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TRiPlETS JESEE, JAMES and Jenee Sarisky walked their dogs in the Maurer Foundation’s inaugural Pink Ribbon Walk/Run, a virtual event to raise money for the organization.
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Capping a month of fundraising for breast cancer education
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Throughout October — Breast Cancer Awareness Month — Oceanside resident Susan Samaroo and her team at the Maurer Foundation have been working to fund their breast cancer education programs, which they said they believe save lives. Samaroo is the executive director of the Melville-based Maurer Foundation, which brings lessons about breast
cancer prevention to schools, colleges and offices yearround. The organization’s programs focus primarily on the importance of self-exams and how to conduct them properly on a regular basis. The program takes place each year in health classes at Oceanside, Long Beach and Ro c k v i l l e C e n t r e h i g h schools, as well as many other high schools across Long Island. “We know early detection is key to saving lives,” Sama-
roo said. “By instilling those good habits at a young age, it is our hope that down the road it can end up saving your life.” Typically, a Maurer Foundation representative visits a health classroom or office conference room and gives presentations. Students get hands-on learning with silicone breasts that allow students to feel what a lump in the breast might feel like. Maurer Foundation proContinued on page 3
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tors decided it was time to replace them. “We were able to keep up Oxygen was in high demand with the demand during Covid at the height of the coronavirus with our engineering staff,” pandemic this spring at Mount said Andrew Triolo, the hospiSinai South Nassau hospital, tal’s assistant vice president of and its oxygen system strug- design, development and congled to keep up. In struction and re-sponse, a new, property manage$100,000 system ment. “Now that was installed at everything’s been the hospital earliupgraded and we er this month, inhave that additioncreasing its oxyal capacity, we feel gen volume by 500 there will be no percent. problem to meet The hospital the demand that r e c e ive s l i q u i d we saw in March, oxygen in bulk, April and May.” and it is stored in Triolo said the a 6,000-gallon oxysystem was more gen far m on the JOE CAlDERONE than 20 years old, hospital’s south MSSN spokesman so the pipes, maniside. When folds and regulapatients need oxytors had to be gen, liquid oxygen travels changed, but the storage tank through evaporator tubes, remained untouched. The projwhich convert it to gas, and it ect took eight days to complete, then travels through a series of and while the oxygen system pipes and feeds underground to was offline, temporary trailers the hospital building, where it were brought in to send oxygen is delivered through a network to patients. The evaporator of copper pipes to patient units. pipes are four large bundles of Because of the high demand 15 to 20 pipes. For the new for oxygen at the peak of the pipes, engineers increased pandemic, the evaporator tubes were freezing, and administraContinued on page 3
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This was never foreseen. This kind of event was just not foreseen when they built this system.