Skelos Secures $250K Grant for South Nassau Expansion

Through the help of a $250,000 grant secured by New York State Senate Majority Leader, Dean Skelos, R-Rockville Centre, South Nassau Communities Hospital will now have the funding to support a multi-phase expansion of the hospital’s Center for Cardiovascular Health. 

The funding is being provided by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York under its New York State Technology and Development Program (NYSTAD), and will support the construction of a new electrophysiology laboratory and procedure room within the center. 

"The construction of new facilities for electrophysiology and arrhythmia services at the Center for Cardiovascular Health will help us fulfill our mission to provide Long Island’s South Shore communities with the standard-setting care for life threatening cardiovascular conditions and diseases,” said Joseph A. Quagliata, president & CEO of South Nassau.

Services to be provided in the new electrophysiology lab include diagnostic studies to determine the source of arrhythmia symptoms and to assess the need for implantable devices; treatment procedures, including implantation and testing of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators; cardiac re-synchronization therapy for treatment of chronic heart failure; and radio-frequency catheter ablation (a procedure that restores normal conduction of electrical impulses that regulate heart rhythms).