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Public Affairs Department

Nassau University Medical Center
2201 Hempstead Turnpike, First Floor
(Near Hempstead Turnpike Entrance)
East Meadow, NY 11554

Phone: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(516) 572-6055
Fax: (516) 572-4831
After Hours: (516) 572-0123
(Request the page operator to contact a member of the Public Affairs staff)

Shelley Lotenberg
Director of Public Affairs
E-mail: shelley@numc.edu

Public Meetings

The above meetings will be available to stream live using the link below. The meetings will only be available to view while in progress.

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The above meetings will be available to stream live using the link below. The meetings will only be available to view while in progress.

Click here to view the meetings

DGEIS Community Meeting

Meeting Notice
Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement
DGEIS Technical Appendices
A. Holly Patterson Investigation Fact Sheet(English)
A. Holly Patterson Investigation Fact Sheet(Spanish)
A. Holly Patterson Investigation Fact Sheet Map
A. Holly Patterson Supplemental Investigation Work Plan
A. Holly Patterson Supplemental Investigation Approval Letter

Media Kit

Facts and Figures:

Meadowbrook Hospital opens in 1935 to serve indigent residents of Nassau County.

New 19 story Dynamic care Building with 530 beds opens in 1974. Meadowbrook Hospital renamed Nassau County Medical Center, a safety net level I trauma center and teaching hospital.

In 1999, Nassau Health Care Corporation, a public benefit corporation of New York State, is created and assumes control of the Nassau County Medical Center, A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility and seven community health centers. Bonds totaling $260 million were floated with $82 million going to Nassau County.

NCMC renamed Nassau University Medical Center in 2001. NHCC also becomes known as the NuHealth System in 2010, with an operating budget of $555M.

NUMC activity in 2010 included:

• 208,685 outpatient visits
• 72,722 emergency room visits
• 23,299 discharges of inpatients
• 4,363 ambulatory surgical visits
• 1,739 births
• 577 Average Daily Census in 2010 for AHP

Family Health Centers recorded 73,486 visits in 2010.

NuHealth employed 3640 in 2010, NUMC had a staff of 2995, AHP had a staff of 570 and the health centers had a staff of 75.

Recent renovation projects:

• Breast Center
• Burn Center
• Addition 30 bed Chemical Dependency Rehabilitation
• Addition 13 bed Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit
• Addition 35 bed Adult Psychiatric Unit
• Hypertension, Diabetes and Vascular Disease Center
• New Emergency department opened in May 2011
• New Health Centers opened in Roosevelt and in Hempstead
• Veterans Center opened in March 2011
• New Eye Center expected to open in September 2011
• Renovations of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department expected to be completed by September 2011
• Labor and delivery suites in Ob/GYN department expected to be completed by end of 2011
• Renovation of intensive care units expected to be completed by early 2012

Events

04/14/11 - The NuHealth System honored six hundred and forty staff members at the Sixth Annual Staff Recognition Award Dinner at Leonard’s of Great Neck

Each one of the honorees is deserving of recognition and appreciation for all that they do for our patients. They have demonstrated continued and unwavering dedication as evidenced by their exemplary accomplishments during their many years working within the NuHealth System.

Our Board of Directors and Executive Staff applaud the six hundred and forty men and women, as well as our two Earl Stroughton Award recipients, Francine Heslin and Helen Keating, for their fine work in improving the lives of our patients each and every day of the year and your continuing commitment to the success of the Nassau University Medical Center, the A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility, Correctional Health Services and the Family Health Centers.

2011 Staff Recognition Award Dinner Slide Show

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04/20/11 - The Institute for Health Equity to host 3rd Annual Best Practices Conference “Educating, Empowering and Strengthening Innovative Mental Health Solutions”

The Institute for Health Equity in partnership with Nassau County Dept of Health; Nassau County Dept of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency, and Developmental and Disabilities Services; Long Island Families Together, Inc.; and the Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at NUMC

Will be hosting the 3rd Annual Best Practices Conference
“Educating, Empowering and Strengthening Innovative Mental Health Solutions”

Featuring Keynote Address by Dr. Kenneth Minkoff
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Wednesday April 20, 2011 8am – 1pm
at Nassau University Medical Center - Amphitheater

Continental Breakfast will be served
Registration Fee: $10
CME and CNE are available

For conference details or to register, please see brochure.
For more information contact Karen Banks 516.546.4210 / kbanks@numc.edu

Brochure

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10/05/10 - NUMC Acquires Latest Generation Of Diagnostic Technology In Women’s Imaging

First Time Since Creation In 1999 as a Public Benefit Corporation, Nuhealth System With Numc as Only Safety-Net Hospital in Nassau County, Ends Year 2009 in The Black With $804,000 Surplus

More videos from the opening »

Arthur Gianelli Introduction

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06/10/10 - 2010 NuHealth Staff Picnic at A. Holly Patterson

The NuHealth System held an employee picnic on Saturday July 10, 2010 from 11am to 4pm on the grounds and in the auditorium of AHP. Over 600 staff and immediate family members enjoyed an exciting day of activities and events. Not even the rain could stop the Therapeutic Recreation Staff from AHP & NUMC, assisted by a committee of volunteers and Girl Scouts, from providing a fun-filled day of face painting, arts and crafts, hula hoop contest, basketball shooting contest, musical chairs and a water balloon toss. Other events included a balloon dart board and an ice cream eating contest and raffles throughout the day. Entertainment was provided by Fr. Bill and his Banjo Band and Big Daddy DJ & Co. Everyone was treated to delicious barbecue food including hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, and ribs with all the trimmings prepared by the AHP dietary department. Thanks to the AHP Volunteers, AHP CSEA and the LI Medical Foundation for providing the prizes and entertainment. Thanks to all who attended and helped make this event such a huge success. Please view the slideshow to see how much fun we had!

Slide Show

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6/08/10 - NuHealth Ends Year in Black

First Time Since Creation In 1999 as a Public Benefit Corporation, Nuhealth System With Numc as Only Safety-Net Hospital in Nassau County, Ends Year 2009 in The Black With $804,000 Surplus

More videos from the opening »

Arthur Gianelli Introduction

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5/20/10 - Mosenson Center Opening

Nuhealth and Nassau County Announce Opening of Jeffrey Mosenson Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine at the Nassau County Fire Police EMS Academy at NUMC

More videos from the opening »

Arthur Gianelli Introduction

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3/16/10 - Cardiology Patient Delivers Baby

Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy Patient Delivery Baby at 36 Weeks at NUMC, Recieving Implantable Defibrillator by NUMC Disciplinary Team, Saving Her Life and That of Her Baby

More videos from the opening »

Arthur Gianelli Intro May 6, 2010

NuHealth in the News

OCTOBER 2010

East Meadow Patch 10/1/2010
4 NUMC Physicians
East Meadow Patch, which highlights the promotion of four of our emergency department physicians, Drs.Ting, Park, Ng and Kapoor, to associate directors, in anticipation of the opening of the new NUMC emergency department in early February.
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Long Island Business News 10/1/2010
NuHealth obtains $7 million grant
NuHealth System has been awarded a $7 million grant to help with a wide range of upgrades to facilities including its labor and delivery suites, intensive care unit and cardiac catherization laboratory. The East Meadow-based system on Sept. 30 was notified by the New York State Department of Health that it had been awarded a Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers or HEAL NY grant.
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Newsday 10/5/2010
East Meadow Hospital unveils patient translation system
This is an article in Newsday, dealing with the Nassau University Medical Center joining the PARAS all language video interpreter networks. This easy to use video system will provide instant access to trained interpreters, including signed language, in a call center with the advantage of economies of scale. It will help to reduce medical errors, improve customer service and patient safety, boosting productivity by our in-house interpreters and helping to save funds relative to the cost of contracted interpreting services. Please click on the link below to read the Newsday article and view the video.
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East Meadow Patch 10/6/2010
NUMC Unveils New Breast Cancer Screening Equipment
This is an article in the East Meadow Patch, dealing with the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony for our Women’s Imaging Center at the Nassau University Medical Center. With a $1.2M donation from the Gitenstein Foundation, we were able to purchase three digital mammography units, a densitometry and an ultrasound system, providing Nassau County women who use our services, with the most advanced screening and diagnostic technology, helping to save lives. Please click on the link below to read the article.
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Newsday 10/6/2010
Newsday’s special section on “Hot Jobs Now”
The article includes part of the series “The Future of LI”, highlighting careers most in demand in the years to come. Several of the NuHealth System's senior executives were quoted, relative to where the jobs will be, highlighting a healthy growth in the medical field, as well as including a focus on one of our dental assistants and one of our physician assistants.

East Meadow Patch 10/11/10
Taking A Deeper Look into Diabetes
Dr. Steven Walerstein's weekly column included in the online newspaper, East Meadow Patch, dealing with diabetes. Dr. Walerstein is the NuHealth System's executive vice president for medical affairs and medical director, who has been invited to write a weekly column on various health topics of his choice. Last week's column dealt with the flu and future columns will deal with services and health issues of importance to the patients served by the Nassau University Medical Center. Please click on the link below to read this week's column.
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Newsday 10/12/2010
Attached are two PDFs to Newsday Healthlink section, in which NUMC had a full page advertisement for our digital mammography center and an advertorial highlighting our recent achievements and improvements.

East Meadow Herald 10/13/2010
New Technology Enhances NUMC Breast Center
In an article in the East Meadow Herald, deals with the recent opening of the NuHealth System's Women's Imaging Center at the Nassau University Medical Center. This is another milestone in the modernization of our facility and we are delighted to be able to provide women on Long Island with the latest diagnostic and screening technology, helping to detect cancers earlier and save lives. Please click on the link below to read the release.
Read the Article »

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SEPTEMBER 2010

Long Island Business News 9/8/2010
Miracle Grow Founder Makes NuHealth Donation
Prominent Philanthropist Amy Hagedorn donates to the Long Island Medical Foundation, for its OB/GYN department.
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Long Island Business News 9/17/2010
NUMC Launches Diversity Program
Nassau University Medical Center has hired three women from around the nation through a new diversity fellowship program. The hospital in East Meadow owned by NuHealth hired them for one year through a new Minority Administrative Fellowship Program. The positions are funded through NuHealth’s operating budget. This was an effort to create a more diverse work force and train future health care leaders.
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East Meadow Herald & Long Island Herald 9/20/2010
Kiwanian unveils new playroom for patients at NUMC
September 9th was the ribbon cutting to the new playrooms at the Nassau University Medical Center's Pediatric Unit. Dr. Perrick, a past president of the Kiwanis Club of East Meadow, was joined by fellow Kiwanians and NUMC staff members to celebrate the unveiling of the rooms, one designed for kids and the other for teenagers. The playrooms were a result of Perrick's presidential project, a tradition for Kiwanian leaders. He led an effort to raise $6,000 for the modernization of an area that described as barren and outdated.
Read the Article »

Long Island Business News 9/20/2010
NuHealth CEO at the Head of the Class
NuHealth System CEO Arthur A. Gianelli has been appointed an adjunct faculty member at Hofstra University, where he’s teaching a graduate class in health care economics this semester.
Read the Article »

East Meadow Herald 9/2010
NUMC to Host Young Singing Competition
HealthFirst and NuHealth are known for their efforts in providing healthcare to children and their families. Now the two organizations are offering children a chance to be in the spotlight. In October, the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow will host the opening rounds of the inaugural Nassau Youth Singing Competition. HealthFirst and NuHealth, which are co-sponsoring the contest, announced on Monday about 286 children were registered.
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LI Herald 9/22/2010
A Tasteful Evening for the East Meadow Chamber
The East Meadow Chamber of Commerce hosted Culinary Delights, on Monday night at Carltun on the Park in Eisenhower Park. Hundreds of community members attended the event, which showcased the best food that East Meadow and Nassau County has to offer. Guests had a chance to enjoy as much food as they could handle. There were also wine and beer tastings, as well as raffles, live music and an auction. Proceeds from the 2010 Culinary Delights were donated to several causes in the community, including: the Nassau-Suffolk Chapter of the Autism Society of America, the East Meadow Parent Athletic Club, the New York District Kiwanis Foundation's Kamp Kiwanis, the East Meadow Little League and the Nassau University Medical Center.
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Newsday 9/25/2010
FDA ruling spurs LI doctors to take patients off Avandia
This health article in which Dr. Ken Hupart, chief of endocrinology and metabolism at NUMC, is quoted. The article concerns an FDA ruling on the diabetes medication Avandia, which doctors are stopping prescribing, due to an increase in heart attacks and deaths among diabetics who had been using that medication.
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Long Island Business News 9/27/2010
NuHealth board adopts 2011 budget
The article is dealing with the adoption, by the NuHealth board of directors, of a $567M budget for 2011, with a projected loss of $8.9M, due in large part to increased employee pension and health insurance expenses. As we have successfully done in past years, management is continually reviewing areas of possible expense reductions and revenue enhancement.
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East Meadow Patch 9/28/2010
This new website shares several articles written about the Nassau University Medical Center, included in a new online newspaper, East Meadow Patch, part of the Patch.com group of community online newspapers, funded by AOL. In the first issue, you can find NUMC under the section for health, with several recent press releases, almost a hundred photos taken by editor, Michael Ganci during his recent tour of the hospital, and an article on the flu season, written by our own medical director, Dr. Steven Walerstein, under the heading “The Doctor Is In” on the home page.
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La Tribuna Hispana 9/29/2010
Carlos Alvarez, executive director of the NuHealth’s Institute for Health Equity, discusses preventive medicine and highlights the September 25th health and wellness fair, held in Freeport. He focuses on prevention, detection and management of illnesses, such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and where one can obtain medical attention at the NuHealth System’s four family health centers.

News 12 9/29/2010
Dr. David Fagan, pediatrician and program director for our peds residency program, will be interviewed during tonight’s evening segment on News 12, starting at 10PM. He will be discussing the dangers attributed to baby positioners, with risks of suffocation.

Herald Newspapers 9/30/2010
Island Harvest’s summit on hunger on Long Island
The summit, which Art Gianelli moderated, brought together business leaders, educators and community organizations to brainstorms ways to fight hunger on LI.
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AUGUST 2010

Newsday 8/13/2010
Top Doctors- Understanding C- Sections
Dr. Chaur-Dong Hsu, chair of obstetrics/gynecology at the Nassau University Medical Center. The article deals with understanding C-sections and reasons for Long Island’s high rates. Dr. Hsu, recently recognized as a top doctor by castle Connolly Medical Ltd., specializes in maternal and fetal medicine, high risk obstetrics.
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Long Island Business News 8/25/2010
Hospitals Offer One Stop Shops for Women
Dr. Chaur-Dong Hsu, chair, and Dr. Lennox Bryson are quoted in the article speaking about the high rates of C-sections on Long Island.
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