In the waning weeks of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln realized that sooner rather than later, the tens of thousands of Union soldiers returning from the battlefield would be forced to fend for themselves.
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4/21/22
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To Jyothis Joy, being a nurse is about more than tending to the illnesses and injuries of patients – instead, nursing is about “healing” human beings.
Joy, a medical and …
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By Robert Traverso
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2/10/22
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It all began one day in June of last year. An expectant mother had arrived at her nearest hospital—the Valley Stream Long Island Jewish Center—already in the painful throes of her …
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By Juan Lasso and Karina Kovac
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11/11/21
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How is my son, Jason, like a McDonald’s quarter-pounder?
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10/28/21
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The Valley Stream Long Island Jewish hospital didn’t always have the best reputation. Arlene Macchio, a reoccurring patient at the hospital, said her husband and sister nearly talked her out of …
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By Juan Lasso
and Karina Kovac
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10/14/21
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We have learned a lot about Covid-19 over the past 10 months. Importantly, we know now that it isn’t just a lung and respiratory issue, as was thought early on.
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By Jeffrey T. Kuvin
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1/7/21
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Dr. Corey Karlin-Zysman was associate medical director at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center, in New Hyde Park, when the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit New York in …
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By Peter Belfiore
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12/3/20
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The coronavirus pandemic has created a variety of hardships that have left families and children in distress. Social isolation. A mounting death toll. An estimated . . .
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By Sharon Skariah
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11/26/20
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Recently, a unique mobile rally and car parade commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the closure of Willowbrook Psychiatric Hospital on Staten Island. Opened in 1947, Willowbrook was, by today’s standards, a horrific institution . . .
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By Harvey Weisenberg
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10/1/20
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Catherine Naranjo, 24, a nurse at LIJ Valley Stream said she smiled with tears streaming down her face. On Saturday, her coworkers drove past her mother’s house in Garden City South to …
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By Nicole Alcindor
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5/13/20
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