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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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