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BABYLON PUBLIC LIBRARY In the N e w s Wfc&T lsi ip S uperintendent R etires : Special recognition was given to West [slip Superintendent Dr Beth Virginia Blau during the Council of PTAs end-of-the-u'ar dinner held at the [^Grange Inn Dr Blau, who retired last month, was presented with the New York State PTA Distinguished Service Award for “outstanding contributions to the welfare o f children and youth.\ Pictured with Dr. Blau (seated) are PTA Council President Theicsa Shaw, and the newly-hired TH E SOUTH SHORE L.I'S LARGEST CIRCULATION WEEKLY NEWSPAPER S erving the community since 1966 P rinted on recycled paper W ebsite : www . babylonbeacon . com e - mail address : acjnews @ rcn . com ] VOL. 44 N0.27 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER Periodicals Postage Paid- Babylon Post Office, Babylon NY 11702 (USPS 03960-8000) _ C U C E Q l V r m i x r r v - £QP£'£0LH AN 'N01A8V9 .WE •COI .NORT] publisnea every Thursday by CJ P ublishers , I nc .' , 1999 65 Deer P ark Ave., Babylon, NY 11702 Founders Edward D Wolfe, Jane D. Wolfe Publishers, Carolyn a n d Alfred James Babylon reopens Old Town Hall and Museum... Page 3 The Babylon Beacon is the hometown newspaper o f Violet Harrison o f Babylon Village THURSDAY, July 8,2010 50 CENTS W B SD signs agreem ent w ith CSEA District bids farewell to business administrator Mark Flower and welcomes Arthur Williams by Carolyn James The West Babylon School District approved a memorandum of agreement with its paraprofessional unit at a recent school board meeting. The new two- year contract calls for an increase of 2 and 2.25 percent and affects approximately 190 employees in the district covered by the Civil Service Employees Association. Currently, the employees earn $12.82 an hour and go up to $13.90 an hour at step four. Employees receive no health care benefits. In other school news, the district announced the hiring of A rthur Williams, appointing him executive director for finance. He replaces Mark Flower, the district’s Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance, who is leaving the district this week. Williams will start June 28 and comes from Kings Park where he currently serves as Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Administrative Services. Prior to that he served in East Meadow. “West Babylon is an excellent school district with a wonderful tradition of educating children and I am pleased to become a part of that,” said Williams. Flower came to West Babylon three years ago from Port Washington schools. Prior to that he worked in private industry. When discussing his time in West Babylon, Flower described the community as caring, and the employees he worked with as committed to working hard for children. “Working here has been about what we can do to make the district better for the kids, control costs and do more for the community,” he said. “And that is important because we have changing demographics and these are tough times so we want to do more.” The new breakfast program and other programs that help families are things he is proud of, he said. As for disappointments, there is one. “There is a global sentiment about school districts that they are not concerned about the taxpayer and that is really a misconception,” he said. “The .fact is that people work very hard at controlling costs here in West Babylon.” Flower, a Sayville resident, has taken a position with the Port Jefferson School District. With Flower leaving the district, West Babylon officials chose to change the title of the position to Executive Director of Finance. Williams will earn $130,000 a year under that title, less than what Flower wUs making, saving the district some money, said Cacciola. Catholic Health Services wins 2010 HANYS Pinnacle Award Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip practices award-winning program by Lena Pennino Like football players huddled before a big game, the maternity and obstetric doctors, nurses and other hospital staff gather twice a day to discuss each patient in their care at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip. It’s .teamwork like this that earned Catholic Health Services - a network of medical care facilities on Long Island that includes Good Samaritan Hospital - the 2010 HANYS Pinnacle Award. Topping 130 other hospitals in the state, CHS garnered this award from the Healthcare Association of New York for quality and patient safety. This team approach to patient care in their maternity and obstetrics program is called Crew Resources Management (CRM). This program was used with great success in NASA and the aviation industry. In the 1950-60s, NASA investigators deemed that more than 50 percent of all airplane crashes involved errors in leadership, team coordination and decision making. Good Samaritan Hospital trained their staff in CRM in 2006 and implemented the program in 2007 to refocus the hospital staff in terms of communication, team structure, situation-monitoring, mutual support and team behavior. : ;• %. Now, the “huddles”—as the staff calls them —take place twice a day. Hospital workers gather together to talk about patients. Staff members explained that this leads to better relationships within the team and promotes an open dialogue to catch problem s before they happen. “We go over each patient to ask, ‘What’s going on With them,’” explained M ichele Solom ita, a clinical nurse specialist for labor, delivery, mother and baby at Good Samaritan Hospital. Since implementing the program, CHS has reduced Neonatal Intensive Care admissions by more than 60 percent at the four participating hospitals including Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center, St Catherine of Siena Medical Center and St. Charles Hospital. Staff a t Good Samaritan Hospital poses for a photo at the HANYS Pinncacle Award ceremony held recently that recognized the Catholic Health Services innovative obstetrics program, Crew Resources Management.
