GNYHA is deeply saddened by the passing of beloved colleague and friend Fred Alley on March 24, 2007. A former GNYHA Chairman and longtime President and CEO of The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Mr. Alley was a charismatic leader whose talent and kindness earned him the respect and admiration of countless peers both in New York and nationally. After beginning his long career in health care management at Hackensack Hospital, he joined The Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he spent 34 years. He was a former Chairman of the Healthcare Association of New York State and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Hospital Association (AHA), as well as Chairman of the AHA's Regional Policy Board; founding Director and first Chairman of HealthFirst, Inc.; Director and past Chairman of the Board of Voluntary Hospitals of America, Metro New York, Inc.; and founder, past Chairman, and Director of Combined Coordinating Council, Ltd. In addition to writing on health care-related topics, he held academic appointments at Columbia University's School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine and at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences of Long Island University. 

We send our heartfelt sympathies to his wife Sharon, son Kirk and daughter-in-law Kathy, daughter Nicole and son-in-law Albert, grandchildren Jack and Tessa, sister Bette and brother-in-law Bill, his extended family, and his many friends and colleagues.