04.01.2021 COVID-19 During COVID, another crisis continued: opioids Over the past year, as the COVID-19 pandemic claimed lives and sent thousands to hospitals and into ICUs, another epidemic was also raging. Opioids. While experts say the opioid...
11.25.2020 COVID-19 Thank you to our front line health care workers This month, our colleagues at northforker profiled five hospital and nursing home staff members working in all facets of their facilities who played a role in the fight against...
04.20.2020 COVID-19 Making a difference: Visiting nurse is fighting COVID-19 while living out of RV in Greenport In mid-March, as the COVID-19 infection rate began to grow, Roman Gnatenko received a phone call from an agency in the Midwest that places qualified nurses with hospitals that...
03.27.2020 COVID-19 A Greenport hospital faces down the COVID-19 monster Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport was the first to receive a COVID-19 patient on the East End and has been on the front lines for two...
02.21.2020 Health North Fork Surgical Center aims to provide ‘top-level care at an equitable price’ In a day when medical care is consolidating and smaller practices are being eaten up by larger groups, two doctors from Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital are bucking...
11.20.2019 Health Expanded behavioral health facility opens in Riverhead When David Cohen accepted a position with Quannacut Outpatient Services in the early 2000s, he joined a staff that had recently moved into a new, 5,000-square-foot Riverhead facility on...
