Thursday’s actions by the New York State Department of Health represent a giant step toward the successful sale of Summit Park. Now that Sympaticare’s licenses have been approved for both the hospital and the nursing care center, the Rockland County Health Facilities Corporation (the LDC) is free to move forward with the Purchase and Sale […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day In 1854, Dr. John Snow tracked down the cause of deadly cholera outbreaks in London to contaminated water and convinced local officials to remove the handle from a well’s water pump to end the threat. Fifty years later, an intrepid New York City Health Department epidemiologist named George Soper […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Rockland County’s Office of Fire and Emergency Services this week took part in a scheduled exercise to test response plans developed to protect the public in the event of an emergency at Indian Point. The state-evaluated drill involved a fictitious radioactive emergency at the nuke plant and assessed the […]
Hospital audit marred by delayed payments BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – An upcoming fiscal report on the Summit Park Hospital could be delayed due to disagreements between the firm handling the audit, and an increasingly frustrated County Legislature. KPMG, the firm auditing the hospital’s finances in preparation for its upcoming privatization, notified the county […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Beneath the blazing summer sun, police officers and volunteer firefighters from across Rockland County converged on Orangetown last week in response to an “accident” on the CSX rail line near Highview Avenue. This “accident” was part of a full-scale exercise to evaluate coordination, capabilities and response during a freight […]
Hoehmann, Borelli blame Gromack BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – Clarkstown Republican leaders are not happy with Standard and Poor’s recent decision to downgrade the town’s credit rating and are pinning the blame on Supervisor Alexander Gromack, accusing him of years of fiscal mismanagement. Town Councilman George Hoehmann, who announced his candidacy for town supervisor […]