NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens Emergency Nursing Team Receives Prestigious Lantern Award from Emergency Nurses Association
The Lantern Award showcases the Emergency Department’s accomplishments in incorporating evidence-based practice and innovation into emergency care
Aug 14, 2024
The Emergency Nursing Team at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens has been selected as a recipient of the Emergency Nurses Association’s 2024 Lantern Award for demonstrating excellence in leadership, practice, education, advocacy, and research performance. The Lantern Award showcases the Emergency Department’s accomplishments in incorporating evidence-based practice and innovation into emergency care. Through collaboration and teamwork, the department achieved the Primary Stroke Center designation, ACEP-accredited Geriatric Emergency Department, and excelled in areas such as early emergency care and intervention, ED follow-up program, sepsis management, medication safety, falls prevention, restraint reduction, and patient experience. This recognition serves as a visible symbol of the team’s commitment to quality, safety, and a healthy work environment, and further highlights the hospital’s dedication to providing the highest standard of care to the community.
“We are thrilled and honored to receive the prestigious Lantern Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. This recognition is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and innovation of our emergency nursing team,” stated Neil J. Moore, MBA, MPA, FACHE, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens.
“I am extremely pleased and proud that the Emergency Nurses Association has bestowed the prestigious ENA Lantern Award on our NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens Emergency Department,” said NYC Health + Hospitals Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive Natalia Cineas, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN. “Our Queens nurses are instrumental in providing compassionate and life-saving care while responding to more than 88,000 emergency visits every year. Queens is one of just 94 emergency departments around the world to be recognized with this esteemed designation in 2024 and joins our own NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan as a 2024 EMA Lantern Award recipient; NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health received the Award in 2023. All three of these emergency departments earned the ENA Lantern Award by demonstrating exceptional and innovative evidence-based practice. Queens’ achievement is all the more remarkable considering that the Emergency Department has been serving a community where numerous hospitals have closed in recent years, more than doubling Queens’ Emergency Department patient volume. We congratulate our Queens nurses for advancing the emergency nursing profession and practice through their leadership, quality and safety improvements, research, and advocacy, and we applaud this impressive recognition of their commitment to nursing excellence and exceptional patient care.”
“We are immensely proud of our Emergency Nursing Team at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens for their exceptional dedication and commitment to providing the highest standard of care to our community. This prestigious Lantern Award is a testament to their relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation in emergency care,” expressed Dr. Dave Holson, Chief Medical Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens.
“Achieving the prestigious Lantern award demonstrates the excellence of our nursing team and the designation is a testament of our nurses’ positive and innovative practice as they continue to expand their role through research and education. Our nurses have been dedicated to consistently provide high quality, safe care to our community and patients regardless of our ED volumes under their exceptional director, Suja Mohan. Our ED nursing team is truly a dynamic patient-centered, collaborative, cohesive team that is the foundation of the Emergency Department. I am extremely proud of what they do every day!” said Dr. Abbi-Gail Baboolal, Chief Nursing Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens.
Dr. Denise Chuang, Director of Emergency Medicine of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, also expressed her thoughts, stating, “The receipt of the Lantern Award reflects the unwavering dedication and collaborative spirit of our entire emergency medicine team at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens. This recognition underscores our commitment to safe, high-quality patient care and the creation of a supportive and positive work environment for our nursing staff.”
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens’ Lantern Award will be proudly displayed in the emergency department. As a recipient, NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens will be acknowledged in upcoming ENA publications, on the ENA website, and during Emergency Nursing 2024, the association’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Sept. 4-7.
For more information on this year’s Lantern Award recipients, please visit the Emergency Nurses Association website.
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Media Contact: Cleon Edwards, NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, 646-772-5725
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About NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
A member of NYC Health and Hospitals, NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens is a major health care provider in the borough of Queens. Its foremost mission is to provide quality, comprehensive care to all members of the public regardless of their ability to pay. The year 2015 marked its 80th anniversary of serving the communities of central and southeastern Queens, having first opened its doors as Queens General Hospital in 1935. Encompassing 360,000 square feet, it comprises 253 licensed beds, spacious ambulatory care suites featuring both primary and specialty services, and cutting-edge equipment. It also houses four Centers of Excellence: Cancer Care, Diabetes Management, Women’s Health, and Behavioral Health. The hospital has recently added a fully expanded Emergency Room, a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence accredited by the American College of Radiology, and a Total Hip and Knee Replacement Center, with plans underway to build the Health System’s first Dialysis Center to train patients to perform their own at-home dialysis. To learn more about NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, visit https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/queens/.
About NYC Health + Hospitals
NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, and post-acute care centers. We are a home care agency and a health plan, MetroPlus. Our health system provides essential services to more than one million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city’s five boroughs. Our diverse workforce of more than 43,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible. For more information, visit www.nychealthandhospitals.org and stay connected on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
About the Emergency Nurses Association
The Emergency Nurses Association is the premier professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing through advocacy, education, research, innovation, and leadership. Founded in 1970, ENA has proven to be an indispensable resource to the global emergency nursing community. With nearly 50,000 members worldwide, ENA advocates for patient safety, develops industry-leading practice standards and guidelines and guides emergency health care public policy. ENA members have expertise in triage, patient care, disaster preparedness and all aspects of emergency care. Additional information is available at www.ena.org.