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VOL. 20 NO. 49 Week of,March 20, -.March 26,1986 20 cents per copy
Mid-Island Hospital Adds
Amtiulatory Care Unit
Robert J. Reed
Exec. Director
Mid-Island Hospital
Executive Director Robert
J. Reed, announced the
opening of the hospitafs
new Ambulatory Care Unit
today, and said the facility
will significantly expand the
hospital's capability to serve
area residents who need
simple surgical or diagnostic
procedures that do not
require overnight hospitali­zation.
Currently, about 25 per­cent
of the surgical proce­dures
performed at Mid-
Island Hospital are done on
such an outpatient basis.
"The benefits to patients
are considerable," Reed
explained. "By minimizing
the duration of the hospital
stay, patients reduce their
health-care costs and cut
down on time away from job
or family.
"Further, patients who
are treated in our on-premises
Ambulatory Care
Unit realize an additional
measure of comfort from the
knowledge that the hospi-taFs
full array of backup and
support services are availa­ble
to them, if needed."
Reed pointed out that
health care professionals
and facilities nationwide
have been moving increas­ingly
toward same-day
surgery and discharge. The
trend has been accelerated,
he added, by the develop­ment
of highly sophisticated
surgical techniques and
tools, including the carbon.
dioxide (C02) laser.
Mid-Island Hospital,
recently installed a C02
laser, which enables delicate
and precise surgery by sur­geons
using a highly
focused, pinpoint beam. The
laser minimizes post­surgical
bleeding and per­mits
faster and more com­fortable
recovery.
"These recent events
the opening of our Ambula­tory
Care Unit and'acquisi­tion
of the Sharplan C02
laser to complement our
YAG ophtalmic laser system
clearly place Mid~
Island Hospital on the cut­ting
edge of modern health
care, and position us well to
serve our patients' needs
into the next decade and
beyond," Reed stated.
Members of the commun­ity
who wish further infor­mation
on the Ambulatory
Care Unit may call 520-2471
from 6 a.m. through 8 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Karin Weisenberger, R.N,,
has been named administra­tive
supervisor for the new
unit.
Mid-Island Hospital has
served residents of Eastern
Nassau/Western Suffolk
Counties for more than
three decades. Communities
served by the 237-bed facil­ity
include Farmingdale,
Bethpage, Massapequa,
Levittown and surrounding
areas.
Pool Park Fees
The Oyster Bay Town
Board has approved a fee
schedule for membership at
the four community park
pools, located in the Beth-page,
Marjorie R. Post,
Plainview-Old Bethpage
and Syosset-Woodbury
Community Parks. A pool
membership entitles the
holder to not only use the
poo! but all other facilities in
the park and take part in the
many summer programs
offered by the Town.
The pool season will begin
on Saturday, June 14,
except at Bethpage Com-munhy
Park Pool which will
open on Friday, July 4. The
season at all pools will end
on Monday, September 1
(Labor Day). Registration
will begin on Saturday, May
Bethpage High School Hosts German Students
Eighteen students and a teacher from the Realschule
Kreuzaii in West Germany will attend Bethpage Senior High
School under the auspices of the Fulbright-Hayes Student
Exchange Program. In school, the host group is the student
members of the German Club under the advisorship of Mr.
Roy Wolff, a teacher in the Foreign Languages Department.
The exchange students will remain in the Bethpage com­munity
from March 12th to April 1st. They will attend
school on a regular class schedule, including participation in
academic subject classes, physical education, and extracur­ricular
activities. Mr. Wolff has planned and will supervise a
series of tours to the Old Bethpage Restoration, the United
Nations, South Street Seaport, Empire State Building and
the environs of Manhattan and Washington, D.C. The
members of the German Club will host the exchange stu­dents
at a post-school pizza party.
The exchange program represents a united effort of the
school, the students in the German Club, and the host stu­dents
and parents of the Bethpage comrhunity who provide
the lodging for the German students. Mr. Wolff stated that
the eager cooperation and support of the host families espe­cially
contribute to the success of the program and the
learning experiences both of the German and Bethpage
students.
The participants in the
gram are:
GERMAN STUDENT
Petra Menzel
Britta Schall
Andreas Soffner
Simone Bungeler
Uschi Schmitz
Judith Eiche
Uwe Jannssen
Kirstin Mons
Peter Schotten
Astrid Valder
Susanne Baumgarten
Arthur Wittwer
Petra Weidenhaupt
Ursula Rey
Alexandra Kelling
Jan Kallscheuer
Marc Schweitzer
Monika Haupt
Walter Melchers (teacher)
Fulbright-Hayes Exchange Pro-
BETHPAGE HOST
Linda Anselmo
Donna Bennett
Stephen Boltja
Kim Bomba
Jennifer Burk
Tami Auer
Michael Croan
Jean Marie DiNome
James Froehlich
Tina Eriksen
Laura C?;oan
EricGulkis
Julie Hensler
Charlene Jackson
Mary McCaffery
Krissy Satre
Tom Winkler
Lisa Zullo
Roy Wolff (teacher)
Oyster Bay Town Receiver of Taxes Gary F. Mudello (fifth from rif^t) presents a Freedom of the Town Certificate
to Walter Melchdks and a group of students from Krenzau, West Germany, who are participating in an exchange pro­gram
with Bethpage Hi^h School. Musiello was on hand to greet the visitors on their first full day in Bethpage and
present them with honary citizenship for the duration of their stay.
Home Prison For DWI Rejected By L I . MADD
Allowing convicted DWI
(Driving While Intoxicated)!
drivers to serve their prison
sentences at home, under
24. Bethpage Community
Park District residents will
be accepted at the three
other community park pools
until the Bethpage pool is
open.
ALL PARK QISTRICT
RESIDENT FEES: Family
rn embers h i p . . . $125.00,
Individual membership
...$90.00, Senior citizen
couple...$65.00; Senior citi--
zen individual,..$45.00.
ALL COMMUNITY
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electronic surveillance
rather than in a regular pri­son,
would be a serious misr
take, according to Deborah
Davidson, President of L.I.
MADD. In her letter to
Nassau County Executive
Francis T. Purcell dwho
recommended "home pri­sons"
for DWIs, she stated
that five years of hard work
to establish a deterrent to
drivers who drink alcoholic
beverages would be des­troyed,
as well as a weaker
STOP-DWl program.
Davidson: "Five years
ago, drunk driving was... a
socially acceptable crime,
with sentences light, meted
out by judges in a context of
'there but for the grace of
God go any of us.' Now, the
justice, system says,
'...caught driving drunk,
they would be punished,
including a jail sentence'. By
taking away the threat, you
are undermining all of the
work we have done. Drunk
driving leaves violent death,
disfigurement... in its wake.
Home prison is totally unac­ceptable
as a punishment for
DWI."
Others opposing Purcell's
plan include Nassau District
Attorney Denis E, Dillon,
who stated that the only
solution to overcrowded
jails, was to build more jails.
Suggestions have been made
to use the Brentwood Cor­rectional
Institution in Suf­folk
County for siffidus pri"
soners, ideally for non­violent
ones. Opposed also
was Long Beach Supervisor
Bruce NJrman, a member of
the Nassau County Board of
Supervisors, who stated,
"We've spent five years con-vicing
people that, if they
drove drunk, they would go
to jail. It has been a great
deterrent..., and this (home
prison) is a retreat."
Purcell's comment that
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