Mobile Urgent Care Unit Will Serve Residents While Construction of Off-Campus Emergency

South Nassau Communities Hospital is taking this action so that there will be no disruption of residents’ access of hospital-quality urgent medical care while expediting a $5 million expansion and upgrade of the center to a 24/7 OCHBED
By: South Nassau Communities Hospital
 
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. - April 10, 2015 - PRLog -- When it opens its doors to serve the community on Thursday, April 9 at 9AM, South Nassau Urgent Care at Long Beach will look different from the outside.

         That’s because after it closes for business the evening of April 8, it will be moved into a temporary mobile urgent medical care unit located at the same street address, 325 East Bay Dr. in Long Beach where it has been operating since first  opening July 1, 2014.

         South Nassau Communities Hospital is taking this action so that there will be no disruption of residents’ access of hospital-quality urgent medical care while expediting a $5 million expansion and upgrade of the center to a 24/7 off-campus, hospital-based emergency services department.

         “We will have the same level of highly trained medical staff on hand in the new mobile unit as we did in the Urgent Care Center,” said Joshua Kugler, M.D., FACEP, FAAEM, chair of the department of emergency medicine at South Nassau, “and this temporary move will allow for construction to begin so we can deliver an even more advanced level of service come July 1, when the South Nassau Emergency Department at Long Beach is scheduled to begin operations.”

         The new mobile urgent care unit will have six treatment areas plus X-ray capability and will be staffed by nurses and physicians trained in emergency medicine.

         Through an agreement with Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) South Nassau is leasing the mobile unit while the upgrade of the urgent care center is being made. South Nassau will pay HUMC about $450,000 for use of the unit during that time.

         Since opening its doors to serve the Long Beach community, more than 2,400 patients have been treated at the South Nassau Urgent Care Center.  The center provides hospital grade treatment and triage by board-certified emergency service trained physicians for a wide array of urgent medical conditions as well as ambulatory care with subspecialty backup supported through an integrated information technology system connecting the center to South Nassau’s main campus in Oceanside.  Care is provided on a walk-in basis, with no appointments required, 9AM-9PM Monday-Friday, and 10AM-8PM  Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Patients who are assessed as in need of further emergency care or hospitalization are transported to South Nassau or the appropriate hospital via on-site ambulance services.

         The Urgent Care Center combines with the Family Medicine Center at Long Beach to provide residents of Long Beach and surrounding communities a continuum of hospital-grade urgent care and family medicine.  Since its separate opening in May of 2014, the Family Medicine Center at Long Beach has totaled 2,400 patient visits from residents of Long Beach.

         South Nassau has submitted a Certificate of Need (CON) to the New York State Department of Health to upgrade the South Nassau Urgent Care Center in Long Beach to an off-campus, hospital-based Emergency Services Department that will be able to receive ambulances via the 911 network.

         Assuming timely review and approval of the CON application, South Nassau expects Long Island’s first off-campus, hospital-based emergency services department to be fully operational by July 1, 2015. South Nassau estimates it will cost $5 million to upgrade the existing Urgent Care Center to an off-campus Emergency Department. The new $5 million is in addition to the $5 million South Nassau has already invested to establish the Urgent Care Center, which was opened last July.

         In order to meet state requirements for certification as  an off-campus Emergency Department, the urgent care center requires significant upgrades including (but not limited to) an 600-square foot expansion to include three observation beds, an emergency generator, wider corridors and a new ventilation system.

         When it opens, the off-campus Emergency Department will be staffed by physicians board-certified in emergency medicine. As per existing Department of Health protocol, all acute strokes, heart attacks and trauma patients transported by EMS will be brought to the appropriate state-designated hospital. Any patient who requires hospital admission or advanced levels of treatment will be transferred from the off-campus Emergency Department in Long Beach to the South Nassau campus in Oceanside, or the appropriate hospital. South Nassau, which services some 900,000 residents of the South Shore from Queens to Suffolk County, is a Level II trauma center and advanced cardiac center

         South Nassau is the only hospital on Long Island to win four major awards for quality in recent months, including for nursing excellence, patient safety and top rankings from U.S. News & World Report & from the Joint Commission.

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, maternity, 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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