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Volunteers fill seniors’ shopping lists ting herself at risk. “It’s perfect,” she said. “It’s a wonderful program. When I saw The last time former State it, I thought ‘I’m a senior.’” MarSen. Carl Marcellino and his cellino, a former Adelphi Univerwife, Patricia, shopped for gro- sity professor, has known Lafaceries at Trader Joe’s in Plan- zan for some time. When he was view, they had a few on the Syosset Board items on their list, of Education, she including the ingreinvited him to speak dients they would t o h e r g r a d u at e need for home-made class. chicken soup. Lafazan’s office As they browsed implemented the the store, where only shopping program, 10 shoppers at a time which pairs a volunwere permitted to teer shopper with a prevent the spread senior or an individof the coronavirus, ual with an underlythey picked up celing medical condiery, onions, carrots tion, last month. The and other ingredimoney for the groents. But they forgot ceries is reimbursed the most important JOSH LAFAZAN to the volunteers by item for the soup — check or cash Legislator, 18th the chicken. secured in an enveSo Patricia was District lope at the door or in happy, she said, the mailbox when when she received an email from groceries are dropped off. Nassau County Legislator Josh“I was thinking about how my ua Lafazan, an independent who grandparents would be able to represents District 18, about his get not only food, but medicavolunteer senior shopping pro- tion,” Lafazan, 26, said. “And I gram. The program, which cov- thought if my grandparents ers Brookville, Locust Valley, were in a precarious situation, Oyster Bay, Glen Head and Bay- then there has to be thousands ville, enabled Patricia to get the chicken she needed without putCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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GLEN COVE HOSPITAL Emergency Room nurses Diane Perez, far left, Cristina Gomez and Amanda Sicuranza discussed the care of a Covid-19 patient.
For G.C. Hospital E.R. doctor, the work seems endless By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Dr. John Colletta said that his Centerport neighbors consider him something akin to a leper. They know he works in the emergency room at Glen Cove Hospital, and that his daughter, Morgan, is an emergency-room nurse at North Shore University Hospital in
Manhasset. “No one will come near me or my house,” Colletta, 61, said. “My son won’t even come home. He went to stay with his girlfriend’s family. Between me and my daughter, we’re in the heat of the coronavirus.” Colletta can still recall his first shift in Glen Cove Hospital’s emergency room — Dec.
12, 1985. Nearly 35 years later, he is the chair of Emergency Medicine at the hospital. On the front lines of the pandemic, he works around the clock to manage the emergency room, where almost all of the patients have Covid-19. “Where are all the stroke, the appendix patients?” he asked. “I don’t see them. I CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
was thinking about how my grandparents would be able to get not only food, but medication.