Pat Lazio, RN, MS
Pat Lazio, RN, MS, is the manager of the nurse practitioners and nurses in the Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center.
When Mount Sinai’s COVID-19 vaccine program rolled out in January 2021, Pat shifted all of her effort to that program, playing a key leadership role there. She tirelessly worked at least 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for months on end without respite. She demonstrated impeccable professionalism, honesty, and fairness, making herself completely available to staff and vaccine candidates at any time.
“In her typical selfless fashion, she gave out her cell phone number to anyone and everyone, so that she could communicate with them by text or phone, and she responded clearly and quickly to all communications,’ says Yvette Cummings, RN, Senior Director, Nursing, The Mount Sinai Hospital. “She managed the vaccine pod with the other staff in an impressively smooth and efficient way. And she conducted all of this with optimism and good cheer.”
Her innate troubleshooting and organizational skills were put into action to the benefit of all.
“We are relieved that the vaccine program was able to wind down so that Pat could return to her original position after Memorial Day, serving our very complex patient population with IBD.”