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LONG ISLAND HEALTH CARE SURVEY FINDINGS

January 10, 2008

Contact:
Shelley Lotenberg
516-572-6055
shelley@numc.edu

—PARTNERSHIP OF ADELPHI UNIVERSITY’S VITAL SIGNS, NASSAU HEALTH CARE CORPORATION’S INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES AND NORTH SHORE-LIJ HEALTH SYSTEM——

East Meadow, NY….The Long Island Health Care Survey, a result of the partnership of Adelphi University’s Vital Signs, Nassau Health Care Corporation’s Institute for Healthcare Disparities and North Shore-LIJ Health System, was released at a conference held on Thursday, January 10, 2008 in the auditorium of NUMC.

The in-depth, bilingual phone survey, conceived by Adelphi’s Vital Signs campus-community partnership project and conducted last spring by Princeton Survey Research Associates, Inc. with 1,561 adults ages 18 and older, examined the health status and access to health insurance and health care services of Long Island’s diverse populations. The resulting report moves beyond a profile of health status outcomes to an analysis of residents’ health care decision-making and experiences accessing health care. While Long Island residents’ overall health and access to care are favorable, significant barriers and inequalities persist. The breakthrough survey revealed uneven health care access and medical hardship for LI residents with racial/ethnic minorities and those with low incomes suffering the most.

“We at Nassau University Medical Center have been taking aggressive steps to address inequalities in our region, including the establishment of Nassau Health Care Corporation’s Institute for Healthcare Disparities to expand our efforts in service provision, outreach, education and research,” said NHCC President and Chief Executive Officer Arthur A. Gianelli. “This landmark study will accelerate our progress in this area.”

Left to right:
Dr. Robert A. Scott, President, Adelphi University
Dr. Suzanne Michael, Faculty Director, Vital Signs
Dr. Sarah Eichberg, Project Director, Vital Signs
Michael J. Dowling, President and Chief Executive Officer, North Shore-LIJ Health System
Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO, Nassau Health Care Corporation
Hon. New York State Senator Kemp Hannon