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Friday, October 8, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 41
GUIDE TO MINEOLA STREET FAIR
JACOBS ENDORSES HOCHUL
COUNTY LEGISLATURE OK OKss FEE CUTS, $375 GRANTS
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Northwell axes 1,400 unvaxxed
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NewYork’s largest health employer complies with mandates BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider, has fired 1,400 employees who did not receive their coronavirus vaccinations as required by state guidelines. In a statement to Blank Slate Media, the organization said it regrets terminating employees under the circumstances but cited the importance of keeping its patients and staff members safe. “Northwell regrets losing any employee under such circumstances, but as health care professionals and members of the largest health care provider in the state, we understand our unique responsibility to protect the health of our patients and each other,” the statement said. “We owe it to our staff, our patients and the communities we serve to be 100 percent vaccinated against COVID-19.” Employees at nursing homes and hospitals were required to receive at least their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine by midnight on Monday, according to an Aug.
16 order by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Employees at hospices, home care centers and adult care facilities are required to get at least their first dose by Oct. 7. The health care entity thanked the employees that did receive their vaccination and said the staff is now fully inoculated. “Northwell has taken a rapid, aggressive approach to move successfully toward full vaccination compliance while maintaining continuity of care and ensuring that our high standard of patient safety is not compromised in any way,” the statement read. “We thank the vast majority of our employees who did the right thing and got vaccinated.” Northwell declined to comment on how many employees from each hospital were terminated and where the terminated employees reside. Northwell operates Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park and North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset among other hospitals on Long Continued on Page 42
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET SCHOOL DISTRICT
Every Friday, Shelter Rock sixth-graders write down their “Weekly Wins” on Post-it notes.
Ex-G.N surgeon gets five years probation BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Former plastic surgeon and Great Neck resident Matthew Bonanno was sentenced to five years of probation in
Nassau County last Friday after two county police departments seized a cache of guns, ammunition and other weapons from him in 2019, officials said. Bonanno, 49, pleaded guilty to possessing a 9 mm pis-
tol in July while Nassau County prosecutors dropped additional charges, including 11 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and two charges of crimiContinued on Page 43
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