Since the Emergency Department Expansion Campaign began in 2015, the hospital's supporters have donated $3,376,910, pledged an additional $364,731 and secured grants of $500,000.

1. For Immediate Release March 30, 2016
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Supporters Donate More than $4.2 Million
toward South Nassau’s Emergency Department Expansion Campaign
Oceanside, NY – Thanks to the generous support of local donors, South Nassau
Communities Hospital is nearing the halfway point toward its goal of raising $10 million to help
fund the expansion and redesign of the hospital’s Oceanside Emergency Department.
Since the Emergency Department Expansion Campaign began in 2015, the hospital’s
supporters have donated $3,376,910, pledged an additional $364,731 and secured grants of
$500,000. The total of $4,241,641 in donations will go toward the $57 million cost of expanding
the Emergency Department, nearly doubling its size to meet growing demand along the South
Shore of Nassau County.
Last year along, business leaders and local supporters donated a total of $1,124,568.46
toward the Emergency Department campaign and other planned renovations. The 2015 gifts
include a $512,000 donation from The Louis Feil Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, who requested
that the funds go toward renovating two operating room suites at the hospital’s Oceanside
campus.
The Feil family has donated $4.012 million over the past four years in support of South
Nassau’s healthcare mission. The Feil family made generous gifts to the hospital’s Center of
Cardiovascular Health in 2008 as well as a substantial gift to the cancer center in 2009.
Other major donors include: Mrs. Adele Folz, matriarch of the former Folz family
business, Folz Vending Co.; the South Nassau Auxiliary; Mr. Joseph Fennessy, chair of South
Nassau’s board of directors, who is a retired former partner and chief operating officer of the
Northeast region, Deloitte & Touche LLP; Steven and Terri Gold; Mr. Mark Fisher, president
and founder of MBF Clearing Corp.; Mr. Marc Kemp & Mr. Steven Kaufman, Basser &
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2. Kaufman Real Estate, and Mr. Joel Schneider, SNCH board member and chair of the ED
Campaign, president and founder of Joel Schneider Construction.
"We are very grateful for the continued support we receive from our generous
benefactors who believe in our mission to provide quality health care to all the communities
along the South Shore,” said Richard J. Murphy, South Nassau’s President and CEO. “I am
joined by South Nassau’s board of directors and medical staff in extending our deep appreciation
to each benefactor for their generosity and support. Our Emergency Department is really the
front door to our hospital and this much needed renovation is already underway. It is happening,
thanks to the support we have received.”
South Nassau’s 35-bed Emergency Department is the only Level II Trauma and Regional
Stroke Center on the South Shore of Nassau County. The department currently sees some 65,000
patients a year, but was designed to handle just 35,000 annually. The hospital is the only one on
Long Island to earn an “A” for patient safety, be named a Top Performer by the Joint
Commission, win top honors for cancer care and be designated a Magnet hospital for superior
nursing care.
“South Nassau is becoming the hospital of choice for South Shore residents,” said Mr.
Schneider, the South Nassau board member who chairs the expansion campaign. “More
supporters are realizing that a strong South Nassau is in their own best interests as it is likely the
hospital they will depend upon in an emergency.”
The Emergency Department expansion project will increase the Department’s square
footage from 16,000 to 30,000 square feet, nearly doubling its size and allowing staff to treat in
excess of 70,000 patient visits each year. The project calls for a larger waiting area and
dedicated treatment spaces for behavioral health, geriatric and pediatric emergencies. The
redesign also will allow for better line of sight within the Emergency Department to assist
physicians and staff manage patient needs. To learn more or make a donation please visit
www.southnassaulifesaver.org.
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. The Oceanside 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® radiosurgery
technologies. South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of

3. 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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