LI hospitals help homeless employees
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Mary LaPorta, an employee at Franklin Hospital, with her dog Ruby and son Anthony in the living room of a home provided to her by North Shore-LIJ. LaPorta's home in Broad Channel was destroyed by superstorm Sandy. (Nov. 13, 2012)
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Several Long Island hospitals are providing housing, food and even loans to staff left homeless by Sandy, while others are still trying to find out how many employees need help.
No one knows how many of Long Island's more than 47,000 hospital workers remain homeless more than two weeks after the superstorm -- even while many continue to go to work.
"It's safe to say it's in the thousands,"...
