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HHC nurses play a vital role in our organization’s ability to deliver quality, patient-centered care to the 1.4 million New Yorkers who rely on us for their healthcare every year. These awards recognize those exceptional nurses whose compassionate care and outstanding skill have inspired their colleagues to nominate them for HHC's Star of Excellence Awards. They are nurse professionals whose values and performance best represent important areas where nursing leadership has made all the difference: patient outcomes, teamwork, mentoring, community service and volunteerism.  | | Excellence in Home, Community and Ambulatory Care - Marcia Phillips, RN at Harlem Hospital Center, for her work in supervising the home visiting services provided for first time mothers. |
 | | Professional Management -- Alma Pamandanan-Pierson, RN at Bellevue Hospital, for leading changes in care delivery that has resulted in a decrease in the readmission rate of patients with congestive heart failure. |
 | | Volunteerism and Service -- Elsykutty Mathew, RN, for the selfless service she brings to the wider community in addition to her dedicated work at Coler-Goldwater. |
|  | | Excellence in Clinical Nursing -- Christine Iwanicki, RN, for her outstanding work in the Coronary Care Cardiovascular unit at Coney Island Hospital. |
 | | Education and Mentorship -- Susan Domingo, RN, for her skills as an educator who guides the growth of new and current employees at Elmhurst Hospital Center. |
 | | Advancing and Leading the Profession -- Angela Grigg-Beeson, RN at Woodhull Medical Center, for her efforts to help transform the nursing practice, focus on collaboration among disciplines and improve outcomes. |
| | Team Award -- The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Bellevue Hospital, for demonstrating how effective teamwork is central to HHC's strategy to achieve excellence and for their unwavering commitment to quality care to benefit some of our most vulnerable patients. |  | | NICU Team at Bellevue Hospital |
| | NICHE Hospitals
Three HHC hospitals that have been designated as Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) facilities, "senior-friendly" hospitals designed to meet the special needs of hospitalized elder adults. More than 100 nurses and healthcare professionals at these three institutions have already begun to adopt age-sensitive, patient-centered best practices in elder care to help improve the health status of New Yorkers 65 years of age and older.  | | NICHE at Harlem Hospital Center |
|  | | NICHE at North Bronx Hospital |
|  | | NICHE at Queens Hospital Center |
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