The South Nassau Emergency Department at Long Beach treated 906 patients in its first month of operation from August 10th to September 10th, averaging approximately 30 patients per day. This patient volume is triple what the facility saw as an Urgent Care Center operating 12 hours per day. The majority (166) of patients arrived via ambulance and 20 patients required admission to the hospital. The new emergency department has provided a wide range of critical care to the community.

1. For Immediate Release September 22, 2015
Contact: Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
(516) 377-5370
Patient Visits Triple in First Month for South Nassau’s
Long Beach Emergency Department
--Vast Majority of Patients Are Treated and Released Without Leaving
the Barrier Island
Oceanside, NY — During its first month of service to the residents of Long Beach and surrounding
communities, South Nassau Communities Hospital Emergency Department at Long Beach treated a total of 906
patients for an average of approximately 30 patients a day.
The total number of patients treated is for the time period beginning August 10 at 9AM – when the
Emergency Department at Long Beach first opened its doors to restore around-the-clock emergency medical
care to the residents of Long Beach and the barrier island – thru September 10.
Of the 906 residents treated at the Long Beach facility, 166 arrived via the 9-1-1 Emergency Medical
System. A total of 20 residents were treated, stabilized, discharged and transported via on-site ambulance
services to be admitted to South Nassau Communities Hospital for further inpatient medical care. Another four
residents were treated, stabilized, discharged and transported via ambulance to South Nassau, but only to
receive additional medical care in the hospital’s Oceanside emergency department.
“The patient volume we are seeing initially – during the first month of operation – is encouraging,” said
Richard J. Murphy, South Nassau’s President & CEO. “The numbers indicate that the facility has gained quick
acceptance among residents, visitors and within the EMS community. We are hopeful this trend will continue.”
South Nassau invested $5 million in the Long Beach site to open an Urgent Care Center in July of 2014
and then put in an additional $8 million in 2015 to upgrade it to a 9-1-1 receiving Emergency Department. As
an Urgent Care Center operating 12 hours per day, the facility treated about 10 patients a day. That volume has
tripled since the facility reopened Aug. 10 as Long Island’s only free-standing Emergency Department.
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2. The Long Beach Emergency Department has treated a wide range of injuries and illnesses, including
critical care of collapsed lungs and two multiple cardiac arrest cases.
The South Nassau Emergency Department at Long Beach is located at 325 E. Bay Drive, adjacent to the
Komanoff Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. The facility is equipped with leading-edge emergency
medical technology and features an experienced staff of board-certified emergency medicine physicians as well
as registered nurses with advanced training in emergency medicine.
The facility has six private treatment rooms, including an observation unit with three beds where
patients can be held for up to 23 hours, a special room for infectious disease cases, a medical laboratory, a triage
area, a behavioral treatment area and a decontamination room. It also features a trauma room and advanced
medical imaging department that includes an X-ray machine and a 64-slice CT scanner, the only operational CT
scanner of any type in Long Beach and on the barrier island. The 6,300-square-foot facility has the capability to
surge to meet increases in volume if needed.
Patients treated and stabilized at the Long Beach ED who require hospital admission or advanced levels
of treatment are transferred by on-site ambulance service to South Nassau or the appropriate hospital. South
Nassau, which services some 900,000 residents of the South Shore, from Queens to Suffolk County, is a Level
II trauma center and advanced cardiac center.
South Nassau® Communities Hospital is a recipient of the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Quality Achievement Award
as well as 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 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. 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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