John D. Cameron, Jr., P.E., founder and managing partner of Cameron Engineering & Associates in Woodbury, NY, was the honoree of the outing, which was held at both the Inwood Country Club and The Seawane Club on Monday, June 15.

1. News From:
For Immediate Release June 17, 2015
Contact: Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
(516) 377-5370
South Nassau Golf Outing Raises Record $329,005 in
Support of Emergency Department Expansion
Brightwater Resident Sinks Hole-in-One for 2-Year Lease on an Audi
Oceanside, NY – Supporters of South Nassau Communities Hospital raised a record gross total of
$329,000 toward the expansion of the hospital’s Emergency Department at its 31st
Annual Golf Outing, held
Monday on two courses, breaking all previous fundraising records for this event by more than 16 percent.
John D. Cameron, Jr., P.E., founder and managing partner of Cameron Engineering & Associates in
Woodbury, NY, was the honoree of the outing, which was held at both the Inwood Country Club and The
Seawane Club on Monday, June 15.
Aside from the record-setting money raised, the outing will also be remembered by Brightwater, NY,
resident Tim Haggerty for the hole-in-one he recorded on the par 3 5th
hole at The Seawane Club that won him a
two-year lease on an Audi courtesy of Lynbrook Audi. This is the second consecutive year that South Nassau’s
golf outing has been host to a hole-in-one.
The money raised by the outing will support South Nassau’s “Emergency Department Expansion
Campaign.” The campaign is a five-year, $10 million fundraising initiative to help pay for a $60 million
renovation of the Oceanside Emergency Department, serving all residents of the South Shore from Queens to
Suffolk. The expansion project will increase the Emergency Department’s square footage from 16,000 to 30,000
square feet, increasing its overall size by 87% and giving it the necessary room to accommodate a projected
70,000 patient visits each year as well as establishing dedicated areas for behavioral health and pediatric
emergencies. The Emergency Department currently sees some 65,000 patients a year but was designed to handle
35,000 annually.
“John Cameron has been a long-time friend of South Nassau and his firm has partnered with the hospital
on several important projects,” said South Nassau’s president and CEO, Richard J. Murphy. “We are grateful he
agreed to be our honoree and help us raise funds for the Emergency Department expansion campaign.”

2. Under Mr. Cameron’s leadership, Cameron Engineering has grown into being one of the region’s premier
engineering and planning firms, having received local, state, and national awards for many of its projects.
Cameron Engineering serves the public and private sectors alike in the New York Metropolitan area and beyond
and has partnered with South Nassau on many of its major projects including the North Addition, Outpatient
Dialysis Center rebuild, and most recently the Long Beach Urgent Care Center.
Mr. Cameron (a resident of Rockville Centre, NY) is a licensed professional engineer, marine engineer
and a U.S. patent holder. His professional experience includes heavy construction, government, facility
operations, consulting engineering, academia, entrepreneurship and business ownership. Mr. Cameron is also the
recipient of many personal awards and has been a frequent contributor to the news media, including television,
radio and print. He and his wife reside in Rockville Centre as do their two married children and grandchildren.
In addition to the hole-in-one, the outing also presented awards for the following categories:
Men’s Lowest Score – Mike Ricciardi – 72 at The Seawane Club, and Lou D’Agostino – 78 at Inwood Country
Club; Women’s Lowest Score – Jennifer Haggerty – 79 at The Seawane Club, and Kathy Masiulis – 89 at
Inwood Country Club; Foursome Lowest Score – Wes Price, Jim Kelley, Steve Puckett, Matt Curtin – 57 at
The Seawane Club, and Rick Kuplicki, Dan Kuplicki, Myles Foley, Max Gartman – 74 at Inwood Country Club.
The afternoon of golf was followed by an evening of fine dining, camaraderie, and fun at the Seawane Club.
South Nassau’s Emergency Services Department is the busiest community hospital emergency room in
Nassau County, realizing an 8.5 percent increase in patient visits in 2013. Praised for its efficiency and
responsiveness to the needs of patients, the department’s staff includes board-certified, residency-trained
emergency medicine physicians as well as nurses and physicians' assistants who have been specially-trained in
emergency medical care.
The department is a New York State Department of Health regional Stroke Center and is southern
Nassau County’s only Trauma Level II Center. The department has over 35 large independent treatment bays,
specialty treatment areas as well as its own dedicated Computerized Radiology Suite for rapid access for testing
and results.
South Nassau is the only hospital on Long Island to win four major awards for quality in recent months,
including for women’s services, nursing excellence, and top rankings from U.S. News & World Report and from
the Joint Commission. In addition, it is one of just 559 hospitals in the country to be awarded the American
Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite
Quality Achievement Award, and it is also a recipient of the American Heart Association/American College of
Cardiology Foundation Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Silver-Plus 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

3. 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
joint replacement, wound care and end-stage renal disease. For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.
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