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Stony Brook Medicine opened a new, multispecialty center in Commack called Advanced Specialty Care, offering the residents of Long Island more choices and flexibility when looking for medi - cal care. The center offers 30 medical specialties designed to meet the majority of people's medical needs. Stony Brook Medicine occupies more than 120,000 square feet of space in the state-of-the-art ambulator y care facility, allowing room for expansion as additional ser vices are added. There is also a complete imaging center on site to provide X-rays, mammogra - phy, ultrasounds, bone densitometr y, CT scans and MRIs. Our Lady of Consolation Nursing & Rehabilitative Care Center, a member of Catholic Health Ser vices (CHS), has been named one of New York's Top-Performing Nursing Homes by the New York State (NYS) Department of Health. It is one of just two facilities in Suffolk County to be awarded this ranking, having achieved the highest quintile of the NYS Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI) for the last three years. The NYS NHQI is an annual quality and performance evaluation project designed to improve care for residents in Medicaid-certified nursing facilities across the state. Points are awarded for quality and performance measures, combined into an overall score for each entity and then compared against other facilities across the state. Our Lady of Consolation was ranked in the top NHQI quintile for three consecutive years: 2014, 2015 and 2016. In addition, Our Lady of Consolation has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as among the Best Nursing Homes in the nation (2016–2017). In 2016, the West Islip facility was awarded an overall rating of five stars from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser vices (CMS) and, along with CHS' St. Catherine of Siena Nursing & Rehabilitation Care Center and Good Samaritan Nursing Home, earned five stars from CMS for quality measures. The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation will under write a $95,000, patient-centric position at Huntington Hospital with the goal of guiding cancer patients through the complexities of the healthcare system, from making appointments to ensuring patients comply with care recommendations to get the best possible clini - cal outcome. Caroline Monti Saladino, President of the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation, said she committed to the cancer patient navigator post after seeing it successfully implemented elsewhere. Joseph and Tita Monti established the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation after their son died of myeloblastic leu - kemia at age 16 in 1972. Now, under the leadership of Caroline Monti Saladino — Joseph and Tita's daughter and Don's sister — the Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation has donated and aided Northwell Health in a variety of ways through the decades, including previous donations to the Huntington Hospital Don Monti cancer unit. The foundation also supports the Don Monti Division of Oncology Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) in Manhasset as well as Don Monti Cancer Centers at NSUH, Plainview and Glen Cove hospitals; a nurse navigator for liver cancer patients at NSUH; and other programs and events for cancer patients. Southampton Hospital has announced that it has received approval from the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to create a cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology laborator y at its Audrey and Martin Gruss Heart & Stroke Center. When completed, the ser vices will provide East End residents and visitors with life - saving diagnostics and treatment here, in their community. Access to cardiac catheteriza- tion without the need for transfer by ambulance to another facil - ity can mean the difference between life and death. The car - diac cath- eterization laborator y will be an adult PCI-capable laborator y. The program will be operated under the clinical oversight of Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH), and policies and procedures cur - rently in place at SBUH for its cardiac catheterization and EP ser vices will be incorporated into the operation of the laborator y at Southampton Hospital. ■ L–R: Danielle Saladino Faria; Gerard Brogan Jr., MD; Arthur Saladino; Caroline Monti Saladino; Lyndsay Burkhart, RN; Marie Roggenkamp, RN; Jessica Shremshock, RN Stony Brook Medicine Center has opened in Commack, expanding health care for Long Islanders. 2 9 M D N E W S .C O M /// M D N E W S L O N G I S L A N D ■ 2 017