South Nassau Communities Hospital Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Oceanside, NY, April 05, 2012 --(PR.com)-- South Nassau Communities Hospital President and CEO Joseph A. Quagliata announced that Mark A. Bogen, CPA, has been named senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer (CFO) of the hospital. Mr. Bogen, who served as South Nassau’s vice president of finance since 2008, succeeds Mr. Gerald Haas, who retired after serving as the hospital’s CFO for more than 10 years.

“Mark has been central to the coordination, supervision and direction of all day-to-day financial operations, ensuring that South Nassau has the fiscal resources to grow and add the healthcare services and programs needed by the communities and patients we serve,” said Mr. Quagliata. “We are confident that his experience and acumen will help keep us on a financial path that will sustain South Nassau’s growth."

As senior vice president and CFO, Mr. Bogen will be responsible for the overall financial management of South Nassau and will manage the Hospital’s financial reporting and related internal controls. He will also direct the organization’s financial planning related to growth, financing and associated issues and will coordinate all relationships with auditors, third-party reimbursement agents, managed care companies, investment bankers and the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY).

Mr. Bogen has more than 35 years of experience in healthcare financial operations. Prior to joining South Nassau, he was a Director at a nationally recognized healthcare financial consulting firm, Besler Consulting, where he managed the startup of the company’s New York operations. In 1997, Mr. Bogen founded The Bogen Consulting Group, Inc., and merged it with Besler in 2004. Before venturing into the consulting business, Mr. Bogen served as chief financial officer at Preferred Health Network, Inc., a $400 million, four-hospital, 1,200-bed hospital network. Mr. Bogen’s background also includes 10 years of CPA firm experience, eight with Pannell Kerr Forster and two as an executive at Deloitte & Touche, performing audit, tax and consulting services.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science in Management, Mr. Bogen is active in numerous public accounting and healthcare financial management associations. His professional memberships include the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants; the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the Healthcare Compliance Association.

South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 435 beds, more than 900 physicians and 2,900 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® Perfexion 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 recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.