The party seemed to have everything, including a Long Island-based sponsor: the parent company of Nassau University Medical Center, the public safety-net hospital in East Meadow. In 2024, the Nassau Health Care Foundation — a nonprofit part of that parent corporation — spent $10,000 to sponsor the “Power Women of Grace Gala,” a benefit for the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, according to records obtained by Newsday via a public records request. Records show that, in 2024 and 2025, the foundation spent over $150,000 on parties — including staff events at wine bars, resident graduation ceremonies and sponsorships at events. The foundation’s mission, according to its own records, was to provide support to NUMC and the affiliated A. Holly Patterson nursing home. But its spending came as the facility was losing tens of millions of dollars annually — and as administrators were pleading for state money to keep it afloat. Link in bio for more on how Newsday reported last month that the state ...