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MINORITY MILLENNIALS
PLANNING BRIGHTER FUTURES
BY ROB PELAEZ
When Daniel Lloyd of Wyandanch
realized that many people in their
20s and 30s were largely unaware
of social issues affecting them, he
decided to step up and start organizing
his peers.
So three years ago the entrepreneur
founded the nonprofit Minority
Millennials, Inc. a grassroots
organization that advocates for millennials
— those between ages 24
and 38 — who are people of color on
Long Island. The group’s initiatives
include voter enrollment drives,
polling, and career mentoring.
“We are looking to get more representation
for the future,” Lloyd
says. “It’s all about changing the
narrative in a grand sense.”
Minority Millennials has around
20 volunteers who aim to train
future leaders and develop initiatives
to build wealth, home
ownership, and political
equity.
While the organization
is currently focused
on aiding the segment
of the millennial generation
who are minorities,
Lloyd says that
there are also programs
in place
to help engage
m i n o r i t i e s
who are part
of Generation
Z — those 24
and younger.
Among the
areas Lloyd
hopes to affect
change in is the
core issue of affordable housing,
the lack of which on LI has contributed
to the region’s brain
drain as young people
continue to move away
to places with a lower
cost of living.
“There are a lot of
nuances when it
comes to mixed-use
housing,” Lloyd says.
“While it works for some
people, there are other
programs that I
feel could be
implemented
throughout
Long Island
that would
appeal to millennials,
developers,
and
residents in the
affected areas.”
He noted the Safe, Mixed-income,
Accessible, Reasonably-priced,
and Transit-oriented. (SMART)
housing program that the city
of Austin, Texas created to
assist students who are either
receiving financial aid or who
are paying for school through
student loans.
“The SMART housing program provides
a change to the narrative of
affordable and progressive housing
for a younger community,” Lloyd
said. “We don’t want to transform
all of Long Island into Queens,
and this program ensures that the
structures accommodate the basic
needs of a millennial generation
while providing a fresh living
environment.”
To learn more, get involved, or
provide a donation, visit minoritymillennials.
org
Minority Millennials founder Daniel
Lloyd is organizing his generation.
Huntington Hospital earns four-star rating from CMS
HUNTINGTON, NY – Huntington
Hospital has achieved a prestigious four-star
rating from the U.S. Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) in its annual 2020
hospital rankings, its comprehensive quality
measurement report released on January 30.
CMS hospital rankings of more than 4,000
Medicare-certied facilities nationwide take
into account over 50 performance measures
that analyze health care outcomes such as
readmission rates, patient experience, safety
and quality of care. CMS’ hospital rankings
are considered among the best hospital
report cards to help inform where to receive
medical care.
Huntington Hospital’s CMS rating
follows its recognition as New York State’s
highest-ranked community hospital by U.S.
News & World Report in its 2019-20 Best
Hospital list.
consistently setting and meeting high
“From redesigning our Center for
benchmarks for health care quality, we at
Mothers & Babies to include all private
Huntington Hospital take our patients’ needs
rooms for a better patient experience to
to heart as we thoughtfully provide them
with world-class care,” said Nick Fitterman,
MD, executive director of Huntington
Hospital. “We are always looking at ways to
not only provide the necessary health care
that our Suolk County residents require,
but to go above and beyond to give them the
best medical care available.”
Huntington Hospital nurses have
received the highest nursing honor – Magnet
designation – a Long Island record four
times in a row. e hospital’s orthopedics
program has also been consistently been
ranked by the Joint Commission with the
gold seal of approval for its hip and knee
replacements and was among the top one
percent nationally in orthopedics, according
to U.S. News. Huntington Hospital has also
been designated as a Center of Excellence in
Minimally Invasive Gynecology and a Center
of Excellence in Robotic Surgery by the
Surgical Review Corporation.
For more information about Huntington
Hospital, go to huntington.northwell.edu or
call 631-351-2000.
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