South Nassau is a Pacesetter for Blood Donations
Oceanside, NY, June 24, 2009 --(PR.com)-- South Nassau Communities Hospital has been named a winner of the Long Island Blood Service (LIBS) 2008 Pacesetter Award. The annual award is presented to hospitals and organizations that collect more than 500 pints of blood during the year. In 2008, South Nassau held four blood drives that collected a combined totaled of 1,096 units of blood.
This marks the fourth consecutive year that South Nassau has earned the Pacesetter Award. In 2005, South Nassau was awarded the LIBS Diamond Award, which is presented to hospitals and organizations that achieve above-average employee participation rate of 50 Pints per 100 employees and a high total of blood donations. South Nassau also received the Gold Medal Award from America’s Blood Centers in 2004 for its efforts in raising awareness of the need for blood donation and its support of community blood drive programs and it finished first among Long Island hospitals for employee blood donations in 2002 to win Vytra Health Plans’ Hospital Blood Donor Campaign Championship.
South Nassau’s leadership in collecting blood donations is accentuated by its partnership with LIBS to promote blood donations. Recently, LIBS and South Nassau opened the doors to LIBS’ new donor center at 290 Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, NY.
The center is open to receive whole blood or platelets on the following days:
Day Whole Blood Platelets
Monday Closed 1:45 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Tuesday 2 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 1 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Thursday 2:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 1:45 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday 2 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 1 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Sunday Closed 7:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
To schedule a blood or platelet donation, call: 1-800-933-2566.
South Nassau will hold its next Blood Drive on July 9 from 7am - 9pm in its Albert Conference Room. For more information, please call 632-3930.
Long Island Blood Services (LIBS) is a division of New York Blood Center, the nation’s largest community-based non-profit blood collection and distribution organization. LIBS has been providing life-saving blood products and services to 50 hospitals throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens for close to 40 years.
South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 441 beds, more than 875 physicians and 2,600 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 is a designated Stroke Center, boasts Long Island’s first Gamma Knifeâ and provides angioplasty in an emergency or as an elective procedure. South Nassau is designated as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society of Bariatric Surgery.
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This marks the fourth consecutive year that South Nassau has earned the Pacesetter Award. In 2005, South Nassau was awarded the LIBS Diamond Award, which is presented to hospitals and organizations that achieve above-average employee participation rate of 50 Pints per 100 employees and a high total of blood donations. South Nassau also received the Gold Medal Award from America’s Blood Centers in 2004 for its efforts in raising awareness of the need for blood donation and its support of community blood drive programs and it finished first among Long Island hospitals for employee blood donations in 2002 to win Vytra Health Plans’ Hospital Blood Donor Campaign Championship.
South Nassau’s leadership in collecting blood donations is accentuated by its partnership with LIBS to promote blood donations. Recently, LIBS and South Nassau opened the doors to LIBS’ new donor center at 290 Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, NY.
The center is open to receive whole blood or platelets on the following days:
Day Whole Blood Platelets
Monday Closed 1:45 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Tuesday 2 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 1 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Thursday 2:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 1:45 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday 2 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 1 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Sunday Closed 7:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
To schedule a blood or platelet donation, call: 1-800-933-2566.
South Nassau will hold its next Blood Drive on July 9 from 7am - 9pm in its Albert Conference Room. For more information, please call 632-3930.
Long Island Blood Services (LIBS) is a division of New York Blood Center, the nation’s largest community-based non-profit blood collection and distribution organization. LIBS has been providing life-saving blood products and services to 50 hospitals throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens for close to 40 years.
South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 441 beds, more than 875 physicians and 2,600 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 is a designated Stroke Center, boasts Long Island’s first Gamma Knifeâ and provides angioplasty in an emergency or as an elective procedure. South Nassau is designated as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society of Bariatric Surgery.
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Damian J. Becker
516-377-5370
southnassau.org
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516-377-5370
southnassau.org
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