Call for Reopening of Community Healthcare Facility in Five Towns/Inwood. Nassau County Executive candidate Jack Martins called for the reopening of a community healthcare facility at the Five Towns/Inwood Community Center to provide primary and preventive care to the surrounding community.

Unlike other areas in Nassau County, Inwood and the Five Towns area does not have a clinic that provides healthcare to the local community. The facility that served this area was closed nearly 20 years ago. Members of the underserved community currently need to travel to Queens or to an emergency room at a hospital for basic care.

“Community healthcare centers providing primary and preventive care is a model that works. Reopening a healthcare center here would provide the community with much-needed access to health services,” Martins said. “Instead of having only the option of going to an emergency room when someone gets very sick, families can receive primary and preventive care to take care of their health as they would if they were under a doctor’s care on private insurance. It means less lost work time and also saves money in the healthcare system because people are not being admitted when they are in crisis.”

Debate Taping at News 12. “Nassau County voters have a clear choice: Jack Martins’s experience, ability, and ideas vs. a one-note song looking backward, not forward, for the people of Nassau County,” Martins spokesperson Mollie Fullington said. “Jack Martins has deep and relevant experience as a former mayor and state senator that will enable him to administer Nassau County’s $3 billion budget, win back the public trust in government, and get Nassau back on the right track by implementing plans to build infrastructure, a range of housing stock and encourage businesses to move here, so that our young people can remain here to live, work, and raise their families.”

As mayor of Mineola, Martins developed balanced, fiscally responsible budgets and debt-management plans that substantially reduced Mineola’s debt and returned the village to a sound financial footing. He also led the effort to create Mineola’s award-winning master redevelopment plan that expanded the village’s economic base through smart growth principles.

As a state senator, Martins enacted a historic series of balanced, on-time state budgets while cutting state taxes on middle-class families to the lowest level in 50 years, enacting the state property-tax cap and delivering record state funding for Nassau County schools.

Martins has been endorsed by former New York State Governor George E. Pataki, Congressman Peter King, and has also secured deep union support for his candidacy for Nassau County Executive as a result of having the right experience to lead Nassau forward, including from the Civil Service Employees Association, the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, the Superior Officers Union, Nassau Correction Officers Benevolent Association, Detectives’ Association Incorporated, Deputy Sheriff’s Benevolent Association, Inc., Police Medic Benevolent Association, Fire Marshal Benevolent Association, the Court Officers Benevolent Association, Local 237 Teamsters, the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, and the NYC District Council of Carpenters.

Jack Martins is the Republican, Conservative, and Reform Party nominee for Nassau County executive. Jack is a former three-term New York State senator and the former mayor of Mineola. He lives in Nassau with his wife and four daughters. Jack Martins is focused on making Nassau County a better place to live, work, and raise a family. As Nassau County executive, Jack is committed to ending the corruption that has compromised the public’s trust in government, protecting local property taxpayers, and creating an economic renaissance to provide a brighter future for the middle class. The election is November 7. 

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