11.17.2020 COVID-19 For two local hospital CEOs, what is ahead for COVID-19 is worrisome While neither hospital executive can predict what is coming in the next few weeks as COVID-19 cases rise, both Andy Mitchell at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead and...
04.01.2020 COVID-19 At Stony Brook ELIH, conditions can change minute to minute On March 8, when Suffolk County’s first coronavirus case was confirmed, Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital chief administrator officer Paul Connor made sure his hospital’s emergency management plan...
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...
07.02.2019 Health Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital begins new chapter Four years in the making, the affiliation between Eastern Long Island Hospital and Stony Brook Medicine is now official. The Greenport hospital will now be known as Stony Brook...
05.05.2019 Health Eastern Long Island Hospital closes in on final steps of partnership with Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital’s affiliation with Stony Brook University Hospital is expected to be finalized July 1, nearly four years after the merger between the two healthcare systems was...
02.26.2018 Community Fast chat with Cutchogue grand marshal Paul Connor The 14th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will kick off Saturday, March 10, at 2 p.m. hosted by the North Fork Chamber of Commerce. This year, Paul Connor, CEO...
08.23.2017 Health Paul Connor named LeadingAge New York Trustee of the Year Paul Connor, vice chairman of Peconic Landing’s board of trustees, was recently honored with the 2017 Trustee of the Year Award from LeadingAge New York, a not-for-profit advocacy group...
05.05.2017 Health East End healthcare pros give mixed opinions on American Health Care Act In the wake of Congress narrowly approving the American Health Care Act Thursday — replacing the Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare” — local reaction from insurance and healthcare...
04.19.2017 Health Report: ELIH only hospital in Suffolk to earn an ‘A’ in patient safety Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport earned the highest grade in Suffolk County for patient safety, according to a recently released report from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit...
11.28.2016 Health Uncertain future for local health care pros in new year President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a platform that included a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare,” raising questions about how health insurance could change...
