs and has been has been a guest lecturer at NYU, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. Over the course of her career, she has served on a number of not -for-profit boards. and holds a B.S. in Public Affairs from the City University of New York.

“Fran Reiter will bring invaluable creativity and expertise to our Board, ensuring that CMH will continue to provide quality and compassionate care close to home,” Columbia Memorial Health Foundation chairwoman Anne Schomaker said in a statement. “We are most grateful to Fran for her commitment of time and resources that she brings to CMH.”

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