Marlboro, NJ Resident Eli Feldman Recognized
with C.W. Post Distinguished Alumni Award

May 5, 2003 - Eli S. Feldman has made a career of helping others. Currently the president and chief executive officer of Metropolitan Jewish Health System based in Brooklyn, he oversees an organization comprised of 12 corporations, 3,000 employees and over 30 programs and services that provide care to more than 25,000 persons in the New York metropolitan area. These include in-patient skilled nursing and chronic care services; an extensive network of continuing care programs ranging from post-acute and long-term home care to respite services and hospice; as well as a unique HMO designed for both well and chronically impaired seniors.

In recognition of his great success, the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University (Brookville, New York) will honor him with a Distinguished Alumni Award at its 45th annual commencement ceremonies on May 11, 2003.

Feldman graduated cum laude from C.W. Post in 1966 with a B.S. in business administration and went on to earn an M.B.A. in hospital administration from Wagner College. He has lectured and written extensively on chronic and long-term care, and he participates in a variety of industry conferences that focus on eldercare and managed care issues. A diplomat of The American College of Healthcare Executives, Feldman served on Governor Mario Cuomo’s Task Force on Long Term Care Reform as well as his Health Care Advisory Board. In addition, he was a member of the New York State Senate’s Council on Health Care Financing, where he served on the Committee on Long Term Care. He is actively involved in numerous professional organizations and is a board member of several prominent agencies and associations that are dedicated to improving the quality of life for chronically impaired persons and the elderly.

Feldman lives in Marlboro, NJ, with his wife, Temi, and their sons, Benjamin and Elliot.

Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented to C.W. Post graduates who have achieved professional success and who serve as role models to students. Feldman will be honored along with two other distinguished alumni: Keith Turner, president of sales and marketing for the NBC Television Network and Randall P. Baker, a retired executive vice president for Oracle, and current director of Modernsoft, creator of the "Financial Genome" business modeling structure.

C.W. Post is one of six campuses of Long Island University, the seventh largest private university in the United States. With more than 13,000 full- and part-time students, C.W. Post offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in accountancy, business (AACSB accredited), computer science, liberal arts and sciences, library and information science (ALA accredited), education, health professions and nursing, public service, and visual and performing arts. C.W. Post also offers an extensive continuing education program.