St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, South Shore, opened its renovated Cardiac Care Center on Tuesday, February 15, 2005, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 43-bed patient unit provides 24-hour monitoring for patients who are having, or at risk for having, heart problems or are recovering from a cardiac event. Thirty beds are equipped with radio-frequency telemetry monitors that send signals to the central nursing station and are watched constantly by qualified staff for changes in patients’ conditions.

CAPTION 1: In the photo are (from left to right): Roy DeBeer, DO, President of the Medical /Dental/Podiatric Staff; The Rev. Dr. Joel Harvey, Vice President, Pastoral Care; The Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr., Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island and President and Chairman of Episcopal Health Services Inc. (EHS); Rabbi Zalmon Baida, Jewish Chaplain; Raymond Pastore, MD, Chief Medical Officer; The Rev. Hickman Alexandre, member of the Board of Managers, EHS; The Rt. Rev. Rodney Michel, Suffragan Bishop and First Vice President, EHS; Oluyemi Badero, MD, Chief, Cardiology; Luis A. Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer; and Sister Edna McKeever, Archivist, Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY.

CAPTION 2: Among those responsible for the planning and renovation of the Cardiac Care Center included (from left to right): Julie Mirkin, RN, Vice President, Patient Care Services; Rita Faulkner, interior designer of FSI; and Lawrence A. Dennis, Director of Facilities and Construction.

CAPTION 3: Members of the Hospital’s Community Advisory Board were in attendance for the ribbon-cutting. They were (from left to right): Anita Horan; F. Roy Meserole; Bella Grossman; Harvey Gordon; Marian Duncan; Edwin E. Olivero, Past President; Rev. Barbara Maxwell; Anthony Cascardi, Past Vice President; Sister Mary Thompson; Rachel Forde; William F. Green, 1st Vice President; and Susan Kimmel, Past President.