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Friday, July 13, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 28
LIVING 50 PLUS
KROPLICK HOSTS HISTORIAN MEET
KAPLAN, PHILLIPS CLASH ON ABORTION
PAGES 31-42
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Town to judge updated plans from Northwell
W O M E N ’ S H E A LT H
Zoning board will examine proposed expansion for hospital in Manhasset BY LU K E TORRANCE Northwell Health officials will show updated plans to the Town of North Hempstead Zoning Board next week for a $342 million advanced surgical pavilion on the grounds of the North Shore University Hospital. The meeting is a follow-up to a presentation given to the zoning board last October. Associate Executive Director of Hospital Operations Derek Anderson said Northwell has used the ensuing eight months to elicit feedback and incorporate that feedback into their design of the proposed seven-floor structure. “We’ve already walked the Town [of North Hempstead] through the redesign, and now we’re going through the specifics with the [zoning] board,” he said. Northwell’s plan calls for space for 44 intensive care unit beds and 18 operating rooms for transplants, open
heart surgery, neurosurgery and complex orthopedic and spinal surgeries, among other procedures. There will also be two shell floors for future ICU beds. The goal of the expansion is to increase capacity, improve patient experience and provide new services to patients so they no longer have to travel to New York City for care. Anderson said in response to concerns expressed at previous meetings the health care system had rearranged the floors of the building. The mechanical floor was originally going to be on the fifth floor, but will now be on the top (seventh) floor, which allows it to be indented on the east and west sides. And since the mechanical floor has no hospital rooms, there will be less light shining from the top floor at night. “We do lose some efficiency, but it allows us to shift"the top occupied floor down almost 20 feet,” Anderson said. “So over time, as trees grow in and the buffer zone grows in, that top Continued on Page 60
PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, left, Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, center, and Hempstead Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana show support for the Reproductive Health Act at Kaplan’s state Senate campaign rally last Thursday. See story on page 6.
‘Elvis’ kicks off concerts at Mary Jane Davies BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
Green on Monday night, marking the first of concerts scheduled at that venue and only “The King of Rock n’ Roll” – the second show of the Town or, rather, an impersonator and of North Hempstead’s summer a tribute band just like him – concert series so far. Around 300 people visited rocked at the Mary Jane Davies
the park just across the street from Town Hall in Manhasset to watch Jimmy “King Kai”"Caiazzo and his band pay tribute to rock legend Elvis Presley. Continued on Page 59
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