NUMC OPENS NEW EYE CENTER, PROVIDING SPECIALTY AND EMERGENCY OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SERVICES
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October 13, 2011
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NUMC OPENS NEW EYE CENTER, PROVIDING SPECIALTY AND EMERGENCY OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SERVICES
WHAT: NuHealth officials, along with board of directors, and staff will open the new Eye Center at NUMC. The Eye Center had been previously located in a trailer for almost forty years, and finally relocated to a new facility on the first floor of the B building. For almost 50 years, the Eye Center had been providing the residents of Nassau County with superior eye care, ranging from comprehensive eye exams to emergency eye care and to specialized eye surgeries to its 11,000 eye outpatient center patients and over 600 surgeries each year.
WHO: Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO, NuHealth
Marcelle Morcos, MD, chair, department of ophthalmology at NUMC
WHEN: Friday, October 14, 2011, 11:00am
WHERE: Nassau University Medical Center
First Floor B Building
(enter by Carman Avenue Main Entrance)
WHY: NUMC officials noted that the renovations were undertaken with $600,000 from NUMC’s capital project funds. The new state-of-the-art 3500 square feet facility is fully equipped with ten new eye exam rooms. The services include specialty ophthalmological services with highly sophisticated diagnostic and treatment technologies not often found in private eye care centers. The services also include cataract surgery, glaucoma, retina and vitreous disease, pediatric eye care, eye care for trauma patients, laser vision corrections, etc…
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