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The Knapp Family Foundation has supported life-changing initiatives at the Feinstein Institute and Northwell Health's Lenox Hill Hospital since 2012. One year later, the Foundation began sup - porting novel research investigations for disease treatments that otherwise would not be funded — including Type 1 diabetes. The Feinstein Institute will conduct preclinical studies that will target both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes during development of the new technology. Neural decoding and data analytics methods will be used to deepen the understanding of the nervous system's role in glucose regulation. Stony Brook University welcomed Southampton Hospital, hereafter known as Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, as a member of the Stony Brook Medicine health system, announced Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, President, and Ken Kaushansky, MD, Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine. As such, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital will now provide care under Stony Brook University Hospital's New York state operating license. In the time that it has taken to finalize the agreement, the two hospitals have successfully collaborated on bringing new ser vices to the community, the most critical of which is the new cardiac catheterization laborator y, part of the Audrey and Martin Gruss Heart & Stroke Center, which will be the first on Long Island to open east of Route 112, and where clinical operations are scheduled to begin on Sept. 5. Also coming in late 2018 is the new Phillips Family Cancer Center, a facility that promises to provide top-level cancer care. More than 125 golf - ers and additional supporters helped raise a record total of over $260,000 at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) Auxiliar y's 39th Annual Golf Outing held on July 10, 2017, at the North Shore Countr y Club. Funds raised benefit the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The event honored Robert Waldbaum, MD, and Steven A. Klar. Dr. Waldbaum ser ves as a professor of urology at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Urology, Vice President of Physician Relations, and Director of outpatient clinics at North Shore University Hospital. Mr. Klar is President of the Klar Organization and Founder of the Klar Family Leadership Development and Innovation Management Program at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. Both guests of honor have demonstrated significant support and generosity toward Northwell Health. For the 11th consecutive year, St. Francis, The Heart Center, has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as among the Best Hospitals in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery. The Catholic Health Services (CHS) hospital was ranked the best hospital on Long Island for the fifth year in a row, coming in at fifth in New York State and sixth in the New York metro area. The hospital was also ranked for 2017–2018 among the best in the country for gastroenterology and GI surgery, receiving the only national recognition in adult specialties for any hospital on Long Island, while CHS's Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center was rated high performing for two procedures/condi - tions: colon cancer surgery and heart failure. The Board of Directors of John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, New York, have entered into a letter of intent to join Northwell Health as part of a long-term strategy to ensure advanced healthcare for Mather's communities and the future growth of the hospital. Based on the unprecedented changes occurring in the health - care industr y, the Mather Board of Directors has determined that joining Northwell Health is in the best interest of the communities it ser ves, its medical staff and employees. Over the next few months, Mather and Northwell Health will work together in good faith to develop a final agreement, which will require approval from both the Mather and Northwell boards of directors as well as governmental regulatory authorities. If the process is suc - cessful, the approvals could take place by the end of 2017. Good Samaritan Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines® –Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll. The award recognizes the hospital's commit- ment and success ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, re- search-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. n NSUH Auxiliary presents a generous gift to North Shore University Hospital. Pictured from left to right: Alessandro Bellucci, MD, Executive Director, North Shore University Hospital; John Bonanno, Golf Committee Chair, North Shore University Hospital Auxiliary; Lori Ballen, President, North Shore University Hospital Auxiliary; Rick Schwartz, Treasurer, North Shore University Hospital Auxiliary. 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

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