STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Booster
Hospital honored for cardiac care
SUNSET PARK
Three cheers for NYU Langone
Hospital!
The American Heart Association
honored the Sunset Park medical
center for delivering outstanding
cardiac care on June 25!
The hospital — located at 150 55th
St. near Second Avenue — nabbed
the prestigious and wordy Mission:
Lifeline Silver Plus Receiving
Center Quality Achievement
Award, which the heart association
bestows to medical institutions
that go above and beyond the call in
treating patients who suffer severe
heart attacks.
“We commend NYU Langone
Hospital–Brooklyn for this award
in recognition for following evidence
based guidelines for timely
heart attack treatment,” said Tim
Henry, chair of the Mission: Lifeline
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Subcommittee. “We applaud the
significant institutional commitment
to their critical role in the
system of care for quickly and appropriately
treating heart attack
patients.”
According to the hospital, more
than 250,000 people nationally suffer
the most serious form of heart
attack — known as an ST elevation
myocardial infarction — that requires
special and rapid treatment
to avoid fatality.
The Mission: Lifeline program
was established to provide resources
and training to medical
facilities in an effort to support
care and prevention of those severe
heart attacks.
NYU Langone’s chief cardiologist
accepted the recognition,
giving praise to the hospital’s
dedicated staff.
“It takes a highly trained and
cohesive team to provide optimal
care for heart attack patients,” said
George Fernaine. “We are pleased
that our hard work in delivering
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life-saving care — and achieving
high-quality, measurable results
— has been through Mission: Lifeline.”
Standing O salutes NYU Langone
Hospital–Brooklyn on the honor!
— Aidan Graham
PARK SLOPE
A band of Park Slope civic gurus
awarded four high schoolers
with $2,500 toward their college tuition
for outstanding community
service.
The Park Slope Civic Council
handed plaques to four high school
honorees — Dilica Arzu Martinez,
Sarahi Flores Castillo,
HongDa Ou, and Ashley Vergara
— during an award ceremony
at the historic Old Stone House in
Washington Park on June 6, and it
didn’t take long before the water
works set in, according to one Civic
Council member
“Not a dry eye in the house,”
said Joe Rydell, chair of the civic
group’s Scholarship Committee.
In addition to the awards presentation,
the ceremony featured
glowing speeches by the students’
college counselors, who nominated
each of the students for the award.
The four awardees attended high
schools in the John Jay Education
Complex in Park Slope, where they
volunteered extensively through
extra curricular activities.
The students also gave back to
the Park Slope community by volunteering
with church groups and
providing after-school child care,
according to their college counselors.
The honorees, who hail from
different public schools, will take
their talents to universities across
the east coast this coming fall.
Martinez will head to La Salle
University in Philadelphia, Castillo
will attend the College of
Staten Island, Ou will start at the
New York City College of Technology,
and Vergara will attend
New York University.
The Park Slope Civic Council
has awarded community service
scholarships to high schoolers
since the early 1960s, when it began
giving $100 scholarships — worth
about $865 today — to one high
schooler every year.
Since the beginning of the
group’s annual food and drink-tasting
event, “Food for Thought,”
the civic group has been able to increase
its prize and extend it to four
recipients.
This year’s “Food for Thought”
event will be held on Wednesday,
Oct. 23, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
at Prospect Park’s Picnic House.
— Rose Adams
BOROUGH WIDE
Three cheers to upstate grocery
empire Wegmans for giving
out $500 scholarships to six
students at two Kings County
colleges on June 24.
The company awarded the
grants to four scholars at the
Navy Yard’s Brooklyn Steam
Center high school program
and two at New York City College
of Technology in America’s
Downtown.
The one-time grant was inspired
by the fi rm’s annual
scholarship for their employees
who exemplify the company’s
values, including caring, respect,
high standards, empowerment,
and making a difference,
and the company aims to boost
the promising youngsters, according
to the head of the soonto
open Kings County store.
“Committed to helping young
people succeed, the employee
scholarship program is a longstanding
tradition that we’re especially
proud of at Wegmans,”
said Kevin Cuff, the manager
of the store that will open in the
Navy Yard this fall, who himself
is a former winner of the employee
grant.
The company has awarded
the grants to 1,755 of their employees
this year and Cuff said
they are excited to welcome the
Brooklyn staff to their team at
their opening on Oct.27 inside
the Admirals Row Development
on Flushing Avenue.
“With just a few months until
our Brooklyn store grand opening,
we’re excited to award honorary
scholarships this year,
and look forward to celebrating a
new class of Wegmans employee
scholarship recipients from our
store in 2020,”
— Kevin Duggan
SERVICE STARS: High schoolers (left to right) Dilcia Arzu Martinez, Sarahi Flores
Castillo, HongDa Ou and Ashley Vergara were recognized for their extraordinary community
service contributions, both in and out of school. Park Slope Civic Council
High schoolers receive scholarships
for outstanding community service
AWARDED: NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn
was honored on June 25 for providing patients
with exemplary cardiac care. René Perez
EXEMPLARY: Upstate grocer Wegmans
awarded six $500 grants to
students at two Brooklyn colleges, inspired
by their employee scholarship
program. Adam Donohue