South Nassau Hospital Receives $1.75 Million Gift

The Louis Feil Charitable Lead Annuity Trust has made a $1.75 million donation to South Nassau Communities Hospital to help relocate the hospital’s cancer program to a centralized comprehensive cancer center that will be based on the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside.

The donation is the largest single gift the hospital received in 2018 and the largest single year gift to South Nassau by the Feil Family Foundation, the hospital said.

“I thank the Feil family for their generosity and steadfast commitment to help us improve cancer care for the residents of Long Island’s South Shore,” said Richard J. Murphy, president and CEO of South Nassau.

The Feil family of Rockville Centre has donated more than $8.45 million to South Nassau over the past several years. This includes a $3 million donation to South Nassau in the spring of 2011 that supported the continued growth and expansion of the Gertrude & Louis Feil Cancer Center in Valley Stream and a $1.5 million dollar donation made last year, also in benefit of the cancer program consolidation plan.

South Nassau plans to expand its cancer programs with its new partner, the Mount Sinai Health System. In 2018, the program added services for liver cancer and expanded its staff of medical oncologists. An infusion center also was opened at the Oceanside hospital’s main campus. With South Nassau’s recent partnership with Mount Sinai, patients now will have access to cutting edge clinical trials and leading physicians.

“It is very gratifying for my family and me to see the gifts made by our family’s trust invested for the sole benefit of the patients that turn to South Nassau for the care they need to fight a cancer diagnosis,” said Jeffrey J. Feil. “South Nassau is my hospital and it is my honor to support their mission.”

Feil and his parents, the late Gertrude and Louis, have been lifelong residents of Rockville Centre. Feil serves as president and CEO of The Feil Organization, a family-owned real estate investment, development and management company based in New York City.

Presently, the hub of South Nassau’s cancer program is its Gertrude & Louis Feil Cancer Center. Many of the hospital's other cancer services, such as imaging, diagnostics and counseling, are located in satellite facilities across the South Shore of Nassau County.

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