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Vol. 55 No. 20
MAY 14 - 20, 2020
MSSN officials:
Hospital’s safe for non-Covid patients By Mike SMolliNS
officials have launched a Don’t Put Your Health on Hold initiative in the hope to “return to normal.” With the coronavirus causing In addition to a deep cleaning of many South Shore residents to be the facilities where coronavirus afraid to visit hospitals to address patients were treated, the staff other medical issues, Mount Sinai has taken many precautions to South Nassau hosensure the hospital pital, in Oceanside, is safe for the pubhas launched a camlic. paign informing the Chief Medical community that it’s Officer Dr. Adhi safe to come to the Shar ma said it facility. Amid a 50 could be dangerous percent drop in for residents not to patients visiting the visit the hospital hospital’s emergenafter experiencing a cy department, phymedical episode. He sicians and adminsaid that if a person istrators are urging has chest pains that residents not to risk lead to a hear t their health out of attack, doctors are fear. usually able to open “We don’t want dr. AdHi SHArMA a heart vessel and people to put their Chief medical officer, treat the patient the health on hold in same day, increasMount Sinai South fear of Covid,” said ing the chances of a J o e C a l d e r o n e, Nassau hospital full recovery. If the MSSN’s senior vice person decides to president of corpostay home out of fear, the heart rate communications and devel- muscle could weaken, causing opment, “and we’ve taken the long-term health issues stemming steps needed to ensure their safe- from a blockage in the vessel. ty when they come here. Our Sharma added that it could lead overall message is simply that it to a person becoming unable to is safe to come here.” enjoy hobbies like walking or jogAs the number of coronavirus ging, or worse. patients has decreased, MSSN Continued on page 13 msmollins@liherald.com
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Courtesy Lori Brady
lori BrAdY, left, has been a nurse for nearly three decades, and her daughter, Carolyn, also works at Mount Sinai South Nassau. There are three mother-daughter nurses at the facility.
‘We’ll get through this together’
Mother-daughter nurses help battle coronavirus By Mike SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com
In 1972, Lori Brady’s father was shot and stabbed while on duty as an NYPD officer in the Bronx. Though she was only 8, she said that was the moment she decided she wanted to become a nurse. “I couldn’t visit my father in the hospital because I was too young,” she recalled. “I helped my mother care for my father and younger siblings after the attack, and
from that point on, I decided to become a nurse. I didn’t want anyone else to suffer.” After helping her mother, Kathleen, support her father, John, and her younger siblings, John Jr., who was 4 at the time, and Christine, who was 2 months old, Brady followed her dream and became a nurse. Years later, her daughter, Carolyn, answered the same calling, and they are now one of three mother-daughter tandems working against the
coronavirus at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in O c e a n s i d e. Te r e s a a n d Leanne Eberhart and Carolyn and Lauren Engel are the others. Lori Brady, 57, works at the Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, while Carolyn, 25, is undergoing orientation and will rejoin the Emergency Department in two weeks. Lori’s sister, Christine Scott, also works at MSSN, in the Education Continued on page 3
t can be very challenging for patients to feel safe, but we want them to know that we have taken every measure.