Mount Sinai Announces 2014 Annual Excellence in Nursing Practice Award Recipients
The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens culminated its National Nurses Week celebration by recognizing 15 nurses as leaders in innovation, education, research and patient care at its 33rd Annual Boards of Trustees Awards for Excellence in Nursing Practice on Tuesday, May 6. The award ceremony was one of several events honoring Mount Sinai nurses during the week-long celebration honoring contributions and commitments by nurses at Mount Sinai.
“I’m very proud to lead Mount Sinai’s nursing body, and salute our nurse who give tirelessly of themselves day in and day out,” said Carol Porter, DNP, RN, FAAN, The Edgar M. Cullman, Sr. Chair of the Department of Nursing, Chief Nursing Officer, and Associate Dean of Nursing and Research. “I am truly in awe of the talent of our recipients this year. They are fine examples of the caliber of nurses at our health system.”
Participating in the ceremony were Boards of Trustee members: Susan R. Cullman and Patricia S. Levinson, who is the Department of Nursing representative on the Board’s Patient Care and Quality Assurance Committee. Ms. Cullman and her brother, Edgar M. Cullman, Jr., represent similar interests and concerns of their father, the late Edgar M. Cullman, Sr., who served on the Boards of Trustees for more than 50 years, and was a long-time supporter of excellence in nursing and patient care at Mount Sinai.
Award recipients included: Joshua Lasseigne, BSN, RN, CHPN, KP 6; Maureen Cannon, ANP, BC, NP, Dubin Breast Center; Margaret Ort, MSN, RN, CEN, Clinical Nurse, Interventional Radiology; Lindsay Condrat, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, GP 7Center; Syreeta Clement, MA, BSN, RNC, Clinical Nurse, KP5; Kristi Gourdine, BSN, RN, Clinical Nurse, Emergency Department; Timothy Pitta, BSN, RN, CCRN, CSICU; Shirin Agay, BSN, RN, Clinical Nurse, CCU, Mount Sinai Heart; Deborah Hutchison, BSN, RNC, Clinical Coordinator, NICU; Miwa Saito, BSN, RN, Oncology; Denise Nepaulsingh, RN, PACU; Nicole Lewis, MSN, ANP-BC, CCRN Clinical Nurse, SICU; Meliza Curray, BSN, RNC, Clinical Nurse, KP 7; Erin Spahic, BSN, RN, Mount Sinai Queens, Emergency Department; and Dechen Lama, BSN, RN, Mount Sinai Queens, 4 East.
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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