News & Announcements

Celebrating American Heart Month with tiny red hats!
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On February 4th, the finalists were announced for the Long Island Imagine Awards. DDI is in the running for the Empire National Bank Innovation Award.
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There's still time to get #bFair2DirectCare funding into the NYS Budget so that Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) can earn a living wage! Here's how you can help secure this critical funding!
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Registration is now open for DDI's 2019 Annual Golf Classic.
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“NYS risks failing in its constitutional obligation” without living wage funding for direct care workers
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Order your Valentine a beautiful basket made by the talented individuals supported at DDI!
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On January 24th, DDI’s Adult Residential Services hosted its second Men’s Health and Wellness event at our Meadow Glen campus. More than eighty individuals attended the event eager to learn more after hearing about the success of the Women’s Health and Wellness evening just a few months prior.
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Long Island health care providers will receive nearly $16 million to expand services, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office announced Tuesday.

Dr. James Powell Jr., chief medical officer of Long Island Select Healthcare Inc. in Central Islip, said the company will purchase equipment such as stethoscopes, oxygen detectors and devices to perform EKGs. Photo Credit: James Carbone
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**Pointed Message Greets Millions of Visitors to “The Crossroads of the World”

**ALBANY – #bFair2DirectCare today unveiled a 5,000-sq-foot billboard over Times Square that urges Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fund a living wage for direct care workers who support New Yorkers with developmental disabilities. The Governor failed to include living wage funding in his $176 billion budget proposal, even though it would amount to 0.05% of the total.
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Today is #NationalWearRedDay. One in three. That's the price women pay for cardiovascular disease.
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