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Coat Drive for the Patients, Back to School Program and support to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Carla Vultaggio, RN, Secretary of NUMC Kiwanis, and Linda Walsh, CTRS, President of NUMC Kiwanis, were present to accept the honor. LIJ Medical Center's Emergency Department (ED) has established a new process with encouraging results. The hospital has re - duced its door-to-room time by 50 percent to 24 minutes and its door-to-provider time by 28 percent at 52 minutes. LIJ's Emergency Department treated more than 80,000 adult patients in 2013 — one of the busiest emergency rooms in the New York City and on Long Island. Thanks to the support of benefactors William and Phyllis Mack, the ED doubled in size. NuHealth System announced that the Nassau University Medical Center's dialysis program has been recognized as a 5 Diamond Patient Safety Facility for the second year in a row by the IPRO End-Stage Renal Disease Network of New York. IPRO is a national organization that provides a full spectrum of healthcare assess - ment and improvement services to foster a more efficient use of resources and enhance quality to achieve better outcomes. End-stage renal disease is a failure of the kidneys to function. Hemodialysis is a treatment that to some degree replaces the role of the kidneys. It removes toxins and excess fluid from the blood. NUMC received five diamonds out of five diamonds for participat - ing in the patient safety initiative. Staff successfully completed three modules to maintain NUMC Dialysis' 5 Diamond status, which includes patient safety principles, patient healthcare lit - eracy and hand hygiene modules. The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Westchester County Chapter announced a two-year partnership to collaborate on community outreach and educational programs to improve the health outcomes of pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). Clinicians from the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at CHAM will present at monthly parent meetings facilitated by JDRF. The meetings cover a variety of topics relat - ing to the care of children with T1D, such as nutrition, medication and devices, and psychosocial issues. Another element of the new partnership is the School Nurse Education Program. Nurse Practitioners from CHAM will lead educational programs and provide practical, hands-on guidance to school nurses through - out the 33 school districts in Westchester. The full-day programs provide in-depth training on how to check blood sugar levels, operate pump devices and manage care for children with diabetes in the school environment. Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip is focused on aggressively treating heart disease through the new St. Francis Open Heart Surgery Program at Good Samaritan Hospital. This unique pro - gram brings the world-class cardiovascular surgical care for which St. Francis is known to residents of Suffolk County by relocating an entire clinical team from St. Francis to Good Samaritan. St. Francis was once again ranked first on Long Island for 2013-2014 and eighth in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report. Good Samaritan has earned numerous regional honors including being ranked among the top Long Island hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 2013–2014. Good Samaritan and St. Francis are Magnet-designated hospitals, among just 7 percent of U.S. hospi - tals to have earned this recognition for nursing excellence. ■ (L-R) Alfonso Sterlacci, the first patient in the St. Francis Open Heart Surgery Program at Good Samaritan, with his cardiothoracic surgeon Christopher La Mendola, MD, Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of the St. Francis Hospital Open Heart Surgery program at Good Samaritan Carla Vultaggio, Secretary of NUMC Kiwanis and Linda Walsh, CTRS, President of NUMC Kiwanis accepts the Distinguished Club award. +++++++++++++++++++ + +++ + +++ +++++++++++++++++++ LOCAL NEWS 3 0 | Long Island MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M 3 0 | Long Island MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M

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