Coast Guard Gifts Good Sam Pediatric With Holiday Cheer

Members of Good Samaritan Hospital’s Pediatric Emergency Department, shown left to right, Director of Nursing Education Dorri Bechtel, RN, Associate Director of Pediatrics Reethamma Daniel, MD, Child Life Specialist Nancy Kennedy, Laura Frost, RN and Nurse Manager, Emergency Department Christy Meyer, RN, accept generous toy donation collected by the Long Island Chief Petty Officer Association of the U. S. Coast Guard, coordinated by Petty Officer First Class Thaina Vasquez (center). 

Units across Long Island collected more than 400 gifts for pediatric patients and their siblings.