South Nassau Communities Hospital

Other program services: additional outpatient services offered by south nassau communities hospital are: wound care: family medicine: sports medicine and rehabilitation therapy; behavioral health services; outpatient dialysis; parent-child education; primary medical care; cardiac rehabilitation' weight & life management; home health care; cancer services; gamma knife services; breast/gyn health; other cardiovascular services; radiology services; women's imaging; sleep medicine; and family medicine at long beach. The hospital provided 211,000 services related to the other outpatient services in 2024. These services were provided to the members of the community on an elective. The hospital provides charity care and discounts to patients that are unable to a pay for these services. In 2024, the hospital provided charity care of approximately $5.6 million (charges) for other outpatient services.

Ambulatory surgery: south nassau ambulatory surgery service line consists of outpatient surgical, endoscopy, pain management and cardiac services. See details of the services that comprise ambulatory surgery below: outpatient surgeries: south nassau's ambulatory surgery unit (asu) features 10 semi-private pre-operative patient suites where the patient is admitted prior to surgery and 16 semi-private postoperative rooms where patients complete phase two of their recovery, receive pain medication and post-operative teaching prior to being discharged from the hospital. The asu post-operative unit is open 24 hours a day. The hospital performed 7,486 outpatient surgical procedures in 2024. South nassau communities hospital's endoscopy unit provides state-of-the-art patient care for both inpatients and outpatients requiring upper or lower gastrointestinal studies. The service offers e.r.c.p. (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) studies of the gall bladder, pancreas and bile ducts. Also offered are endoscopic ultrasound, which examines the walls and the surrounding structures of the gi system; gastroscopy and colonoscopy, a minimally invasive procedure to view the gastrointestinal system including the esophagus, stomach and colon; and liver biopsies. The endoscopy unit also performs ph and motility studies using the "bravo" capsule. The hospital performed 4,340 outpatient endoscopy procedures in 2024. Pain management: south nassau's pain management unit provides care to both inpatients and outpatients requiring interventional pain management procedures. The pain management anesthesiologists, who are assisted by highly skilled registered nurses, are trained in cutting-edge interventional pain management modalities. The hospital performed 621 outpatient pain management procedures in 2024. Cardiac services: cardiac catheterization laboratory: the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratories in the center for cardiovascular health use state-of-the-art digital imaging cameras for the highest possible resolution and image quality. This provides precise results for cardiac procedures while significantly reducing the patient's exposure to radiation. South nassau was approved by the department of health to perform elective angioplasty. This allows south nassau to perform diagnostic cardiac catheterizations as well as both elective and emergent coronary angioplasty procedures. The cardiac catheterization lab and the cardiac services admitting/recovery unit are staffed by specially trained registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants and experienced interventional cardiologists who rank among the best in the state. The hospital performed 1,539 outpatient catheterization procedures in 2024. Electrophysiology laboratory: the hospital's electrophysiology and arrhythmias lab specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening heart rhythm disorders. The electrophysiology lab uses state-of-the-art 3-d cardiac anatomic mapping which allows for the precise location of irregular heartbeats. The electrophysiology and arrhythmias lab team is composed of board-certified electrophysiologists together with specially trained physician assistants and registered nurses. The lab implants permanent pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators, biventricular devices and loop recorders and provides electrophysiology procedures such as table testing, cardiac ablations, cardioversions, transesophageal echocardiograms and diagnostic electrophysiology studies. Patients receiving permanent pacemakers or defibrillators have the device interrogations performed in the electrophysiology lab following the implantation and at routine intervals. The hospital performed 332 outpatient ep studies in 2024. Summary: ambulatory surgery services were provided to 18,676 members of the community on an elective basis. The hospital provided charity care of approximately $1.3 million (charges) for ambulatory patients served in 2024.

Emergency services: oceanside: the emergency room is operated on a full time basis (24 hours 365 days a week). Our emergency room is one of the busiest on the south shore of nassau county. The emergency room is this area's leading center of specialized emergency care, with a solid reputation for developing and implementing innovations in emergency health care services. The emergency room is staffed by a team of dedicated professionals, including board certified, residency-trained emergency medicine physicians (one of few hospitals in new york with such staffing), as well as nurses, nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants who have been specially-trained in emergency medical care. The emergency room is also a level ii trauma center, equipped with the advanced medical technology and skilled specialists required to perform emergency trauma procedures. It has also been designated as a stroke center by the new york state department of health because we offer the rapid assessment and advanced therapies and procedures that can make a difference forstroke patient. The hospital provides charity care and discounts to patients receiving emergency room services consistent with our policy. The hospital experienced 61,705 emergency room visits in 2024 of which 14,791 patients were admitted in 2024, the hospital provided charity care of approximately $2.5 million (charges) to individuals who received emergency services. Long beach: the free standing emergency department, which operates on a full time basis (24 hours a day, 365 days a year), is staffed with certified emergency nurses and physicians board certified in emergency medicine, and has the same features and diagnostic equipment as a traditional emergency department with the exception being that it is not located on the hospital's main campus. Any patients requiring continued hospital care or admission are transferred to the main campus via a south nassau ambulance. These transfers are paid for by the hospital. In 2023, the long beach emergency department experienced 11,426 visits, of which 1,010 patients were transferred to the hospital's main campus resulting in 734 admissions. The hospital provided charity care of approximately $271,000 (charges) to individuals who received emergency services.