South Nassau is one of 1,043 hospitals in the U.S. to earn the distinction of Top Performer on Key Quality Measures.

1. For Immediate Release February 4, 2016
Contact: Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
(516) 377-5370
Joint Commission Names South Nassau
“Top Performer on Key Quality Measures®”
Oceanside, NY… The Joint Commission has named South Nassau Communities Hospital a Top
Performer on Key Quality Measures® for the third consecutive year.
South Nassau earned the award for its exemplary use of evidence-based clinical processes that are
shown to improve care for the following conditions and services: heart attack; heart failure; pneumonia;
surgery; children's asthma; inpatient psychiatric care; venous thromboembolism; stroke; perinatal care; and
immunizations.
“Our organization is steadfast in its commitment to achieve the highest standards in patient safety
and quality,” said Richard J. Murphy, South Nassau’s president and CEO. “Fulfilling this commitment
ensures that the patients and communities we serve have access to high-quality, patient-centered healthcare
services that they deserve.”
South Nassau is one of 1,043 hospitals in the U.S. to earn the distinction of Top Performer on Key
Quality Measures. The ratings are based on an aggregation of accountability measures data reported to The
Joint Commission during the 2014 calendar year. The list of Top Performer organizations represents 31.5
percent of all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting accountability measure performance data for
2014.
The Joint Commission Top Performer honor joins a multitude of others South Nassau has earned for
outstanding quality in 2015, including:
 ‘A’ for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group;
 American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Outstanding Achievement Award;
 Home Health Quality Improvement Gold Medal
 Named to Home Care Elite list 10th
consecutive year;
 New York State Department of Health’s Perinatal Quality Collaborative Obstetrical Improvement
Quality Improvement Award;
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2.  American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®–Target:
Stroke Gold-Plus Honor Roll-Elite Quality Achievement Award;
 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation Get With The
Guidelines®–Heart Failure Silver-Plus Quality Achievement Award.
To earn Top Performer on Key Quality Measures, South Nassau:
• achieved a cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability
measures;
• achieved a performance of 95 percent or above on each and every on each and every
qualifying accountability measure reported;
• and had at least one core measure set that was a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and
(within that measure set) all applicable individual accountability measures had to have a
performance rate of 95 percent or above.
Each accountability measure represents an evidence-based practice – for example, giving aspirin at
arrival for heart attack patients, giving antibiotics one hour before surgery, and providing a home
management plan of care for children with asthma.
Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), South
Nassau® Communities Hospital 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.
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