A multitude of community leaders, elected officials and Mount Sinai Health System staff and Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital met to celebrate the inauguration of the new Phennessy Family Emergency Department, infrastructure that had a budget of 50 million dollars. This event was held on May 1 at the Mount Sinai South Nassau Oceanside Campus.
The renewed emergency department is named after Joseph Fennessy, benefactor of the hospital for many years and president of the Board of Directors of the Hospital when the renewal was authorized. Mr. Fennessy was accompanied by members of his family to celebrate this special occasion.
It should be noted that the modern and expanded “Fennessy Family Emergency Department” doubles its previous size, reaching that of an American football field.
The new emergency department is the cornerstone of the new Pavilion of Family Family, four -story and 9300 square meters, which will include 9 new operating rooms and 40 new intensive care rooms, whose inauguration is scheduled for the end of this spring.
«Fennessy Family Emergency Department» will be able to serve approximately 80,000 patients a year. It has centralized nursing stations for direct supervision of patient rooms, bedroom triage and a avant -garde traumatology unit with a contiguous radiology room.
The new entry and triage area of the Emergency Department of the Fennessy family is the culmination of a five -year renewal and $ 50 million. More than $ 10 million of the cost of renewal were financed with community donations during a five -year capital fundraising campaign.
The Feil Family pavilion was partly financed with FEMA funds after Hurricane Sandy and is designed to improve medical care on the southern coast. It is part of an effort to strengthen the resilience of the hospital campus in Oceanside in case of an event similar to Sandy.
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“The Mount Sinai South Nassau provides vital emergency care to the communities of the sixth district, and the opening of the Fenness and Family Emergency Department guarantees that exemplary services will continue to be offered at critical moments,” said the substitute leader of the legislative minority of Nassau County, Debra Mulé, present at the opening ceremony.
“Congratulations to all those who contributed to reach this important milestone!”
In the inaugural event of the “Fennessy Family Emergency Department”, Adhi Sharma, MD, president of Mount Sinai South Nassau participated; Margaret Pastuszko, President and Operations Director of Mount Sinai Health System; Anthony Cancellieri, co -president of the Community Advisory Board of Mount Sinai South Nassau; and Joseph Fennessy (former president of the board of directors of Mount Sinai South Nassau for a long time).
It should be noted that Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital has been designated as Magnet® Hospital by the American Center for Nursing Accreditation (ANCC) for its excellent nursing care.
It is one of the largest hospitals in the region, with 455 beds, more than 900 doctors and 3500 employees. Located in Oceanside, New York, it is a non -profit teaching hospital for intensive care that provides avant -garde care in cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services.
The only trauma center on the southern coast of Nassau County also operates, in addition to the only independent emergency department of Long Island, which receives 911 in Long Beach.
In addition to its broad specialties centers for outpatients, Mount Sinai South Nassau offers emergency and elective angioplasties, and offers radiocirugia technologies Novalis Tx ™ and Gamma Knife®.
Mount Sinai South Nassau is also appointed as the Center for Cerebrovascular Accidents by the New York State Health Department and as a community integral cancer center by the American Surgeon College; It is a center accredited by the Association of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the quality improvement program; And it is a center of excellence in antimicrobial administration of the Society of Infectious Diseases of America.
For more information, you can visit www.mountsinai.org/southnassau .
