Kings Harbor’s medical director promoted to clinical professor
Roy J. Goldberg was promoted to clinical professor at Kings Harbor Multicare Center.
Photo courtesy of Kings Harbor Multicare Center
Kings Harbor Multicare Center announces
that its medical director, Roy J.
Goldberg MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD has been
promoted to clinical professor of Medicine
in the Division of Geriatrics at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine/Montefi ore
Medical Center. This prestigious honor
makes him the only post-acute/long-term
care medical director affi liated with Montefi
ore and Einstein to have this distinction.
Dr. Goldberg’s devotion to medical education
has been notable for many years of
teaching. Einstein medical students, Montefi
ore’s Geriatric fellows, And Family Medicine
residents all rotate through Kings Harbor
under his guidance.
Dr. Goldberg has published extensively
in the Geriatrics and Long-Term Care literature,
and has completed a chapter for
an upcoming textbook. He has lectured at
numerous conferences on topics related to
geriatrics and long-term care.
New York City Health and Hospital
Corporation/North Bronx Health Network
named Dr. Goldberg ‘Community Provider
of the Year’ in 2012, and he was the recipient
of the Bronx County Medical Society’s
‘Peer to Peer Excellence in Medicine
Recognition Award.’ Since its inception in
1994, Dr. Goldberg has been named one of
the ‘Top Doctors’ in Geriatrics in the New
York metropolitan area by the Castle-Connolly
Guide, and he has received that distinction
twice by New York Magazine.
Kings Harbor is a 720 bed Post-Acute
and Long-Term Care facility in the Pelham
Gardens area. Dr. Goldberg is the full time
medical director at Kings Harbor, board
certifi ed in Geriatrics, and has a certifi cate
in Medical Direction from the American
Medical Director’s Association. For further
information about Kings Harbor or a tour of
the facility, call (718) 405-3560.
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, A 60 UGUST 2-8, 2019 BTR
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Stop by picturesque City Island and
enjoy the exciting programs offered at the
PSS City Island Center, which is located
at 116 City Island Avenue, Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Experience the
exercise classes from gentle Yoga Stretch,
Balance Class, Arthritis Workshop and Tai
Chi as well as the vigorous Fit For Life and
Cardio Fit. They also offer acrylic painting,
health presentations, blood pressure monitoring,
gardening exchange, singing group
and parties. Lunch is served from noon to
1 p.m. suggested donation is $2. The center
participants go on shopping trips every
day; i.e. Shop Rite, Dollar Tree, Target,
Kmart, as well as theatre excursions, special
trips, special luncheons and more. It’s
free to become a member, but you must be
60 years of age or above.
Upcoming special events: Friday, August
2 at 12:30 p.m., Mental Health Talk by
VNS; Tuesday, August 6 at 12:30 p.m., nutrition
presentation; Thursday, August 8 at
1 p.m., City Island and movies.
For more information contact Patty at
(718) 885-0727 or email pattis@pssusa.
org for a monthly calendar.
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Do you need help getting to and from
your medical appointments? Transportation
services are available to seniors Monday
through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., in
community districts 9, 10, 11 and 12. The
program provides door-to-door service for
all medical appointments. Their drivers are
courteous and professional; and their vehicles
are clean and handicap accessible,
including wheelchair lifts.
For further information, contact Mildred
Cardona, program director of the R.A.I.N.
Transportation Program, at (718) 882-
8513.
We celebrate a little known
birthday in August...
Take a U.S. Life Saving
Service, a U.S. Lighthouse
Service, add in a Steamboat
Inspection Service with the
original Revenue Cutter Service
and 229 years later, on
August 4th, you have your
U.S. Coast Guard.
Sunday, August 4 is now
National Coast Guard Day
and NYC is now a Coast
Guard city, like several other
towns.
There’s hope for a budget
that will include a new Polar
Class Icebreaker to represent
and protect U.S. interests
and assets at the polar
regions. The Coast Guard
actually keeps one of it’s two
polar class breakers as spare
parts for the other.
The new Sentinel Class
patrol boats, are named after
light keepers who risked
their lives, both men and
women who lit a light.
The Virginia Beach Life
Boat Station manned by
Black Americans, or patrolling
at sea and on the rivers
of Vietnam during Operation
Market Time.
Fast forward to today with
over 34,000 lives saved by boat
or from the air in daring rescues
during Hurricane Katrina
and the Port Security
Units deployed to the Middle
East confl ict.
Drug busts at sea, rescues,
oil spills, migrant interdictions,
ship inspections, supporting
military operations
with our and other nation’s
navys - 24/7/365, covering
the globe with less personnel
than the NYPD, as well assolated
radio stations to the
Boating Safety Detachment,
Lake Tahoe (I wanted that
one!).
I personally thanked our
past national commander for
dedicating his Legion Magazine
column to the disgrace
of our ‘Coasties’ on Active
Duty having pay disruption
during sequester and the legion’s
generous monetary assistance
programs.
Their motto ‘Life Savers,
Rescue Experts, Heroes Every
Day, So Others May Live’
is fi ne but nothing can, in my
heart, ever replace ‘Semper
Paratus’ - always ready!
Until next time: Fair
winds, following seas and
farewell to our member Ed
Lagenbauer who passed after
a long medical battle *Salute*
BY MARY JANE MUSANO
I hope everyone is enjoying
the summer. I usually take a
break from writing during the
summer break but there have
recently been some issues that
are so important that I feel
that a column is necessary.
I am sure that everyone
has seen the alarming videos
of the dangerous physical assault
on our police offi cers.
I have watched it repeatedly
and each time I see it I am
more and more convinced that
this mayor must resign. He
has tied the hands of our offi -
cers and made them feel that
they not only can not protect
us for fear of retribution but
they cannot even protect themselves.
He has put the lives of
every police offi cer and every
resident in our city in danger
by his absolute refusal to support
the NYPD.
To see those offi cers being
doused with water and hit
with objects and then just walk
away with their heads bowed
was the scariest thing I have
ever seen happen in this city.
They were so afraid of the mayors
anti-police policies that
they turned and walked away
instead of arresting the criminals
that dared to assault them.
Now, every person in this city
is in danger. The criminals
have no fear of the law and no
respect for our offi cers. If our
offi cers are afraid to protect
themselves for sure they feel
they cannot protect us.
Please do not accept this
behavior. This is a crisis and
there is much we can do. If you
feel that the mayor must resign,
as I do, write and tell him
so. Write a letter to the editor
expressing your outrage and
go to every elected and demand
that they not only speak out
against this criminal activity
but more importantly tell them
to speak out against this mayors
refusal to support our police
offi cers. We need to unite
against this mayors dangerous
policies and I assure you that
our civic association is developing
a plan as I write these
words to you. I ask you, please,
speak out publicly against this
today. Do not wait.
Lately, it seems that we are
on our own with many issues
in our community. Therefore,
we must unite and fi ght
these issues together. There is
strength in numbers and we,
in our community, have always
been willing to fi ght for
the community we love.
At every civic association
meeting we receive complaints
regarding overdevelopment.
Residents realize that
our mayor is in favor of overdevelopment
as are some of
our electeds. When we overdevelop
without the consideration
of all that must precede
development we create sick
neighborhoods- not enough police,
not enough hospital beds,
insuffi cient infrastructure,
overcrowded schools, etc. We
create a place that has no quality
of life and a place that is
unhealthy in many ways.
For this reason, the civics
in our low-density communities
are uniting so that we
can bring some sense into the
unwise and unwanted zoning
policies we have right now.
So, please know that your
civics and community leaders
are communicating and are
hard at work to preserve our
low density status.
We still have much of the
summer left to enjoy but when
September rolls around (in the
blink of an eye) please be sure
to attend our September meeting
to learn more about both
issues. Of course, I am just a
phone call away for updates
(718) 792-6385.
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