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There was no actual golf played — rain kept participants indoors at The Village Club of Sands Point. But more than 80 attendees of the second Swing into Service Invitational, sponsored by the Service Guild of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, helped raise more than $45,000. For more than 50 years, the Service Guild has worked to enhance the lives of patients, families and the community. In 2016, the Guild awarded more than $65,000 in grants to benefit Long Island Jewish Medical Center programs and services. The event's special honoree was Chantal Weinhold, Senior Vice President and Central Region Executive Director for Northwell Health. The Ellen Hermanson Foundation is awarding $260,000 in grants to The Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Southampton Hospital and Ellen's Well, a program that provides psychosocial support to breast cancer survivors throughout the East End. The grant to The Ellen Hermanson Breast Center will fund a state- of-the-art high resolution ultrasound machine to provide essential ultrasound diagnostic services. The grant to Ellen's Well will provide funding for more than 300¤breast cancer survivors to attend support groups and programs that focus on wellness, anxiety, stress reduction and mindfulness. The Ellen Hermanson Foundation serves the East End of Long Island, where breast cancer diagnosis and mortality rates are among the highest in New York State. Ellen's Run is the signature fundraising vehicle for the Foundation along with other events in the Hamptons. Northwell Health leadership and employees rededicated the lobby at Syosset Hospital, which includes hi-tech furniture and a new coffee shop, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Dec. 9, 2016. The newly renovat - ed lobby now includes furniture, which is not only functional, but has USB accessibility built in. Ample outlets will allow visitors and patients to charge their phones and other electronic devices. The cosmetic upgrade also includes a new coffee shop. The hospital's pre-existing gift shop was relocated and refurbished. There is also a six-cubicle, private consultation space where patients and families can meet with physicians. The private consulta - tion room leads into the new waiting room, which is more open and spacious for patients' families and friends. Patients and visitors will also notice a new front awning and covered handicap-accessible ramp, as well as new elevator cars that are faster and larger than their predecessors. The Dolan Family Health Center has received a mobile testing van that will be used to do free, confidential HIV test - ing in the Huntington and Greenlawn area. The van was purchased with fund - ing from Northwell Health's Ryan White Part C grant, which pays for both the van itself and two testing and counseling personnel who will staff the mobile unit. HIV testing performed by the van can provide results within a half hour. The van was dedicated on World AIDS Day. John T. Mather Memorial Hospital will become the first Long Island hospital to install a thermal (ice) storage system to help with cool - ing the hospital during warmer months. The new system, which is expected to be operational this summer, will shift a portion of the hospital's peak electrical load from daytime to nighttime when electricity is more plentiful, less expensive and generated more ef - ficiently, and will reduce consumption and peak demand. Ice storage technology, similar to the system being installed at Mather, is a form of energy storage where the consumption of a cus - tomer's electricity is shifted into the nighttime hours where energy is stored each night by using specialized air conditioning units to freeze large tanks of water into ice. During the day, the stored energy (in the form of ice) is then discharged (melted) in coordination with the traditional air conditioning systems to provide cooling without having to use large amounts of power when the grid is the most stressed. In addition to enabling the hospital to take advantage of lower nighttime rates, the system qualifies for new thermal storage rebates offered by PSEG Long Island under the Commercial Efficiency Program. PSEG Long Island preapproved a rebate of approximately $1 million to Mather to help fund the system's installation. Northwell Health has been named one of the nation's top nonprofit employers of military veterans by the organization Military Friendly. (L-R) Michael H. Goldberg, Executive Director of LIJ Medical Center; Leslie Lindenbaum, LIJ Associate Executive Director; Marilyn Obert- Thorn, President of LIJ Service Guild; and Chantal Weinhold, Northwell SVP and Central Region Executive Director. Northwell Health President and CEO Michael J. Dowling (far right) helps rededicate the Syosset Hospital lobby in a ribbon cutting ceremony. This mobile testing van will be used to do free, confidential HIV testing in the greater Huntington area. L O C A L N E W S 2 7 M D N E W S . C O M /// M D N E W S L O N G I S L A N D ■ 2 017

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