Nursing home's future now up to Bellone
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Steve Bellone speaks about his transition to the county executive seat in his office at Babylon Town Hall. (Dec. 20, 2011)
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It started a century ago as the county's almshouse in Yaphank for Suffolk's sick and poor.
During the Depression in the 1930s, the federal Work Progress Administration built what for years was the county infirmary, a nursing home that operated for more than a half century.
The current 264-bed nursing home, named after its late champion, Legis. John J. Foley, was built nearly two decades...
