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St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
327 Beach 19th Street
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
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MEDIA ADVISORY
Community & Back-to-School Wellness Fair
WHAT: Back-to-School Wellness Fair featuring health
screenings, health education, and fun activities. Typically, more
than 700 community members attend this event yearly. 1,000
backpacks filled with school supplies will be given to children in
attendance.
WHO: Community members, community organizations,
healthcare organizations, and elected officials.
WHEN: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 12:00 pm.
CEO and Elected Official Remarks, and Backpack Giveaway
begin at 2:00 pm.
WHERE: Event to be held on Brookhaven Avenue, between
Beach 19th Street and Beach 20th Street (in front of St. John’s
Episcopal Hospital).
WHY: To educate community members and provide them with
health resources, health screenings, and school supplies to
support success in the upcoming school year.
A COOL POOL Q: My friend owned a house with an in-ground rectangular-shaped
swimming pool. In the deep end, the walls below the water line were not vertical.
Rather, they slanted inward toward the center of the bottom. There was no
marking to show that the walls slanted. Although the pool did not have a diving
board, there were no signs warning that diving was prohibited. I had never swum
there before, was not familiar with the pool, and had not noticed the slant of the
deep-end wall. From the side, I dove in. On the slanted portion of the deep end
wall, I struck my head.
A: The owner of a private residential swimming pool has a duty to maintain
the pool in a reasonably safe condition. A landowner also has the duty to warn of
potentially dangerous conditions that are not readily observable.
Your attorney will contend that the slanted walls were dangerous and
that your friend had notice (a) that the walls slanted inward toward the center and
(b) that the depth was not marked. Your friend’s attorney may well respond that
(a) he lacked notice that the pool was unsafe for diving, (b) the accident was caused
by an error in your judgment, and (c) you assumed the risk of injury.
So long as the accident happened some time after construction of the
pool was completed, it should be relatively easy for you to establish that your
friend indeed had (a) notice of the condition and (b) sufficient time to remedy it. It
does not sound like your conduct was the sole proximate cause of your injuries. As
for the doctrine of ‘primary assumption of risk’, it applies only to a commonlyappreciated
risk that is inherent in, and arises out of, the recreational activity in
which you were engaged. Your attorney will note that slanted walls are neither
inherent nor common.
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