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During Your Stay - Numc Find a Doctor Ask well-nigh Financial Assistance Find a Phone Number / Contact Patient Visit A Patient / View Visiting Hours Find Directions/Maps Access My Medical Records Make an Appointment Refill My Prescription LearnWell-nighOur Centers ofSuperintendencyThank a Staff Member or Physician VolunteerTropical(x)I Want To... Nuhealth Foundation Make An Appointment  |  Access My Medical Records  |  Refill My Prescription Insurance Access en español HomeAbout NuHealth Message from the CEO Our Vision Looking Forward Raising the Bar Our History Staff Executive Staff Board of Directors Department Chairs Centers ofSuperintendencyNassau University Medical Center A. 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Ask well-nigh Financial Assistance Find a Phone Number / Contact Patient Visit A Patient / View Visiting Hours Find Directions/Maps Access My Medical Records Make an Appointment Refill My Prescription LearnWell-nighOur Centers ofSuperintendencyThank a Staff Member or Physician Volunteer During Your Stay Home / Patients & Visitors / During Your Stay During Your Stay Personal Belongings Please do not store valuable items – such as money, jewelry, or other personal belongings – in your room at the hospital. While we strive to maintain the highest possible standards of security, the Medical Center cannot be responsible for the loss of or forfeiture to personal property. Please talk with your nurse well-nigh storing valuable personal items. In addition, if you wear dentures or eyeglasses, please pay special sustentation to where you place them without removing them. Meals Good nutrition plays an important part in your health and well-being. The Food and Nutrition Department at the Medical Center makes every effort to ensure that your meals are nutritious, tasty and served to you promptly. Meals are normally served within the pursuit hours, equal to your unit’s schedule: Breakfast – 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Lunch – 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Dinner – 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Television and Telephone Rental To unify for patient telephone and television rental service in your room, please undeniability 572-6000. There is a daily rental tuition – presently $7.00 for television service and $4.00 for telephone service – which must be paid to our representative. Representatives are misogynist Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Saturday. Incoming telephone calls go directly to your room. To make a undeniability within the hospital, dial ‘2’ followed by the four-digit extension (for example, 2-0123). Dial ‘9’ followed by the phone number to make an outgoing call. Long loftiness calls must be made collect, on a calling card, or billed to a third party phone number. If you use a calling vellum to make a long loftiness phone call, please dial ‘7’, then ‘2’, then ‘0’ surpassing dialing the zone lawmaking and phone number. Translation Services NUMC serves the needs of a diverse population. Some of our patients speak little or no English. Since we are moreover fortunate to have a multicultural staff, we put together a list of employees who speak various languages. This list has been distributed to all hospital departments. If you or a member of your family need an interpreter, please request one from your caregiver. No Smoking Policy For the health of all and the repletion of most, smoking is not unliable inside the Medical Center. NUMC allows smoking only in designated areas outside the building. Please help us to make your hospital stay and that of your fellow patients as well-appointed as possible by refraining from smoking. Fire Safety Nassau University Medical Center strives to provide a fire-safe environment. Our program for doing this includes preventive maintenance of the building’s fire protection features, training of staff so they can be well prepared in the event of a fire emergency, and interim life safety measures to offset special situations created by construction projects. During your stay at NUMC, you may hear fire bells. The wedding may sound for several reasons – a test of the fire watchtower system, a malfunction of a device within the fire watchtower system, a fire drill, or an very fire. In the event of a fire, the number of wedding rung lets the staff know its location. Should fire wedding sound at a location tropical to your floor, you will notice an increase in staff activity. They may uncork latter doors and transplanting rolling stock from the corridors. The smoke doors in the corridors (which prevent fire and smoke from spreading) may moreover tropical – this is a normal part of the fire emergency procedure, and is no rationalization for alarm. A staff member, usually a nurse, will requite you any information you may need to know in the event of a fire emergency. If necessary, in rare cases, your bed may be moved past the next set of smoke doors on your floor. Healthcare Proxy and Living Will The New York Healthcare Proxy Law allows you to sublease someone you trust, such as a family member or tropical friend, to decide well-nigh treatment if you lose the worthiness to decide for yourself. You sublease someone by signing a form tabbed a Healthcare Proxy. The person you select is tabbed your health superintendency agent. He or she will have as much or as little validity as you decide. You can requite the wage-earner decision-making power well-nigh all health care, or only well-nigh unrepealable treatments You may requite your healthcare wage-earner instructions that he or she has to follow. The wage-earner then makes sure that health superintendency professionals follow your wishes, and decides how your wishes wield as your medical condition changes. A HealthSuperintendencyProxy form is included in the booklet entitled Your Rights as a Hospital Patient, which you will receive when you are admitted. You may moreover get a reprinting of the form from a Nassau University Medical Center Patient Representative, whom you can undeniability at 572-5713. A Healthcare Proxy is not the same as a Living Will. A Living Will is a document that provides specific instructions well-nigh healthcare treatment. It’s usually used to declare wishes to refuse life-sustaining treatment under certain, specified circumstances.Requitethe Gift of Life Nassau University Medical Center is united with the New York Organ Donor Network. We urge everyone to consider making the transferral to wilt an organ and tissue donor. Make a transferral to organ donation by signing an organ donor vellum or the when of your driver’s license. Tell your family well-nigh your visualization and have them witness your signature. Hospital personnel will only proceed with organ donation without consent has been obtained by a patient’s next of kin. Talk well-nigh your wishes now so they can siphon out your visualization later. To receive a self-ruling informational brochure and donor card, undeniability the NEW YORK ORGAN DONOR NETWORK at 1-800-GIFT-4-NY. Payment for YourSuperintendencyOur Patient Accounts Department (572-6669) provides a number of services to help unstrap the financial undersong of health superintendency for patients. NUMC has an on-site Medicaid office to squire in completing applications for state assistance, as well as a counseling service to assess family finances and determine any workable welding to charges for those patients without insurance. For those patients whose income exceeds the worthiness rating guidelines, we offer a variety of payment options, including a 24-month, no-interest installment plan. You may moreover receive a snout for physician services performed here at the hospital. Please be enlightened that these charges are separate from other services associated with your hospital stay and/or treatment, and are thus not included on any other snout you may receive. NUMC has a Practice Plan Billing Office on-site that will respond to any questions you may have well-nigh your snout for physician services. The telephone numbers of this office are (516) 572-6374 and (516) 572-6913. Medicare Patients As a Medicare patient, you have the pursuit rights under New York State law:Surpassingyou are discharged, you must receive a written venting plan. You or your representative have the right to be involved in your venting planning. Your written venting plan must describe the arrangements for any future health superintendency that you may need without discharge. You may not be discharged until the services required in your written venting plan are secured or unswayable to be reasonably available. If you do not stipulate with the venting plan or believe the services are not reasonably available, you may undeniability the New York State Health Department to investigate your complaint and the safety of your discharge. The hospital must provide you with the Health Department’s telephone number if you ask for it. HealthFirst Nassau University Medical Center has its own HMO (Health Maintenance Organization), known as HealthFirst. Those who join it receive pediatric and sultana medical care, as well as maternity, women’s health, mental health, and swig and substance vituperate services. Among member benefits are: Access to the fully staffed DoctorsWithoutHours, unshut from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on Sunday for non-emergency cases. 24-hour-a-day telephone contact with health superintendency providers who can write concerns. A multi-lingual clerical and clinical staff, speaking English, Spanish and Haitian-Creole. Health centers that are unshut mornings, afternoons and evenings. Located in user-friendly sites throughout Nassau County. Members are moreover reimbursed for transportation to and from covered medical services when tried by HealthFirst. For increasingly information well-nigh HealthFirst services and eligibility requirements, undeniability 1-800-404-8778 (English) or 1-800-408-8778 (Spanish). To reach the HealthFirst office on the NUMC campus, undeniability (516) 572-3056. When You Leave the Hospital While you are in the hospital, your health superintendency team includes physicians, nurses, dietitians, a social worker and a specimen manager, all of whom are misogynist to wordplay questions regarding your venting plan, venting date, and any procedures relating to post-hospital care.Ventingplanning is the process by which your health superintendency team helps you plan for your superintendency without you leave the hospital. The overall process is coordinated by a social worker and/or venting planner to reassure that your venting will proceed smoothly.Surpassingyou leave the hospital, you will receive a written venting plan with instructions for follow-up care. In addition, within 24 hours surpassing your scheduled release, you will be given a written venting notice. This notice will indicate the stage you are scheduled to leave the hospital. It will moreover explain how and when to request if you finger that you are not ready to be discharged. Our social workers can make your transition when into the polity as easy as possible. To contact the Social Work office, undeniability (516) 572-4912. Contact Us Careers Phone Directory Site Map Disclaimer Privacy Policy Library Professional Login Employee E-Mail Archive © NuHealth, 2201 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow, NY 11554 | (516) 572-0123