DAYVILLE — Westview Health Care Center announced the appointment of Joseph J. Botta, M.D., as medical director to the facility as of Jan. 1.

Botta takes over the medical director reins with the retirement of Dr. Jeffrey Howe, Westview’s previous medical director for the past 13 years. 

Botta joined Westview’s medical staff in 2002 and established his current practice, Joseph J. Botta M.D. and Associates, LLC, now on South Main Street in Putnam, at the Westview facility in January 2009.

Botta is a Board Certified Geriatric Specialist whose professional memberships include: American Geriatrics Society, American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association. 

He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., and a Doctor of Allopathic Medicine Degree from Sackler School of Medicine, Ramar Aviv, Israel. His professional training includes a Fellowship of Geriatric Medicine, a Residency, and Chief Residency of Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. 

With this appointment, Botta will oversee Westview’s medical staff of physicians and work directly with the facility’s health care professionals to assure the highest standards of care that Westview continually strives to achieve. 

“We would like to thank Dr. Howe for his many years of dutiful service to Westview and wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement,” said David T. Panteleakos, administrator. “We are also very excited to welcome Dr. Botta as our new medical director here at Westview. His rich educational background, experience and professional interests including chronic disease, memory disorders and medication management will undoubtedly be an enormous benefit to our patients, residents and staff.”