After I was chairman of the Nassau Well being Care Corp. board, I beneficial in February 2020 downsizing Nassau College Medical Heart whereas sustaining an emergency division and behavioral well being companies, closing the A. Holly Patterson Prolonged Care Facility, promoting a portion of the property to retire debt and develop reasonably priced housing, and coming into affiliation agreements with neighboring well being techniques for specialty care. By way of attrition, important layoffs would have been prevented [“Make sweeping change at NUMC,” Editorial, Sept. 20].

There was no significant response till the governor moved to reorganize the dysfunctional board and dedicated monetary assist, accompanied by a deadline for a viable plan of motion.

New CEO Tom Stokes has hit the bottom working. No plan will likely be good, nor will everybody agree with each aspect of it with a number of constituencies concerned. However the plan should focus totally on the neighborhood that relies on these healthcare companies and the taxpayers who should assist them.

Sitting on the sidelines and taking potshots primarily based on misinformation, selective information, or political posturing will not be management. I do know many of those information firsthand, and they aren’t in step with the story being introduced by Nassau County’s management.

Issues this critical should not solved by marketing campaign guarantees. They’re solved by management, tough selections, skilled administration, and motion.

Robert Detor, Port Washington

The Republican Celebration’s absence from NUMC’s planning course of is not impartial inaction — it is a selection with penalties, and voters ought to perceive that [“GOP not part of NUMC planning,” News, Sept. 20].

Think about firefighters arriving at a burning constructing, studying who owns it and deciding to not go in as a result of they dislike the owner. We would not name that principled. We might name it dereliction of responsibility.

NUMC serves a few of Nassau’s most susceptible residents — no matter who presently sits on its board, or which social gathering constructed the establishment. Strolling away from the planning desk since you object to the folks already inside does not defend the general public; it abandons them.

Nassau County Govt and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman has stated he desires to control for all of New York State’s residents, not simply those that voted for him or will vote for him. However governing is not a slogan — it is demonstrated by the arduous, unglamorous work of displaying up, particularly when the room is uncomfortable. If that is what “governing for everybody” appears to be like like in apply — sitting out the planning for a public hospital quite than partaking with it — then the promise rings hole.

Management means strolling into the fireplace, not standing exterior debating who began it.

Ken Feifer, Massapequa

I used to be 6 years previous when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated — the identical age his daughter, Caroline, would flip 5 days later. I watched my dad and mom and the nation grieve, and at night time I lay awake fascinated about how painful it will need to have been for Caroline to lose her father.

That reminiscence is why the uncertainty surrounding the Kennedy Heart is so disturbing [“Kennedy Center must notify of demolition,” News, Sept. 18]. The middle will not be merely a constructing; it’s a residing memorial to President John F. Kennedy and an emblem of the nation’s cultural life. Discuss of demolishing it, together with President Donald Trump’s suggestion that it might be “ripped down,” deserves public outrage.

I wish to hear how Trump supporters justify the thought. Republican leaders ought to defend the establishments entrusted to the nation, no matter who occupies the White Home.

If a memorial as important because the Kennedy Heart will be handled as expendable, what nationwide landmark might be subsequent?

Teresa O’Halloran, East Islip

Since Workforce USA’s gold medal-winning FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup ultimate was given a short buried in the course of the sports activities part, let me fill in readers on how momentous this win was [“U.S. wins fifth straight World Cup,” Sports, In Brief, Sept. 14].

Workforce USA girls’s basketball is first within the FIBA rankings. The crew has received eight consecutive gold medals and, with this victory, 5 straight World Cup titles.

This event made historical past on the person degree, too. Jackie Younger grew to become the primary participant to win titles at each degree of aggressive basketball — highschool, NCAA, WNBA, Olympic, and FIBA World Cup.

There’s additionally a New York connection. Seven New York Liberty gamers competed in Berlin, representing six international locations. Workforce USA’s Breanna Stewart, the event’s most beneficial participant, is a New York State native.

Lauri Levenberg, Greenlawn