I am delighted to report that, once again, Mount Sinai Beth Israel has won a host of awards for stroke, heart attack, and heart failure care. Here are our awards for 2017:
- Mission: Lifeline® Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award in STEMI
- American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target: Stroke Elite Plus
- American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll
What impresses me most is the exceptional interdisciplinary teamwork that leads to these outcomes.
In the community, Emergency Medical Technicians and Medics do an incredible job of providing initial assessment and care and getting patients to us quickly and safely.
All of the employees in the Emergency Department play a key role in triaging and treating patients while notifying the teams for our Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Cardiology, Telemetry, and others that patients are coming their way.
These units then provide quick and specialized care for these patients and help see them through to recovery frequently in partnership with our inpatient teams.
Suchin Lin, RN is a heart failure champion on 8 Silver, pictured with Nurse Manager, Ellen Brady, RN.
Many more on our 8 Silver team who take care of our heart failure patients.
Sharon Alexander-Pierre, RN and Fern Caruthes, RN are also heart failure champions on 8 Silver. Here is Sharon Alexander-Pierre, RN with Maria Vallejo, RN, and Ivane Jean Charles, RN.
Here is our team of pharmacists who focus on heart failure patients: Jessica Wong, Alissa Hui, April Castillo, Tram Thai.
A few members of our STEMI team: Theresa Reynes, RN; Kathleen Kearney, NP; Stephanie Freeo, RN; John Fox, MD; Mary Cronin, RN.
A few more members of our STEMI team: Ramesh Gowda, MD; Nezir Durakovic, CVT; Yumiko Kanei, MD; Glenn Tac-An, CVT; Lena Chang, Director of Nursing; Kathleen Kearney, NP; Hugo Rosero, MD; Rufus Nagbe, CVT.
Members of our stroke team: Arash Yousefi, MD; Christina Marsh, MD; Cristina Schreckinger, MD; Lili Velickovic Ostojic, MD; Nick Lemus Esquival, MD; Terrance Tian, MD; Front row: Nikita Urval, MD; Clover Youn, MD. Not pictured are some of our Stroke Care team members Irene Boniece, MD, Kristine Ortiz, MD, and Myrna Skiut, MD.
The care does not stop there. The patients leave the hospital with a plan that includes follow-up appointments and phone calls, and other guidelines so they can continue their recovery.
I’d also like to give thanks to Monique Bell who helps us track every patient who comes through our doors and ensures that the American Heart Association gets our data.
Through this journey, our patients remain safe, and this is because of the dedication of so many of you.
Monique Bell, coordinator for these programs