Dr. Lechich is an internist/geriatrician with long experience in the care of the frail elderly. Early in his career he served as the Senior Attending physician in the Chelsea Village Program for the homebound elderly and as the founding director of the General Internal Medicine Residency program at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village. Since 1993, He has been an ArchCare medical director at Terence Cardinal Cooke HCC, Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home and currently of the Special Needs Plans of ArchCare. He served as Co-Chair of a NY State Advisory Committee on Neurodegenerative diseases and oversaw the expansion of ArchCare’s late-stage Huntington’s Disease program to almost 100 individuals. He has been a workshop presenter for the American Medical Director’s Association on nursing home palliative care and has served as a mentor to students and attending physicians in his charge. He has passionately modeled the moral responsibility that practitioners must accept toward the achievement of a “good” death for those in their care. 

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