SNCH was selected based on its clinical excellence, quality care and clinical quality and patient safety awards for women's health services. Becker's Hospital Review is a bimonthly magazine published by ASC Communications located in Chicago, IL.

1. For Immediate Release April 8, 2016
Contact: Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
(516) 377-5370
For 3rd
Consecutive Year, South Nassau Named to
Becker’s List of 100 Hospitals with Great Women’s Health Programs
Photo Caption: South Nassau offers a comprehensive scope of women's healthcare services, including its
Center for Women’s Imaging, which provides the experts and advanced diagnostic technologies needed to
detect breast disease in its earliest stage.
Oceanside, NY… For the third consecutive year, Becker's Hospital Review has named South Nassau
Communities Hospital to its of "100 Hospitals with Great Women's Health Programs" in the United States.
South Nassau was selected based on its clinical excellence, quality care and clinical quality and patient
safety awards for women's health services. Becker's Hospital Review is a bimonthly magazine published by
ASC Communications located in Chicago, Ill.
“This award underscores our commitment to providing the very best of care to women. From high-risk
pregnancies and infertility to breast cancer and reproductive malignancies, women across the South Shore know
they can depend upon South Nassau,” said Richard J. Murphy, South Nassau's president and CEO.
“We have been strengthening our specialty services for women in recent years at South Nassau and this
recognition validates those efforts,” added Alan Garely, MD, chair of obstetrics and gynecology.
The editorial team of Becker's Hospital Review based their selection of hospitals to the list on national
rankings and awards received from several institutions, including U.S. News & World Report national and
regional rankings for gynecology, CareChex rankings for women's health care, women's health Healthgrades
awards, Women's Choice Award's Best Breast Centers list and Baby-Friendly designation from Baby-Friendly
USA, the accrediting body for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the U.S.
South Nassau offers a comprehensive scope of women's healthcare services, including breast health,
obstetrics and gynecology, women's imaging, and gynecologic oncology.
South Nassau’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology offers women access to specialized health
care for optimum treatment of reproductive health conditions, from endometrial biopsies and colposcopies to
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2. gynecologic oncology. At South Nassau's Women's Center for Pelvic Floor Disorders, all-too-common
conditions such as incontinence and constipation are effectively diagnosed and treated using state-of-the-art
technology administered by highly skilled surgeons. This service is found in only a handful of locations in the
country, and South Nassau is one of them.
In the hospital’s Center for New Beginnings, a team of compassionate, experienced obstetricians labor
and delivery nurses, high-risk pregnancy specialists delivered 2,051 babies in 2015. In addition to advanced
maternal-fetal medical technologies, the Center features 26 private family/newborn rooms with first-class hotel
like accommodations, spacious labor and delivery rooms, and a 6-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Staffed by board-certified neonatologists, the NICU provides the specialized care and is equipped with the
dedicated medical technologies that premature deliveries and newborns with developmental complications or
conditions require. The Center also has a dedicated state-of-the-art surgical suite for mothers needing a
Caesarean section delivery.
A recipient of the New York State Department of Health’s Perinatal Quality Collaborative Obstetrical
Improvement Quality Improvement Award, the center maintains a “five star” rating for patient safety and
quality care from an independent national hospital and healthcare ratings organization. The rating is based on
an in-depth evaluation of the quality of maternity, obstetrical and gynecological care over a three year period, in
the 19 states, which includes New York, where hospital patient outcomes data is publically available.
South Nassau’s Center for Women’s Imaging (CWI) provides the experts and advanced diagnostic
technologies needed to detect breast disease in its earliest stage. A designated Breast Imaging Center of
Excellence by the American College of Radiology, CWI offers an array of state-of-the-art diagnostic
technologies, including digital mammography, high resolution ultrasound and MRI of the breast.
If a tumor or abnormality is detected, the Center for Breast Health at South Nassau Communities
Hospital’s Gertrude & Louis Feil Cancer Center offers the most advanced treatments for breast cancer and uses
targeted surgical techniques that aim to preserve as much of the healthy breast and surrounding areas as
possible. This includes breast-conserving surgery (commonly known as lumpectomy), in which only the tumor
or abnormality is removed from the breast; or mastectomy, an operation in which the whole breast is removed.
For invasive breast cancer, these procedures may be accompanied by a sentinel lymph node biopsy, which is a
minimally invasive technique for staging of lymph nodes.
Oncoplastic surgical techniques are also offered. Oncoplasty combines surgical cancer removal with
plastic surgery techniques to produce a superior cosmetic end result. Recommendations for whole-body or
"systemic" treatments, such as hormonal therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of two of
the three therapies, may follow either surgical approach. If early-stage breast cancer is present, sentinel lymph
node biopsy is used as an alternative to traditional lymph node dissection.
The Center for Breast Health is accredited by the American College of Surgeon's National Accreditation
Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). NAPBC accreditation is granted only to those centers that have

3. voluntarily committed to provide the best in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment and is able to comply with
established NAPBC standards.
The “100 Hospitals with Great Women’s Health Programs” listing is among a multitude of other awards
for safety and quality that South Nassau has earned during the past year, including:
• ‘A’ for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group;
• Being named as the South Shore’s only ‘Baby Friendly’ designated hospital, a program
sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund;
• 10th consecutive year on the Home Care Elite list;
• American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Outstanding Achievement Award;
• Home Health Quality Improvement Gold Medal;
• New York State Department of Health’s Perinatal Quality Collaborative Obstetrical
Improvement Quality Improvement Award;
• American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Target:
Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Quality Achievement Award;
Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), South Nassau®
Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and
3,000 employees. Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that
provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and
emergency services. In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, South Nassau provides emergency
and elective angioplasty, and is the only hospital on Long Island with the Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife®
radiosurgery technologies. South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of
Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and is an
accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program. In
addition, the hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval as a Top Performer on
Key Quality Measures, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care; and disease-specific
care for hip and knee replacement, wound care, heart failure and end-stage renal disease. For more information,
visit www.southnassau.org.
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