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VOL. 31 NO. 22
MAY 26 - JUNE 1, 2022
Nursing goes beyond bedside at G.C. Hospital
Experts address mental toll of Covid on Long Island By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
For many on Long Island, it may seem as if the coronavirus crisis is finally nearing an end. But mental health experts and social service workers predict that the pandemic’s impact on mental health will continue to be felt for some time. According to research from the Kaiser Family Foundation, four in 10 Americans began suffering from anxiety or depression during the pandemic, up from one in 10 in 2019. Those conditions were manifested in a variety of ways. Over 30 percent of American adults reported struggling to sleep and eat, while another 12 percent reported increases in substance use, particularly alcohol and marijuana. Local social service workers such as Austin Hansen, from the Youth and Family Counseling Agency in Oyster Bay, say they have seen those trends continue. Hansen, who works with people from ages 10 to 70, said that many of his clients began using drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism during the pandemic. “I’ve definitely seen an increase in people using substances at this time to cope with the pandemic and to cope with that isolation and not having those CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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quo,” Dillman said. “Be innovative. Think outside the box. Don’t settle.” National Nurses Week, recWith her new role as a leader ognized May 6 to 12, has passed, at Glen Cove Hospital, she has but the work of nurses contin- applied her passion for patient ues to be the backbone of care to helping her nurses. “My health care. goal is to support T h e re s a D i l l our nurses within man, Glen Cove their full scope of Hospital’s chief practice,” Dillman nursing officer and said. associate executive Every day she director of patient aims to provide the care services, resources and tools became a registered to help her nursing nurse when she team in their eduwas 21. She said she cation, leadership received “instant development, and gratification” on ability to stay motithe job. vated and inspired. Once Dillman “For me, as the was of fered the nurse exec,” Dilloppor tunity for man said, “I leadership, howev- KERRI SCANLON empower and give er, she seized the my nurses the Executive director, chance, moving up autonomy to critithe ladder as a Northwell Hospital cally think [and] to nursing leader at question when hospitals such as something doesn’t North Shore University Hospi- feel appropriate.” tal and Lenox Hill Hospital over “It’s all about listening to our the course of the past 15 years. staff, and hearing what they Her advice and motivation for have to say, and doing things to her career success: not to settle. support them,” said Kerri Scan“For nurses, always have a lon, executive director at Northquest for lifelong learning, and well Hospital and a registered honestly challenge the status CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
By LETISHA DASS ldass@liherald.com
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AS PART OF ‘Glen Cove Salutes,’ Ralph Comitino, president of Public Works CSEA, left, and Lydia Wen, librarian at Glen Cove Public Library, hung banners of veterans across Morgan Park on May 3.
Remembering the community’s heroes By LETISHA DASS ldass@liherald.com
The City of Glen Cove is honoring its veterans on Memorial Day weekend with a display of banners imprinted with photos of them. The public library, the Veterans Affairs office and the Public Works Department installed 52 banners across Morgan Park on May 3 as part of an effort called “Glen Cove Salutes.” “It was a lot of work, but it was worth it, because these are the men and women of our military,” Ralph Comitino, president of the Glen Cove Public Works Civil Service Employees Association, said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
t’s all about listening to our staff, and hearing what they have to say, and doing things to support them.