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What's New at Area Hospitals North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. It offers a multidisciplinary approach that brings together expert resources to provide a better experience for patients and a more cohesive environment for clinicians. The specialties include: University The awards and honors presented to South Nassau Communities Hospital are a result of its commitment to providing the communities and patients it serves with the latest advancements in medical technology, such as the Varian Novalis Tx, which uses precisely shaped and targeted radiation beams to treat tumors of the prostate, brain, spine, lung and liver. South Nassau Communities Hospital is the inaugural recipient of the Long Island Business News Healthcare Heroes Hospital Award. The award is the fifth significant media honor that the hospital received in 2011. Previously, South Nassau Communities Hospital was voted the Best Hospital on Long Island by readers of The Long Island Press; ranked No. 33 in the U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals metro area rankings; and named to the Becker's Hospital Review 2011 lists of the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" in the United States and "60 Hospitals with Great Orthopedic Programs." Additional awards earned by South Nassau in 2011 include: • Get With The Guidelines 2011 Gold Performance Achievement Award for coronary artery disease • Get With The Guidelines 2011 Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award • HomeCare Elite top home health care provider The North Shore-LIJ Health System has announced the opening of a single desti- nation for orthopedic, neuroscience and imaging services at 611 Northern Boulevard in Great Neck. The state-of-the-art facil- ity gives patients convenient access to the vast resources and services offered by the North Shore-LIJ Health System, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the Hofstra 30 | Long Island MD NEWS ■ MDNEWS.COM Orthopaedic Associates, a division of North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) and LIJ Medical Center, the premier provider of ortho- pedic care in the region. The North Shore-LIJ Health System's Cushing Neuroscience Institute (CNI), offers access to an entire team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuropsychologists, nurses and nurse practitioners. The North Shore-LIJ Imaging at Great Neck, provides patients with cutting-edge, low-dose digital technology and equipment. grateful and proud to have the support of LI Community Foundation to help us confront a very serious issue among our young people," Parrish Williams says. In presenting the $50,000 grant to the NuHealth Foundation, Okorn says, "We are very proud to support this initiative. It is a wonderful opportunity for the LI Community Foundation to help a community in need." Winthrop-University Hospital has an- nounced that HealthGrades has named it a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence for the fourth consecutive year. This presti- gious distinction places Winthrop-University Hospital among the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for clinical performance. The "HealthGrades Hospital Quality and Pictured (L–R): David Fagan, M.D., acting Chair, NuHealth Pediatrics; Marc Jacobson, M.D., Director, Lipid Disorders, NuHealth Pediatrics; Dr. Robert Tucker, principal, Roosevelt Middle School; Deidra Parrish Williams, Executive Director, NuHealth Foundation; and David Okorn, Executive Director, Long Island Community Foundation Joined by Roosevelt school district officials, Parent Teacher Association leaders, local elected officials and Roosevelt community representatives, David Okorn, Executive Director of the Long Island (LI) Community Foundation, presented Deidra Parrish Williams, Executive Director of the NuHealth Foundation, a $50,000 grant to help support a childhood obesity initiative for middle school students in the Roosevelt Union Free School District. "As a safety net health system, NuHealth has an obligation to care for our most at-risk communities, and that means being responsive to their changing needs. We are Clinical Excellence" study identifies hospitals with the best overall clinical performance across 26 medical diagnoses and procedures. HealthGrades' analysis is based on approxi- mately 40 million Medicare discharges. The HealthGrades study found that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence (top 5% in the nation), such as Winthrop- University Hospital, outperform other hospi- tals across all of the 17 mortality cohorts and six of nine complication cohorts studied from 2008 through 2010. In fact, if all hospitals per- formed at the level of Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence, 165,704 Medicare lives could potentially have been saved and 6,800 Medicare in-hospital complications could potentially have been avoided. ■ ADVERTISERS' INDEX Keurig ............................................................23 Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP .................. 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