Cardiac Care Unit at The Mount Sinai Hospital Awarded for its Excellence
The Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) awarded The Beacon Award for Excellence from The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Mount Sinai Heart at The Mount Sinai Hospital is pleased to announce its Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) has joined the prestigious ranks of a select number of critical care units in New York State to be awarded The Beacon Award for Excellence from The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the leading society of acute and critical care nurses with more than 100,000 members.
The Beacon Award designation, which is awarded at the gold, silver, or bronze level, was developed by the AACN in 2003. AACN created the Beacon Award to provide critical care units with vital tools to assist their upward path to continuous overall excellence. Awardees, like Mount Sinai's CCU, are recognized for their dedication to improving patient care.
"Our Cardiac Care Unit's recognition with the Beacon Award for Excellence is another reminder for patients, their families, and referring physicians just how stellar the clinical care and patient outcomes are here at Mount Sinai Heart and The Mount Sinai Hospital,"says Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief at The Mount Sinai Hospital. "Congratulations to the CCU team at Mount Sinai Heart for their hard work and never tiring commitment to excellence."
Mount Sinai's CCU was awarded its three-year Silver level designation of The Beacon Award for Excellence on January 2, 2014 for its success in following key indicators:
- Leadership structures and systems
- Appropriate staffing and staff engagement
- Effective communication, knowledge management, learning and development, and best practices
- Evidence-based practice and processes
- Outcome measurement
"We are so proud to offer our nurses and nurse practitioners a positive and supportive work environment with a true sense of team here at Mount Sinai,"says Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Vice President Clinical Operations at Mount Sinai Heart. "Working closely together each and every day, we aim to offer nothing but the best clinical care possible to patients in the CCU and across every patient unit in Mount Sinai Heart and Mount Sinai Hospital."
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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