Mount Sinai Nursing Units Receive Award for Excellent Critical Care
The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and Transplant Intensive Care Unit (TICU) have received the Silver-level American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Beacon Award for Excellence. Under the leadership of Mardisa Samson-Ramos, MSN, BSN, RN, the nurses earned this honor through their exceptional teamwork.
The Silver-level AACN Beacon Award for Excellence is given to hospitals that provide continual learning and an effective approach to nursing policies, procedures, and processes by engaging staff and key stakeholders along with achieving optimal patient care.
The SICU is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of critical care specialists who have extensive experience managing critically ill patients in a high-risk, fast-paced environment. The TICU specializes in caring for patients with acute and chronic liver failure as well as patients requiring liver, kidney, small bowel, and bone marrow transplants. The TICU also serves as a referral center for neighboring hospitals to assist in providing a higher level of care required for critically ill patients.
“I would like to extend my congratulations to the SICU and TICU nurses at The Mount Sinai Hospital for this esteemed award,” said Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Senior Vice President, Cardiac Services, Mount Sinai Health System. “This is a testament to the exceptional teamwork of both these units, their exemplary patient care, and leadership. The Beacon Award for Excellence recognizes those caregivers who are efficient, dedicated, and practice patient care safely while improving along the way.”
“I’m so proud of both the SICU and TICU at The Mount Sinai Hospital,” said Ms. Samson-Ramos, Clinical Nurse Manager, Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Transplant Intensive Care Unit. “We wouldn’t have received this honor without the collaborative effort from all nurses within these units and their devotion to those patients needing critical care, especially during these past two years. I commend all of my colleagues for their hard work in continuing to find a way to make Mount Sinai one of the best hospitals in the country.”
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. Its comprehensive system includes seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing. Together, the Health System comprises approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York by Newsweek and No. 5 on the magazine’s World’s Best Hospitals list. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.