Members of the list were selected for their accomplishments in leading healthcare and hospital organizations, including improvement of patient care, development of relationships between providers and facilitation of organizational growth.

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Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
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October 29, 2013
Dr. Linda Efferen Named to Prestigious List
of Women Hospital & Healthcare Leaders to Know
Oceanside, NY — For the fourth consecutive year, Becker's Hospital Review has named Linda Efferen,
MD, chief medical officer at South Nassau Communities Hospital, to its prestigious listing of the top "130
Women Hospital and Healthcare Leaders to Know" in the United States.
Members of the list were selected for their accomplishments in leading healthcare and hospital
organizations, including improvement of patient care, development of relationships between providers and
facilitation of organizational growth. Members do not and cannot pay to be included on the list. Each featured
woman was lauded by her colleagues for contributing significant value to the healthcare industry.
To create the list, the editorial team at Becker's Hospital Review accepted nominations for the most
influential women in healthcare through its website and weekly online newsletters. After several months of
collecting nominations and researching the background of each nominee, the editorial team narrowed the
contenders to a list of 130 top women leaders. The publication repeats this process annually to ensure an up-todate compendium. Becker's Hospital Review is a Chicago-based publication focusing on hospital and
healthcare news and business advice. The primary audience for the publication is hospital executives and
healthcare industry leaders.
As South Nassau’s chief medical officer, Dr. Efferen (a resident of South Huntington) is responsible for
facilitating medical staff interactions with hospital administration and the governing board and for assuring the
effective and efficient delivery of quality medical care consistent with the hospital’s mission. She also assists
with strategic planning and execution, as well as the implementation of disease management programs, and
monitors the effectiveness of management practices and productivity indicators.
Dr. Efferen is board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary
medicine and internal medicine. She was named to Becker’s Hospital Review "List of 100 Chief Medical
Officers to Know", Consumers Research Council of America’s Guide to America’s Top Physicians, Castle
Connolly’s Top Doctors: New York Metro Area Guide (for seven years), and Best Doctors’ Best Doctors in
America. She has received a host of awards/honors, including a spot in the 2010 class of Long Island Business
News’ Long Island’s Top 50 Business Women. Clinical professor of medicine at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ

2. School of Medicine, Dr. Efferen is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the New
York Academy of Science, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Critical Care
Physicians, American College of Medical Quality, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 435 beds, more than
1,000 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® Perfexion 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 recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American
Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.
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