Clifton—The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Daughters of Miriam Center is pleased to announce the appointment of board member Andrew Kanter to the Executive Committee as vice president and the appointment of two new members to the board, Michael C. Rudolph and Steven J. Weisholtz. The new trustees were welcomed to Daughters of Miriam Center at the Annual Board of Trustees Dinner.
Kanter is the owner/Vice President of the Hertz Passaic/Clifton Driv-UR-Self Systems, Inc., a family-owned Hertz franchise for over 50 years. Three generations of family members have helped to grow the business now that Kanter’s son Jared works alongside his father. All told, the Kanter family has been involved in the Passaic/Clifton area for over 100 years through business and community ventures.
Kanter received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Appointed to the Daughters of Miriam Center’s board in 2004, he now serves as co-chairman of the golf classic. He was a former member of the Passaic Beth Israel Hospital and Foundation boards and served as chairman of their golf outing.
Rudolph has been an attorney in New Jersey for more than 51 years. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University and his law degree from the NYU School of Law. After working as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey and at a Newark law firm, he joined a firm in Wayne where he practiced law for more than 20 years before moving to a law firm in Oakland. Rudolph eventually opened a solo practice concentrating on estate and elder-law planning, guardianships, estate administration and real estate transactions. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Passaic and Morris County Bar Associations and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
A very active member of the community, Rudolph currently is a member and past president of the Wayne Rotary Club, where he was a five-time recipient of the Rotary’s Paul Harris Award and The Walter Head Award. He is a past trustee and past Chair of the Rotary’s Walter Head Foundatio, a founder and trustee of the Information Network on Aging, a trustee and general counsel to the Wayne Adult Community Center, a member of both Chilton Neighbors for Better Health and the Chilton Community Health Advisory Committee and a member of the Tri-County Chamber of Commerce. Rudolph is a member of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne and was legal advisor to its Board of Trustees for almost 30 years.
Previously, he served as a member of the Wayne Board of Education and Assistant Wayne Township Attorney, a trustee of the Foundation for the Handicapped, a member of the Hospice Advisory Committee of Passaic County, a 20-year trustee of the Passaic County Legal Aid Society and president for five years. In 1992, Rudolph was one of two attorneys in New Jersey to be awarded the Equal Justice Medal by Legal Services of New Jersey for service to the poor.
Dr. Steven J. Weisholtz graduated from Brown University magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and then did a medical residency and fellowship in infectious diseases at The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. For the past 33 years Weisholtz has been practicing internal medicine and infectious disease in Englewood, NJ where he maintains an active internal medicine and consultative infectious disease practice with a special interest in HIV, chronic viral hepatitis, osteomyelitis and difficult diagnostic problems.
Weisholtz has been honored numerous times as one of New York and New Jersey Magazines “Top Doctors” as well as in annual listings in Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors for the New York Metropolitan area. He has also been named a Compassionate Physician by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. He currently serves as a clinical assistant professor at UMDNJ and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and has co-authored many abstracts and publications as well as a medical book.
Weisholtz has been an active leader in the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, serving as Chief of the Infectious Disease division for many years and also spearheading infection control policies and antibiotic utilization. In addition, he has served as president of the medical staff and on the executive board of the hospital.
Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute is a state-of-the-art long-term care and subacute facility providing broad-based services to seniors. Emphasizing a continuum-of-care focus, Center divisions include a skilled nursing facility, a subacute care wing, a dementia-care pavilion, a rehabilitation program, a sheltered workshop, hospice care, a respite program and senior housing with supportive services.
Founded in 1921, the Center is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and serves as a university-affiliated teaching center.
The Center’s mission is to provide quality health care services and housing for seniors in an environment that enhances and respects individualized traditions and lifestyles.
