Oceanside/Island Park
HERALD Golf outing for MSSN staff
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A salute to local heroes
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Vol. 55 No. 32
AUGUST 6 - 12, 2020
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MSSN lets visitors back into E.R. began permitting one visitor per patient each day for four hours, but did not allow visitors in cerAs of last Friday, only two of tain areas, including the emerthe more than 300 patients at gency room. Mount Sinai South Nassau hosRecently, the hospital began pital had Covid-19, letting visitors in a f ar cry from the emergency when nearly 400 room. They can patients were diagstay with patients nosed with it in until a staff memApril. With a reber informs them turn to more norwhat course of mal services, action is being administrators taken, and then have slowly been they are asked to per mitting more leave or told they visitors into the can stay. On July hospital, as long as 30, Sharma said, they practice recabout 64 visitors ommended protocame to the emercols, such as weargency room. ing a mask and Because New social distancing. York was the hard“For the most est-hit state in the part, we are trying U.S. in the early to increase visita- Dr. ADhi ShArMA stages of the corotion and maintain navirus pandemic, safety at the same chief medical officer, Shar man said, time,” MSSN Chief MSSN many people Medical Officer Dr. learned to adapt to Adhi Sharma said. wearing a mask and social dis“We’re trying to find that bal- tancing, which, he added, has ance.” helped prevent a second surge so At the height of the pandem- far. He noted, however, that there ic, no visitors were permitted at have been some instances of resthe hospital. In June, as coronavirus cases declined, the facility Continued on page 3
By Mike SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com
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Courtesy The Dermatology Specialists
Welcome to the neighborhood The Dermatology Specialists recently opened in the Sands Shopping Center in Oceanside. Above, from left, Joseph Kim, Jhanna Villano, Dr. Jessica Newburger, Martha Chavarria and Sai Sika Singh at the grand opening.
Real estate market heats up in Oceanside, Island Park By BriANA BoNfiGlio bbonfiglio@liherald.com
Low inventory, rising prices and desperate buyers — that’s what Cory Knopf, owner of Hal Knopf Realty in Oceanside, and other real estate agents have been seeing this summer. With interest rates dipping below 3 percent in some cases, homebuyers have been eager to close deals on houses recently. “How quickly something sells is
unparalleled,” Knopf said. “I’ve never seen such a demand for homes in my 26 years in real estate.” This often results in multiple offers on a single property and bidding wars, she added. “Whether it’s a $300,000 or a million-dollar home, if it’s priced properly, there will be multiple offers,” she said. Aside from borrowing power for mortgages, the buying frenzy is being driven by a couple of
other factors too, Knopf said. First, while there are more buyers, there is a decrease in inventory — fewer homes on the market. Owing to coronavirus concerns, people may be waiting until they feel more comfortable to show their home to buyers. Eventually, Knopf noted, inventory will increase again and help prices to stabilize — and bidding wars will slow Continued on page 3
t’s not time to give up. It’s time to keep fighting the good fight. The mask is a minor inconvenience compared to being on a ventilator.