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Caregivers prioritize mental health pandemic. “I continue because I think it’s really important when Health care leaders at Long you’re dealing with being on Island Jewish Valley Stream stage constantly, and people hospital stressed that caregiv- look up to you,” Sanchez said. ers are often in need of care “They seek your advice, your themselves, encouraging more guidance, your mentorship, your leadership. open conversations You also have to be about mental really present with health for the proyourself and underfessionals who standing your reacspend their careers tions because, as a helping others. leader, you impact For nurses, phythe whole g roup sicians and other and the culture. The healthcare workbig thing is, taking ers, who are essencare of yourself tial players in their first before you take patients’ care, the care of others.” job often means DR. SALVATORE Healthcare prosupporting patients PARDO fessionals often and f a m i l i e s Chair of emergency enter the field t h ro u g h i l l n e s s, medicine, because they want trauma, grief and Long Island Jewish to help others, loss. While those Valley Stream which can lead experiences are them to overlook part of the profession, healthcare leaders agreed their own needs. Hospitals that the emotional impact on operate around the clock, care givers has not always requiring employees to work holidays and weekends and to received the same attention. Renee Sanchez, the hospi- tackle emergencies while regutal’s director of patient care larly caring for people during services, Magnet program and some of the most dif ficult nursing quality, began therapy moments of their lives. For Sanchez, prioritizing while serving as a nurse manager during the coronavirus Continued on page 16
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Giving veterans a helping hand Veterans and their families gathered at VFW Post 1790 in Valley Stream on Aug. 5 for a resource fair and food distribution event hosted by the post in partnership with Long Island Cares. Vietnam veteran Muray Kaplin, above, talked with Samantha Calandrino of the Long Island State Veterans Home. The event connected veterans across Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens with a variety of resources. Story, more photos, Page 10.
State lawmakers visit East Meadow jail By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com
State Democrats visited the Nassau County Correctional Center, in East Meadow, last Friday to inspect the conditions of cells being occupied by those arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. State Senators Julia Salazar and Siela Bynoe, Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, Assemblyman Noah Burroughs and Suffolk County Legislator Sam Gonzalez were among the officials who toured the jail. According to a release from Salazar’s office shared with the Herald, ICE detained 3,200 people in the correctional facility between February 2025 and March 2026. The majority of detainees
had no major criminal convictions or charges. Nassau County has actively cooperated with ICE since last February, when County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced that officers would collaborate with the federal agency in a “targeted” crackdown on undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds. The partnership included allocating 50 local jail cells for the federal agency to hold immigrants. Salazar and Solages visited the jail last July, and Salazar’s office told the Herald that “none of the people Nassau police has handed over to ICE are violent criminals.” And last year’s visit was a contentious one — the state officials were initially denied entry into the jail, and later permitted to enter. A state law allows elected officials to Continued on page 9
think mental health is kind of like a secret. It shouldn’t be a secret.