{"id":2263,"date":"2015-11-20T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2015-11-20T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:16:23","slug":"124th-annual-rainbow-ball-honors-dr-cono-grasso-chairman-of-ophthalmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/124th-annual-rainbow-ball-honors-dr-cono-grasso-chairman-of-ophthalmology\/","title":{"rendered":"124th Anniversary Rainbow Ball- Honors Dr. Cono Grasso Chairman of Ophthalmology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/124th-annual-rainbow-ball-honors-dr-cono-grasso-chairman-of-ophthalmology\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><div id=\"attachment_2264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2264\" class=\"wp-image-2264 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rainbow-Ball-2-IMG_8584-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Ball 2 IMG_8584\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President and C.E.O of Jamaica Hospital, Bruce J. Flanz presented Dr. Cono Grasso with an award of recognition.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last Saturday Jamaica Hospital Medical Center celebrated its 124<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Rainbow Ball at Citi Field. The Rainbow Ball is an opportunity for supporters of Jamaica Hospital to celebrate its accomplishments and raise funds for future projects. \u00a0A guest of honor is also recognized each year for their devotion to the hospital. This year\u2019s honoree was Dr. Cono Grasso; Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology.<\/p>\n<p>The event commenced with the singing of the national anthem followed by a warm greeting from President and C.E.O of Jamaica Hospital, Bruce J. Flanz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/grasso-giving-speech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2265\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/grasso-giving-speech-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"grasso  giving speech\" width=\"257\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/grasso-giving-speech-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/grasso-giving-speech-1024x944.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/grasso-giving-speech-325x300.jpg 325w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/grasso-giving-speech.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>Mr. Flanz later introduced Dr. Grasso to over 500 guests and presented him with the distinguished award of recognition-which Dr. Grasso graciously accepted amidst the applause and cheers from the crowd.\u00a0 He thanked his family, friends and colleagues for supporting him and believing in his vision for the ophthalmology department.<\/p>\n<p>For the remainder of the evening guests enjoyed a delicious spread of food and desserts, participated in mini golf challenges and danced to a live band.\u00a0 The fun carried on during the raffle and grand prize drawing where contestants won trips, gift cards and electronics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/group-with-grasso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2266\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/group-with-grasso-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"group with grasso\" width=\"262\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In all the 124<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Rainbow Ball was a great success and celebration of, as best said by our President Mr. Flanz, \u201ca true gentleman whose dedication and compassion to our patients and the community that we serve is an inspiration to all.\u201d Congratulations Dr. Cono Grasso on being this year\u2019s honoree and thank you for your dedication to Jamaica Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more pictures from this event, as well as other hospital highlights join Jamaica and Flushing Hospital on social media:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/jamaicahospital\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com\/JamaicaHospital<\/a>\u00a0 or<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/flushinghospital\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Facebook.com\/Flushing Hospital\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamaicaHospital\" target=\"_blank\">@JamaicaHospital <\/a>or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FHMC_NYC\" target=\"_blank\">@FHMC_NYC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareLast Saturday Jamaica Hospital Medical Center celebrated its 124th Anniversary Rainbow Ball at Citi Field. The Rainbow Ball is an opportunity for supporters of Jamaica Hospital to celebrate its accomplishments and raise funds for future projects. \u00a0A guest of honor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/124th-annual-rainbow-ball-honors-dr-cono-grasso-chairman-of-ophthalmology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}