{"id":7381,"date":"2020-02-27T21:41:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2020-02-27T21:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:41:59","slug":"this-month-we-shine-our-spotlight-on-ray-fredericks-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/this-month-we-shine-our-spotlight-on-ray-fredericks-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month We Shine Our Spotlight on Ray Fredericks, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ray-Fredericks-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7383\" width=\"353\" height=\"268\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This month we are proud to shine our Employee Spotlight on\nRay Fredericks, Jr.&nbsp; Ray has been with\nthe hospital for close to thirty years. He is a familiar sight on both campuses\nas well as our facility in Melville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray grew up in Bethpage Long Island. He graduated from\nPlainedge High School and then went on to BOCES Tech where he obtained his\ndegree in Printing in 1986. He currently lives in Orange County New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most important aspects of Ray\u2019s life is spending\ntime with his very close knit family. He has a fourteen year old son who he\nenjoys spending time with and they share many of the same interests. They often\nhave air hockey tournaments at home and Ray enjoys watching his son participate\nin Pokemon competitions. To Ray, family is everything. His family spends a\ngreat deal of time together and of course, &nbsp;enjoys celebrating holidays and other special\nevents with one another. They have also traveled together as a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray loves the outdoors and enjoys partaking in all kinds of\noutdoor activities, especially hiking and fishing. He enjoys playing&nbsp; the drums, and dancing. Ray\u2019s other interests\ninclude reading, (especially about history), and going to the movies. He is an\navid photographer also. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray is very proud to be a part of the Jamaica Hospital\nfamily. In fact, three generations of his family work either at the hospital or\nthe MediSys Network. He enjoys the comraderie and the sense of belonging to a\nwonderful organization that does great things for our patients.&nbsp; We are very proud to have Ray working with us\nand we look forward to him being a part of the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center\nand MediSys Network for many more years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">All content of this newsletter is intended for general information purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.  Please consult a medical professional before adopting any of the suggestions on this page.   You must never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment based upon any content of this newsletter.<strong>  PROMPTLY CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR CALL 911 IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month we are proud to shine our Employee Spotlight on Ray Fredericks, Jr.&nbsp; Ray has been with the hospital for close to thirty years. He is a familiar sight on both campuses as well as our facility in Melville. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/this-month-we-shine-our-spotlight-on-ray-fredericks-jr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}