The ten hospitals of the Long Island Health Network (LIHN) recently recognized State Senator Kemp Hannon with their 2008 Quality Leadership Award for his commitment to LIHN's goals of improving healthcare quality and increasing access to affordable healthcare. Sen. Hannon (center), who chairs the Senate's Health Committee, was honored by LIHN's President and CEO Brian Currie and Senior Vice President Kathleen Masiulis before 700 attendees at LIHN's recent annual caregiver symposium. Sen. Hannon told attendees, "LIHN is bound together by a quality network of hospitals - that's what we want in modern medicine." Sen. Hannon is regarded as a national healthcare industry expert and has supported important legislation governing patient safety, long-term care, women's health and health insurance and payment reform. LIHN hospitals have worked cooperatively as a clinically integrated joint venture to institute standards of care and efficiency that have improved clinical quality and results, while saving tens of millions of dollars.