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SUMMARY:Geri Reichbach\, Brookhaven Medical Center.
DESCRIPTION:This morning we tapped into one of our many hospitals for information on what they saw as their role in their particular community. \nBrookhaven Hospital’s Colleen Valdini spoke at LIMBA and told us of specialties that have been developed at the hospital\, and also the depth of services in facilities that are not attached to the hospital. \nThe hospital is a 321 bed facility and employs computerized patient information systems. Each patient is issued a bar code. That bar code is read for properly identifying a patient when dispensing medication. This avoids overmedication as well as contraindications caused by concurrent medications.\n \nThe hospital has developed expertise in stroke care. There  that takes place when a stroke occurs is reversible if treated quickly. Rehabilitation of a stroke victim is greatly diminished after the first six weeks. They have learned that the rehab efforts must be intense during that period because the rehab results beyond six weeks is small.        \n Another area of expertise that has been developed at the hospital is the care of diabetes. Brookhaven has establishes several outreach units that serve  Coram and two other locations. It is not always convenient for patients to come to the hospital. We expect “state of the art” medicine in large\, well endowed colleges\, but we are pleasantly surprised when the care we need is available and local.\n \nThe hospital owns a hyper baric unit where they can exert pressurized 100% oxygen on wounds that are difficult to heal. The oxygen helps in the topical contact to the wound as well as the inhaled content of the pure oxygen in the blood while the patient is encased in the treatment unit. This unit is being used to help diabetics with wound problems. \n \nStill another expertise has been developed in obesities. Surgically remedied weight loss strategies have many important aspects to be considered. The doctors at Brookhaven have developed the knowledge base needed to perform these procedures with a safe successful record.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/geri-reichbach-brookhaven-medical-center/
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SUMMARY:Kings Park Discussion at LaQuinta
DESCRIPTION:This morning’s meeting was held at LaQuinta instead of our usual location.The meeting was sponsored by Joe Oliveri  and LaQuinta\, as well as Cliff Sondock from The Land Use institute and Mike O’Reilly of Trade winds Environmental Restoration.\nThe topic was; “What Should Be Developed at Kings Park Psychiatric Center.” Most of the hospitals and facilities buildings were abandoned years ago. The property was severely polluted during its service life and the responsibility for cleaning it up is the source of most of the rhetoric that pervades any discussion.\nThe format of having a panel discuss any problem opens up the opportunities of having a “food fight.” This particularly true when you have strong personalities on the panel such as;Jack Kulka\, Smithtown Supervisor Pat Vecchio\, Land Use Director Cliff Sondock and Carmine Martuscello from  Racanelli Construction. Then there were the local people who are emotionally involved in the issue. It was a spirited discussion to say the least. The good news is\, we all walked out of the room with the feeling that we agreed on at least one thing. That is;The property must be cleaned up\, and the state has the responsibility of doing it. It is the state’s responsibility because the pollution was put there on their watch.\nThe discussions about whether or not any construction should take place and what that development should consist of\, gave rise to some sharp exchanges. Despite that we were able to carry out a dialogue that gave us good information. Some of that information was new to me and new to a lot of other people too. For example the state has already set aside $25 million to be applied to the environmental clean-up. It was pointed out that the true cost estimate was over $50 million. Jack Kulka suggested that the money we have be applied to the first stage of the work at once\, instead of waiting for the rest of the money. Later we can petition for the rest.\n\nThe prospect of developing the land for commercial use\, or the building of homes for that\, matter did not resonate well with most of the crowd. \nWe also learned that there is a power plant on the property that was completely modernized in the 1990’s and never used. It is a gas fired unit\, and It has been “mothballed” and could be used if needed. \nIn any event the final use precludes total development\, except for about 92 acres. The rest of the almost 500 acres would remain park. Perhaps that’s the way it should be\, but that would only happen after a clean-up is completed. If this property ends up being a park then let’s make it a magnificent place where all of us can be proud of it.\nPictured: Carmine Martuscello (Racanelli Construction)\, Pat Vecchio (Town Supervisor)\, Jack Kulka (Kulka Construction)\, Clifford Sondock (Land Use Institute).
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/kings-park-discussion-at-laquinta/
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SUMMARY:Jim Banks Cutural Diversity Officer at Suffolk Community Col
DESCRIPTION:This morning’s meeting was a little unusual\, but I’ve said that in the past about other meetings. So maybe unusual is the norm for us. James Banks is the Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs of Suffolk County Community College. We had the pleasure of hearing Jim at this morning’s LIMBA meeting. Mr. Banks began by giving each of us a list of stereotypes and groups and asked us to match the stereotype with the group. Among the matchings were; policeman =donuts and Pakistanis= 7-11 franchisees. We all had the matches nearly the same. He then went on to tell us that a group of new arrivals to America would have not done “as well” as we did in the matching. Their preconceived notions would not have been developed yet. He then gave us a little exercise in non-verbal communications to demonstrate that messages are given and perceived even when nothing is being said. The purpose to these exercises are to demonstrate that we hold beliefs that are prejudicial. The word “prejudice” or pre judge really tells the story. By sensitizing ourselves to these pre-set traps we can avoid responding in a stereotypical way.Jim is a muscular looking man and is a former US Marine Sergeant. He belies his own masculine stereotype by engaging in non traditional activities for a man. His hobbies include\, sewing\, crocheting and quilting. He even organized an all male crocheting club. On the other hand he also enjoys pocket billiards\, basketball\, singing\, and poetry writing. Each of these activities summon up an image and conclusions that\, as they say in the song\,  “It Aint Necessarily So”Learning things about perception\, as we did this morning is fun\, even though at a deeper level we already knew them to be true.   It was a tough morning to get out on the road\, but for those of us who did\, it was worth it.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/jim-banks-cutural-diversity-officer-at-suffolk-community-col/
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SUMMARY:Round Table discussion
DESCRIPTION:This morning we conducted an “round Table” discussion. These meetings tend to have a tentative agenda\, that is\, we wind up talking about things other than what we thought we would discuss. No matter. There are so many issues that are important to Long Island\, we could start anywhere.\nTaxes and multiple layers of government\, and numerous school districts is where we began and that dominated most of the meeting.\nThe general consensus was that taxes are hampering our competitive edge and discouraging some people from moving here.\nHere are some of the observations on schools;\n\nWe have too many layers of management in our schools.\nTeachers use the example of the wealthiest districts to set the pay scales of teachers in less wealthy districts. In the next round of negotiations the process is repeated\, jack-sawing the pay scales ever upward. \nThere are far too many school districts\nPoliticians see the same problems as the rest of us\, but are fearful of being removed from office if they serve the people and not those vested interests\nWe spoke briefly about fire departments and how inefficient the resources are spent there. \nPaid fire departments in wealthy northern Virginia spend less per capita on fire safety services than their “volunteer”  counterparts on Long Island with no compromise in the service to the community. In fact the service is better because their is always a staff available.\n \nThese two issues are large burdens on the taxpayers and they can be addressed without compromising quality. Furthermore\, there are some districts that are poorly run and corruption is no stranger.  Regardless of the assets thrown at them they under perform. There is no agency big enough to audit all these entities. \n \nFinally we spoke about energy. Alternative energy was discussed and we agreed that government bodies could lead the way by putting high efficiency projects into their own buildings. Alternative energy generation has not been fostered in any significant way. (Exceptions are the towns of Brookhaven and Babylon have adopted “Energy Star” specifications in their residential building codes.)\n 
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/round-table-discussion-3/
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SUMMARY:Sharon Cates-Williams and Doug Miller
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 30th\, we had the distinct pleasure of hosting the CIO/Comissioner and Director of MIS\, respectively\, of Suffolk County.  The indefatigueable Sharon Cates-Williams\, and the engaging Doug Miller. Doug spoke about the work the county has done in the GIS field\, creating a very rich database of geolocated information and making it available to all the municipalities and first responders in the field.  The applications are manifold\, from helping tax assessors make accurate assessments\, ( groans from the audience… ) to helping first responders possess critical knowledge on residents with special needs.  Fire departments can now have maps of their districts with an overlay of the houses that contain folks with disabilities\, an extremely helpful feature.  Doug also detailed some of the automated tools that the police are using\, such as OCR camera that scans license plates as a cruiser drives\, checking those plates against the State’s databases for outstanding warrants and other issues\, and then notifying the officer that there’s something to be attended to around him.Ms. Cates-Williams came to speak about the Long Island Wi-Fi project\, which has been a focus of my attention since the county executive mentioned it in his state of the county speech in 2006.  Her vision for the project\, is an outdoor focused network with three tiers of service\, a free tier and two paid\, higher speed grades\, is one that enables mobile county workers to be more efficient\, and timelier in their responses to changing conditions\, with the ability to stay connected to data on the road.  Department of Social Services workers and Probation officers were just two of the departments where she illustrated the benefits of mobility. She detailed the steps involved in the county issuing the RFP\, first producing a lightweight RFI to gauge interest\,  and based on the healthy group of responses\, spurred the formation of the committee\, the addition of Nassau County to the project\, and the RFP’s issuance.  At the February 8th pre-proposal conference\, it was evident that the project had attracted many of the major players in the industry.  Sharon is expecting some good responses that address the issues of security\, privacy\, and a full coverage requirement.  Of course\, the LIMBA audience peppered her with questions\, on both the technology and business sides.  Ernie’s question in absentia was “How much will this cost?”\, and the answer is that it won’t cost the taxpayers anything because it is being built with private money and there will be a free tier of service.  A quick tutorial about the differences between WiMAX and Wi-Fi was gone through\, and discussions about mounting assets and real estate also ensued.It was a tremendous coup for our group to have Sharon and Doug come and speak about these vital initiatives to an engaged audience\,  where at LIMBA\, you learn something every time you go.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/sharon-cates-williams-and-doug-miller/
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