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organizational leadership from Manhattan College.

Mason has had experience in facilities and environmental services at large health-care institutions, including The James Cancer Center at The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and Cri Research Campus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Prior to joining Broadview, Mason was the senior operations manager at Wexner Medical Center, a 1,000bed regional cancer research and treatment center where she managed a department of 300 employees. She also worked as operations manager at the University at North Carolina.

Mason earned a bachelor’s degree in human services/administration from Kaplan University in Des Moines, Iowa, and a master’s degree in public policy and management from The John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University. Broadview is being co-developed by Senior Care Development LLC and LCS Development LLC, and will be operated by Life Care Services®. LCS has over 50 years of senior living and housing experience and manages more than 140 senior living communities nationwide. LCS has been rated best in customer satisfaction with independent senior living communities 4 years in a row by J.D. Power.

Life Care Services is the nation’s second-largest operator of senior living communities and has expertise in the management of both life plan and rental communities.

Broadview is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in fall 2023. For more information, visit https://broadviewseniorliving.org/.

New York state Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado addressed state and local officials from across Westchester, advocates and the public during the celebration of the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Delgado was the keynote speaker at the event sponsored by Westchester Disabled on the Move Inc. (WDOMI) at Crawford Park in Rye Brook on July 26.

Delgado said that public service means representing all the people, not only those with special interests. He said the ADA is an example of legislation that ensures equal treatment under the law.

“The ADA has given people with disabili- ties the opportunity to live more independent and fulfilling lives,’’ said Delgado. “This law has made it possible for people with disabilities to make great strides and the work continues….”

Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins praised the work of Westchester Disabled on the Move for its advocacy and referred to a video shown during the program of people with disabilities crawling up the steps of the Capitol in March of 1990 to lobby for the ADA. She paid tribute to long-time advocate Judy Heumann, who recently died. Heumann, who had polio as a child, led the historic 26-day sit-in in 1977 that forced the government to pass 504, the first U.S. federal civil rights protection for people with disabilities.

“I am here because what happens to people with disabilities matters and we have come a long, long way,’’ said Stewart-Cousins.