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November 17, 2014 | VOL. 50, No. 46
Susan H. Boulhosa and Edmond J. Boran of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. Photo by John Golden
A Tuckahoe nonprofit takes semper fi to heart
Makes surviving children of Marines, law officers its mission BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com IN A COLUMBUS AVENUE OFFICE ACROSS FROM THE CRESTWOOD METRO-NORTH STATION, Edmond J. Boran was answering phone calls one recent afternoon. A retired FBI agent in New York
City and former head of security at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he had traveled from his Manhattan home to Tuckahoe to help raise public awareness of the foundation he serves as president. The caller was an official at the Federal Air Marshal Service reaching out on behalf of the Tuckahoe, page 6
BY DANIELLE BRODY
southern California-based company has turned a nearly 11-acre Irvington property into a residential eating disorder treatment center said to be the only one of its kind in the state. Monte Nido & Affiliates owns centers in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Manhattan specializing in treatment for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and exercise addiction. After receiving its license from the state Office of Mental Health in late October, Monte Nido Irvington this month welcomed its first four patients to a 23-room mansion at 100 S. Broadway. Carolyn Costin, the company’s founder who herself recovered from an eating disorder, opened the first center in 1996 in Malibu, Calif. Monte Nido translates as “mountain nest.” The new Irvington center admits female clients 18 and older in need of urgent and around-the-clock treatment. Patients live in the approximately 10,000-square-foot mansion, which can house up to 14 women at a time. Other eating disorder treatment centers and hospitals in New York offer partial hospitalization and outpatient programs, said Douglas Bunnell, a Monte Nido owner and the company’s national clinical development officer, who oversees the New York and Massachusetts programs and all staff training. No other facility in New York offers live-in, full-time care in a domestic setting, he said. “Really, between Boston and Philly there wasn’t a residential option for adolescents or young adults, so families were having to travel,” Bunnell said. Monte Nido opened its newest facility to fill that gap. Many patients at its West Coast facilities were from the East Coast and the company believed the Irvington facility would be a “desired resource,” he said. After almost a year of looking at housIrvington, page 2