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Nassau University Medical Center officials are narrowing their search for a new CEO that the East Meadow hospital's stakeholders hope will give NUMC stability after its gone through four leaders in two years.

It’s too soon to know what Trump or the incoming Republican Congress will replace Obamacare with, but it’s not too early to discuss what’s at stake: the capability of health care providers and local hospitals to provide adequate coverage for patients, the Island's means of effectively tackling its unremitting heroin epidemic, and the sustainability and future of the region's health care economy overall—which grew by 25,000 jobs since the law was passed, with 218,000 currently employed within the health care industry throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties, according to the New York State Department of Labor.

State officials want to know: Is New York ready to deal with a potential Ebola case?