The Fair Media Council is pleased to announce South Nassau Communities Hospital, located in Oceanside, N.Y., is the latest organization to join FMC.
South Nassau® Communities Hospital is the only hospital on Long Island to win four major awards for quality in
recent months, including designation as a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), for women’s healthcare services and top rankings from U.S. News & World Report and from the Joint Commission. In addition, it is a recipient of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Quality Achievement Award as well as the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Silver-Plus Quality Achievement Award.
“We welcome South Nassau Communities Hospital, and look forward to working with them closely throughout the year. Organizations that join FMC do so because they have a strong commitment to the community and understand that quality news coverage is vital to the health and well being of the community,” said Jaci Clement, FMC CEO.
“The Fair Media Council provides an important forum for the public and local organizations to interact with the media on issues that are of concern to all of Long Island,” said Joe Calderone, senior vice president of communications & development at South Nassau Communities Hospital. “We look forward to working with the council leadership, its members and the media to exchange ideas and information that will result in more informed coverage of the complex health care issues impacting all of us.”
South Nassau is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,000 employees. Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services. In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and is the only hospital on Long Island with the Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program. In addition, the hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care; and disease-specific care for hip and joint replacement, wound care and end-stage renal disease. For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.
The Fair Media Council is one of the oldest and most successful media watchdog organizations in the country. FMC creates opportunities for media and community to engage in open dialogue, to ensure local news reflects the needs and wants of the community. Creating a media savvy public is as much a priority as keeping the media responsive and responsible to the public. To join the more than 200 organizations that are members of the Fair Media Council, please visit www.fairmediacouncil.org/membership.
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