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Vol. 73 No. 27
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Care network is expanding Mount Sinai South Nassau to open new medical center in Wantagh Greenlawn, in Suffolk County. Dr. Adhi Sharma, president and CEO of Mount Sinai South Nearly a decade after Mount Nassau, said the facility will Sinai South Nassau purchased provide comprehensive and colproperty in Wantagh, a new laborative care, making it possible for patients to multi-specialty medreceive all the serical care facility is set to open this vices they need month, bringing under one roof expanded access to while enabling phyhealth services for s i c i a n s t o wo rk Long Islanders. closely together. The 63,000“This space is a square-foot, fourhealing space, a story facility, at 2020 welcoming space, a Wantagh Ave., will w a r m s p a c e fo r offer specialty serpatients to come, vices including oftentimes at a infusion, cardiology, point of despair in wo m e n’s h e a l t h , their care journey,” digestive health and Dr. Shar ma said or thopedics. T he during a preview building, a $70 miltour of the facility lion investment by on June 25. “So, Mount Sinai South hopefully, they’ ll Nassau — a nonfeel the love and profit teaching hosenergy that was put pital in Oceanside DR. ADHi SHARmA into this space by with regional facili- President and CEO, our architects and ties across Long Mount Sinai South designers.” Island — is expected The hospital’s to serve roughly board of directors 1,200 to 1,500 patients a day, purchased the property in 2016, according to hospital officials. intending to convert an office The medical director will be building into a state-of-the-art Dr. Sunil George, who served as medical facility. Mount Sinai associate medical director at ConTinuEd on PAgE 10 Mount Sinai’s location in
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Five graduating seniors from Seaford High School were honored with the annual Patriot Award for exemplifying service, character and commitment. This year’s award recipients are, from left, Jayne Singleton, Ava Caruso, Emily Richardson, Anastasia Perlegis and Skyler Secondino.
Honoring service, character, commitment at Seaford High By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
The Seaford 9/11 Memorial Committee recently honored five graduating seniors from Seaford High School with the Patriot Award for their service, character and commitment — values that reflect the legacy of alumni lost on Sept. 11. This year’s recipients — Valedictorian Anastasia Perlegis, Salutatorian Ava Caruso, Emily Richardson, Jayne Singleton and Skyler Secondino — were announced at the graduation ceremony on June 13. They were each presented with the award and a $2,000 stipend at the June 23 dinner at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. The nonprofit memorial committee was established in 2002 to honor the memory of the high school’s five alumni who died in
the attacks on the World Trade Center: brothers Thomas and Timothy Haskell, John Perry, Robert Sliwak and Michael Wittenstein. Perry was a New York City police officer; the Haskells were firefighters; and Sliwak and Wittenstein both worked for Cantor Fitzgerald at the World Trade Center. Memorial committee chair man Tom Condon, who started his teaching career at the high school in 1969, knew all five when they were students. He was a social studies teacher for Sliwak and Thomas Haskell, a guidance counselor for Perry, and knew Wittenstein through student activities. After the events of 9/11, Condon met with their families to figure out how best to honor their memory. “All five guys loved their experience at ConTinuEd on PAgE 20
his space is a healing space, a welcoming space, a warm space for patients to come, oftentimes at a point of despair in their care journey.