Family Honors Longtime Hospital Volunteer on WMH Giving Tree

(Honesdale, Pa, January 18, 2023)….The Giving Tree at Wayne Memorial Hospital has a new leaf, a symbolic tribute to Stephen Kaminsky, who volunteered at the hospital and passed away in June of 2022. Kaminsky’s wife, Keta, purchased the leaf in Steve’s honor, “because of his love, respect and devotion to Wayne Memorial Hospital.”  Steve was a front-desk greeter, a member and president-elect of the hospital Auxiliary when he died, and perhaps most memorably: co-owner with Keta of pet-therapy dogs.  The Lakeville, Pennsylvania, couple spent hours with patients in the Inpatient Rehabilitation unit and the Infusion Clinic. Keta continues to carry on this mission of kindness. Before he retired, Steve, a U.S. Army veteran, was a police officer in New Jersey, where he helped organize a hostage squad and was a police instructor in the fields of explosives and hostage negotiations. According to his obituary, Steve was the first certified bomb technician in Middlesex County.  The Giving Tree honors or memorializes individuals through donations to the Wayne Memorial Health Foundation. For more information, visit wmh.org or email wmhf@wmh.org.

Photo, l. to r.: Steve’s nephews Bradley and Barry Rosenhouse, Keta Kaminsky, Jayne Kaminsky Rosenhouse, Jeffrey Rosenhouse.