Corey Lewis of Floral Park, N.Y. earns Gaylord Hospital award at Quinnipiac University

HAMDEN, CT (05/29/2013)(readMedia)-- Corey M. Lewis, of Floral Park, N.Y., received the Carissa M. Neubig Award on May 11, at the Graduate Awards Ceremony at Quinnipiac University.

Gaylord Hospital presents this award to a graduating physical therapy student in honor of Neubig, a Quinnipiac alumna and long-time employee of Gaylord Hospital, where she served as chief operating officer. This award recognizes a student who exemplifies Gaylord Hospital's five values: integrity, compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Gaylord is a premier long-term acute and chronic care hospital located in Wallingford. It provides a continuum of care including inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation, medically complex care and sleep medicine. Its programs include spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, ventilator weaning, respiratory management, transitional living, neurological rehabilitation and hand therapy, among others.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,200 full-time undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges issue. The 2013 issue of U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the Northern Region. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's "The Best 377 Colleges." For more information, please visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.