Welcome to the Social Work Department of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Our hope is to uphold the mission, vision, and values of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, by providing high quality, caring services to our patients.

Our staff strives to assist patients dealing with the crisis of acute illness, as well as the challenge of coping with chronic illness.

Physical illness can have major impact on the lives of patients as well as those of their families.

The staff seeks to assist patients in improving their well-being through careful psychosocial assessment, advocacy, education, counseling, and planning for aftercare needs. In doing so, we enable patient to overcome personal, financial, and environmental difficulties.

Function

Our social workers collaborate with all departments throughout the institution.

Social Work services are available on all inpatient units: Medical, Surgical, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cardiac, and Critical Care Units.

Social Work is available to patients in our Emergency Department, as well as the Medical Center’s various Ambulatory Care programs, including the General Medical Clinic, the Ob/Gyn clinic, The Prenatal Care Assistance Program, and Satellite Dialysis program.

Our social workers are all Master’s level graduates of accredited schools of Social Work.

Our paraprofessional staff, under the supervision of licensed social workers, assists patients and families in accessing government entitlement programs through our Medicaid Eligibility Program.
 
For further information, please feel free to contact us at (718) 470-7540.
 
Best Wishes!
  
Richard J. Zaino, LCSW
Director, LIJ Department of Social Work Services
270-05 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, N.Y. 11040