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One Healthy Way at Merrick Road in Oceanside. Call 877-SOUTH-NASSAU or visit southnassau.org. (From left to right) Athan Smyrlis, MD — Interventional Cardiologist; Jason Freeman, MD, FACC, FSCAI — Director, Interventional Cardiology and Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories; Asif Rehman, MD, FACC, FSCAI — Associate Director, Interventional Cardiology; Lawrence Kanner, MD, FACC, FHRS — Chief, Division of Cardiology and Director, Electrophysiology/Arrhythmia Services The American Heart Association recognizes this hospital for achieving 85% or higher compliance with all Get With The Guidelines ® — Heart Failure Achievement Measures and 75% or higher compliance with four or more Get With The Guidelines ® — Heart Failure Quality Measures for two or more consecutive years and for documentation of all three Target:Heart Failure SM care components for 50% or more of eligible patients with heart failure discharged from the hospital to improve quality of patient care and outcomes. South Nassau's Center for Cardiovascular Health is home to some of the area's most respected interventional cardiovascular experts. In our state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization lab, our average door-to-treatment time for heart attacks is 27.5 minutes faster than the national benchmark. Our cardiac program is also consistently recognized for excellence and has earned The Joint Commission's Disease-Specifi c Certifi cation in Heart Failure, and we also hold the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines ® — Heart Failure Gold Plus Achievement Award. Most procedures are performed on an ambulatory basis, with patients referred back to you and/or their cardiologist for follow-up care. With leading-edge services and procedures, there's no doubt that South Nassau is where your patient's heart should be. South Nassau — Your partners in interventional heart care

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