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              Employee Recognition
              Teresa Amante, RN                                                                                                                                         Nurse Manager
                                                                                                                                                                        Telemetry
              Operations Administrator                                                                                                                                  Southside Hospital

              Cohen Children’s Medical Center                                                                                             2015


                                                                                                                                           Assistant Nurse Manager
                                                                                                                                           Telemetry/Evening
              A veteran of 16 years with Cohen Children’s       and respected by all of her colleagues.  As she                            Southside Hospital           2011
              Medical Center, Teresa Amante is an               strives to meet her patients’ needs, she uses                                                           Staff Nurse
              exceptional, approachable leader and role         the tools from Team STEPPS to develop a plan                                                            Telemetry
              model.  She completed her Bachelor’s              of action to handle each of these challenges.                     2009                                  Southside Hospital
              Degree from Molloy College and started her        With her engaging personality, Teresa has                                                                                                Colleen Morgan, RN, BSN
              nursing career as a Neonatal Intensive Care       an extraordinary way of empathizing with                          Nursing Assistant
              Unit Nurse. She has been the Operations           families during difficult situations.  Her                        Float
              Administrator at Cohen Children’s since           presence at Cohen’s creates an atmosphere                         Southside Hospital
              2010.  Teresa embodies our Culture of Care in     of positivity and caring.  Teresa is also not
              all that she does.  She is an advocate for both   afraid to roll up her sleeves and jump right in
              staff and patient satisfaction and is admired     to lend a helping hand to anyone in need.







              Orzac Center for Rehabilitation

              Delivering excellence                                                                                             At the 120-bed Northwell Health Orzac Center for          Our goal is to continue to build upon our

                                                                                                                                Rehabilitation, or “home away from home” as we            commitment to service excellence by continuously
              through commitment.                                                                                               like to think of it, our doctors, nurses, therapists,     raising our level of quality and care. That includes

                                                                                                                                social workers and other professionals work to
                                                                                                                                                                                          integrating programs like the CMS Antibiotic
                                                                                                                                provide a level of outstanding rehabilitative care        Stewardship program to enhance infection
                                                                                                                                and enriched quality of life for patients that can        prevention and promote good clinical outcomes
                                                                                                                                only be defined as selfless.                              while decreasing antimicrobial-associated toxicity,
                                                                                                                                                                                          pharmaceutical costs, patient length-of-stay, and
                                                                                                                                It’s a dedication that has been honored by the            microbial resistance. And utilizing technologies
                                                                                                                                New York Department of Health for consistently            like ESNF Tele-health program which connects
                                                                                                                                achieving positive results, full accreditation from the   an e-consults physician to patients that are
                                                                                                                                Joint Commission, and a Five-Star rating for overall      experiencing urgent changes in status via video.
                                                                                                                                quality by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
                                                                                                                                Services – placing Northwell Health Orzac Center for
                                                                                                                                Rehabilitation in the top 10% of all nursing facilities
                                                                                                                                in the country.

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