Oceanside-based Mount Sinai South Nassau received a $5 million gift to name the new patient care pavilion at the hospital.
The gift, from The Louis Feil Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, is the single largest donation in the hospital’s history. The new four-story, 100,000-square-foot “Feil Family Pavilion” will open in the spring of 2024. It will double the size of the current Emergency Department, increase the critical and intensive care inpatient capacity to 40 beds, and add nine new operating rooms.
“Mount Sinai South Nassau is our local hospital, and we are grateful for the expert care it provides to our communities on the South Shore,” Jeffrey J. Feil, CEO of the Feil Organization and a lRockville Centre resident, said in a statement. “We are so fortunate to have an outstanding medical center right in our backyard. The Feil family is honored to support the growth of Mount Sinai South Nassau.”
Feil and his family, including his parents, the late Gertrude and Louis, have been longtime supporters of the hospital. With their latest gift, the family has donated a total of $17 million to benefit the hospital and the patients it serves.
“This generous gift by the Feil family will have a direct impact on improving patient care on the South Shore. We are deeply thankful for their generosity and support,” Dr. Adhi Sharma, president of Mount Sinai South Nassau, said in a statement. “It will be the hospital’s distinct honor to name the new patient care tower in honor and recognition of the Feil Family and their longstanding commitment to Mount Sinai South Nassau.”
“Their support and commitment has been vital to the growth of our emergency services and cancer care program as well as the hospital’s tradition of excellence in the delivery of advanced care services,” Dr. Sharma added.
“The ultimate beneficiary of the Feil family’s generosity is our South Shore community that turns to Mount Sinai South Nassau for compassionate, quality health care,” Tony Cancellieri, co-chair of the hospital’s board of directors. “On behalf of the Hospital’s Board of Directors, we are grateful to our dear friends Jeffrey and Lee Feil and their entire family and are honored to name the pavilion as a permanent expression of gratitude for this gift and the ongoing support of the Feil family.”
The family’s previous generosity includes a total of $2 million in 2019 and $1.5 million in 2018 to help centralize the hospital’s cancer care services and a $3 million donation to Mount Sinai South Nassau in the spring of 2011 that supported the continued growth and expansion of the Gertrude & Louis Feil Cancer Center.
The Feil gift is the second major gift connected with the new four-story patient building currently under construction. Last year, the hospital’s immediate past chair of the board, Joseph Fennessy, made a major gift to the hospital to name the pedestrian entrance to the new Emergency Department after the Fennessy family.
Additional naming opportunities remain within the new pavilion, including nursing stations, lobby areas, and surgical suites.
