Long Island Select Healthcare
To provide primary and preventative healthcare services to residents of specific areas of Suffolk County with a focus on low income, medically unserved and underserved individuals.
Our services
Who We Are
Our Core Values are:
As a 501 © (3) non-profit organization, Long Island Select Healthcare, Inc. (LISH) serves over 6,000 patients at eight strategic locations throughout Suffolk County, NY. We are a 16-specialty Article 28 Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and NYS Article 16 Rehabiliation Clinic. In 2017, LISH provided more than 70,000 visits at 8 sites located within Suffolk County.
Approximately 78% of the center’s clients are covered by Medicaid. A large portion of our patient population includes patients with disabilities such as: cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, autism, down syndrome, and more.
In 2014, the clinics of three Long Island Human Services agencies: Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI), Family Residences and Essential Enterprises (FREE), and United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Suffolk Inc. (UCP), formed Long Island Select Healthcare, Inc. (LISH). Our first day of operations as Long Island Select Healthcare, Inc. was on August 22, 2016.
FTCA Deemed Organization – This health center is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C 233 (g)-(n). Therefore, Long Island Select Healthcare, Inc. (LISH) is granted medical malpractice liability protection through the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), and its employees are considered Federal employees with the Federal Government acting as their primary insurer.
LISH has partnered with community pharmacies to provide for home delivery of your medication. This free service is available to you. The pharmacies you may contact include the following: Medford Chemist (631) 475 -1171, Centereach pharmacy (631) 588-8911, Brentwood pharmacy (631) 273 – 3314, Martin Drugs (631) 727- 0550, Moby Drugs (516) 249-0268 and 112 Pharmacy (631) 289-2468. Tell the pharmacy you are a LISH patient and you would like home delivery of your medications. We will switch your prescriptions for you.
How You Can Help
LISH accepts donations of financial gifts, volunteer services, gently used medical equipment, and electronics. Financial gifts may be in the forms of endowments or cash donations. Volunteering includes internship opportunities in the areas of therapy, medical, dental, administration and finance.
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