Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab Is a Beacon of Excellence
American Association of Critical Care Nurses National Beacon Award recognizes exceptional patient care, healthy work environment
Posted: Aug. 28, 2024
Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory was recently presented the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) gold-level Beacon Award for Excellence for providing exceptional patient care in a healthy work environment.
To earn the three-year, three-level award (with gold, silver, or bronze designation), the lab’s staff demonstrated that it is aligned with the six AACN Healthy Work Environment Standards (skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision-making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition, and authentic leadership) while meeting patient care and work environment criteria that are consistent with the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program®, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and the National Quality Healthcare Award.
“We are relentless in our pursuit to raise the standards for quality, safety, outcomes, and patient experience,” said Adhi Sharma, MD, President, Mount Sinai South Nassau. “I commend our Cardiac Catheterization Lab’s nurses and entire interdisciplinary team for this achievement.”
“Communication, collaboration, and teamwork are hallmarks of quality patient care,” said Stacey Conklin, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services. “Our Cardiac Catheterization Lab team puts patients first and uses evidence-based practices to improve patient and family outcomes. They are most-deserving of this Beacon Gold Award.”
Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab earned the award by meeting the following evidence-based Beacon Award for Excellence criteria:
- Leadership structures and systems
- Appropriate staffing and staff engagement
- Effective communication, knowledge management, and learning and development
- Evidence-based practice and processes
- Outcome measurement
In addition to this award, Mount Sinai South Nassau was recently ranked “High Performing” in heart failure and heart attack by U.S. News & World Report®. It is also a recipient of the Healthgrades Excellence Award for Coronary Intervention and Five-Star rating for Coronary Interventional Procedures while earning a place on the Healthgrades listing of the top 10 percent in the nation for Coronary Interventional Procedures. Designated a four-star achiever by the American College of Cardiology, the hospital has also been awarded the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Heart Failure and Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll designation.
The only Long Island location of the internationally acclaimed Mount Sinai Fuster Heart, Mount Sinai South Nassau provides patients access to a network of board-certified cardiologists and cardiac surgeons who use the latest advancements in cardiac care to treat the range of cardiovascular conditions, from coronary artery disease to atrial fibrillation. If more advanced treatment is needed, such as a heart transplantation, Mount Sinai South Nassau patients can be seamlessly treated at The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
Mount Sinai South Nassau’s cardiology suite features two state-of-the-art digital Cardiac Catheterization laboratories and an Electrophysiology Laboratory and is equipped with the latest advancements to perform coronary stenting, vascular along with interventional procedures and ablations and pacemaker and defibrillator implantations.
About Mount Sinai South Nassau
The Long Island flagship hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai South Nassau is designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for outstanding nursing care. Mount Sinai South Nassau is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,500 employees. Located in Oceanside, New York, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health, and emergency services and operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County, along with Long Island’s only free-standing Emergency Department in Long Beach.
In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, Mount Sinai South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and offers Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. Mount Sinai South Nassau operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County verified by the American College of Surgeons as well as Long Island’s only free-standing, 911-receiving Emergency Department in Long Beach. Mount Sinai South Nassau also is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons; is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program; and an Infectious Diseases Society of America Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. For more information, go to www.mountsinai.org/southnassau.