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Executive suite: Linda Cunegin, health agency chief

Quick ReadLinda Cunegin helms Tri-County Home Nursing Services of Westbury, the business her mother started in 1981.

Linda Cunegin, president of Tri-County Home Nursing Services,

Photo credit: Pablo Corradi | Linda Cunegin, president of Tri-County Home Nursing Services, is flanked by her daughters who also are in the family business -- Taniella, left, and Giana Harrison. The company office is in Westbury. (January 2010)

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When Ella Ferguson died in 2002, her daughter, Linda Cunegin, had to decide whether to sell or take over Tri-County Home Nursing Services, the home health care agency her mother founded in 1981.

"My mother's employees and the clients had been together for like 15 years, and it was just too much" to sell it, Cunegin says. "I said, well, let me keep my legacy."

This month, the Westbury-based...

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