Thursday, October 1, 2026
South Nassau Communities Hospital is working on expanding its Center for Cardiovascular Health and will soon be able to offer improved heart-condition treatments to South Shore residents.
The center, located in the hospital in Oceanside, was founded in 2008 to bring state-of-the-art cardiovascular services to Long Island. The center specializes in cardiac catheterization (a process used to produce images of the heart) and has one of the South Shore’s best electrophysiology labs.
The funding for the expansion came from a $250,000 grant from the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York with the help of State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre).
“We have a constantly expanding volume as we go on and take care of more patients on the South Shore,” explained Dr. Lawrence Kanner, the director of electrophysiology and arrhythmia services at South Nassau.
Kanner explained that the grant is being used for two purposes: to expand
the size of the center and to increase its services.
It is adding a new testing room with a state-of-the-art digital fluoroscopy machine, which will allow doctors to create three-dimensional images of patients’ hearts to aid in procedures. There will also be another procedure room, which will allow for more operations, such as the implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators, Kanner explained.
“When you do an ablation procedure — which is essentially when we modify cardiac tissue, usually via radio frequency energy, which is kind of like a little microwave burn dot,” Kanner said, “...we have to keep track of where we’re going and be able to make an image of the heart. There are a number of mapping systems that are available, and these are computerized mapping systems that create a three-dimensional picture of the heart. It’s pretty amazing stuff.”
Construction on the expansion is under way and should be completed in the late fall or early winter.
