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Benefit
Chairs Bill
Ford and Marigay
McKee, Terrence
McNally and Tom
Kirdahy,
Stony Brook
Southampton
Hospital’s
Chief
Administrative
Officer Robert
Chaloner, and
Southampton
Hospital
Foundation
President Steve
Bernstein welcomed
700
supporters
to Stony
Brook
Southampton
Hospital’s
59th Annual
Summer on
Saturday,
August 5th.
The night
raised more
than $1.5
million to
provide
support for
the Jenny &
John Paulson
Emergency
Department,
the sole
provider of
emergency
care on the
South Fork,
treating
more than
25,000
people
annually.
The festive
evening was
emceed by
Fox 5 Good
Day New York host Greg
Kelly and
brought out
supporters
including
Congresswoman Carolyn
Maloney,
U.S.
Secretary of
Commerce Wilbur
Ross and
wife Hilary Geary
Ross,
Southampton
Village
Mayor Michael
Irving and
wife Ellen
Irving, Somers and Jonathan Farkas, Margo and John
Catsimatidis, Julie
Ratner,
Douglas
Elliman Real
Estate
Chairman Howard
M. Lorber,
who is also
Chairman of
the Board of
Trustees of
the Stony
Brook
Southampton
Hospital
Foundation,
Stony Brook
Southampton
Hospital
Association
Chairman Kenneth
Wright,
and Stony
Brook
University
President Dr.
Samuel
Stanley.
The
evening’s
Honorary
Chair was Georgina
Bloomberg,
and former
event Chairs
in
attendance
included Jean
Fitzsimmons,
Jean
Shafiroff and
husband Martin
Shafiroff,
and Audrey
Gruss and
husband Martin Gruss.
After Mr.
Kelly
welcomed
guests, he
asked Mr.
Chaloner to
the stage,
who revealed
that after a
decade of
discussion,
Southampton
Hospital was
officially a
part of the
Stony Brook
Medicine
health care
system,
which allows
patients at
the hospital
access to
significant
resources
and advanced
technology.
The
collaboration
includes a
new cardiac
catheterization
laboratory,
part of The
Audrey and
Martin Gruss
Heart &
Stroke
Center and
the Phillips
Family
Cancer
Center,
which will
make
top-level
cancer care
more readily
available to
East End
residents.
Stony Brook
Southampton
Hospital is
recognized
by the NYS
Department
of Health as
a
provisional
Level III
adult trauma
center, the
first one on
Long
Island’s
East End.
This
designation
enables the
Hospital to
provide care
to the most
critically
injured
patients.
During the
summer
season when
the regional
population
swells, it
is even more
critically
important
that trauma
care be
accessible
close by.
Faster
treatment
for trauma
patients can
mean the
difference
between life
and death,
so support
for this
essential
service is
vital.
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