Angela's House
Coordination of Complex Home Care Services and Residential Services for Medically Fragile Children

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Spring 2005 Edition
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Angela's House II Opens

This beautiful home in Smithtown for medically fragile children is now open. This is the second specialty home on Long Island for children that require 24 hour nursing supervision. The first Angela's House was built in 2000 in the Policastro’s 10 year effort to have a facility that could care for children on Long Island. The Policastro’s daughter was in a specialty hospital in Connecticut due to the sad fact that there were no facilities locally that could care for her needs. NYS Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg helped obtain the funding to open these special homes.

Our affiliate IGHL, Independent Group Home Living, pulled together their development and program departments to help create this state of the art home.

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It took a great effort to make this home possible.

Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg was excited about the home. He feels it is a great opportunity for Long Island families, especially his key point that our children should not be cared for out of state.

Walter Stockton, CEO of IGHL, thanked all the people that made this special home possible.

Bob Policastro spoke about the home being a dream come true. He explained the warm feeling, the spirit one feels as you enter into this home. He explained the never ending love families have for the children moving into Angela's House, and the tremendous courage it takes for a family to place a child.

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