DOH: Island hospitals top cardiac-surgery charts
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for regional patients facing the unfortunate reality of cardiac surgery: Some of the best outcomes in New York State for certain types of open-heart…
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No. 282: Honest Abe’s Day Off, stepped-up Suffolk septic systems and a sunny future for cloudy beer
Congratulations, dear reader: You’ve successfully completed another workweek. Your reward: two glorious days without conference rooms or deadlines – or three, if yours is among the 34 percent of U.S….
Northwell taps MSK veteran to head cancer programs
By GREGORY ZELLER // After a three-decade career at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an internationally renowned surgeon will take the reins of Northwell Health’s vast network of cancer…
No. 281: Love, exciting and new; Faltischek, cautious but hopeful; and the most popular winter sport you’ve never heard of
It floats back to you: It’s the Love Boat, dear readers, or at least your beloved Innovate LI Newsletter, making another run on this Feb. 14, 2018. It’s Valentine’s Day,…
Debrief: Red flags, high hopes from Master Faltischek
When Innovate LI last debriefed Long Island Angel Network Chairman Michael Faltischek in May 2015, the LIAN already boasted a significant legacy: 600-plus financing applications reviewed, in excess of $5…
No. 280: A TCJA counterattack, an interstate healthcare alliance and baby, it’s cold outside (but it could be colder)
Weekend forecast: Welcome to the blessed end of another busy work week, dear readers – and speaking of endings and beginnings, happy anniversary to the National Weather Service, launched on…
Northwell, Connecticut health network buddy up
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Empire State’s busiest healthcare provider has established a new foothold in the Constitution State. New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health – New York’s biggest healthcare network…
No. 279: A new flu review, taking the fight to tuberculosis and why your fish might really like a cold beer
Welcome to Wednesday: And over the hump we go, dear readers, with another week of Long Island innovation and socioeconomic progress in full swing. It was 179 years ago today,…
No. 276: John Kominicki remembered and Island manufacturing re-imagined, with just two minutes left until the apocalypse
Happy Friday, everyone: And welcome to another well-earned weekend. Tribute To A Friend Friends and colleagues of Innovate Long Island founder John Kominicki are invited to a memorial remembrance on…
South Nassau, Mount Sinai make it (almost) official
By GREGORY ZELLER // South Nassau Communities Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System have officially tied the knot (if the state says OK). After a courtship that lasted the…
No. 275: On pipelines, solar farms, industrial parks and local innovators spreading around the world – without leaving LI
And you were there: Welcome, dear reader, to a fairly quirky Wednesday, chronologically speaking. Turns out Jan. 24 is less likely to fall on a Monday or Wednesday (56 times…
No. 269: Cuomo’s big plans, LI’s bouncing babies and other exciting ways to start your innovative 2018
Hello, you wonderful old Building & Loan! OK, yes, enough already with the Christmas references – but the very first U.S. building & loan association organized 87 years ago today…
Podcast personalizes opioid addiction, recovery
Things get real in this month’s edition of the Health Story podcast, which offers insights on the national opioid-addiction crisis. The latest installment of Northwell Health’s monthly series dives deep…
On a busy night for babies, it’s Aziya Dream by a nose
It’s a girl! The first Northwell Health baby of 2018 – also believed to be Long Island’s first baby of the New Year – arrived at 12:19 a.m. Jan. 1…
No. 268: The New Year (kinda) dawns, Darwin sails again, John Kanas won’t stop and the Islanders are riding the ponies (or vice versa)
Welcome to … wait, what day is it? It’s that haziest week of the year when long weekends, vacations and holiday parties have our bellies full and our minds slightly…