Jersey City, NJ — Jersey City Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, celebrated its Annual Nursing Awards. Each year, JCMC’s nursing staff nominates their peers whose performance exemplify the characteristics under various criteria, including Transformational Leadership, Exemplary Professional Practice, Structural Empowerment, New Knowledge Innovations and Improvement, and Empirical Outcomes. Patient care technicians also nominate peers who exemplify the highest standards of patient care for the Excellence and Care award. Additional colleagues are also honored with the Interprofessional Collaboration award.
“As a Magnet-recognized health care institution, every member of our nursing team is inspired to achieve excellence every day and to provide our community with the highest level of care. We are so proud of nurses who are as compassionate as they are highly-skilled,” said Margaret Ames, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care Services.
Congratulations to the 2023 winners:
- Empirical Outcomes – Freedom Villafuerte, BSN, RN
- Exemplary Professional Practice – Eric Dworsky, BSN, RN
- Interprofessional Collaboration – Dr. Richard Savel, Internal Medicine, Chair of the Department of Medicine
- New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements – Kristy Fernandez, BSN, RN
- Structural Empowerment – Amanda Tobias, BSN, RN
- Partners in Excellence and Care – Simeon Sharpe
- Transformational Leadership – Michele Zaorski, MSN, RN
Jersey City Medical Center has achieved the Magnet Recognition designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for four consecutive times, for meeting rigorous standards for nursing excellence.
About Jersey City Medical Center
Jersey City Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is Healing, Enhancing, and Investing in Hudson County. It is a comprehensive full-service acute and sub-acute care 348-bed teaching hospital. A not-for-profit hospital, the Medical Center is a state-designated Level II Regional Trauma Center with close to 16,000 admissions and over 80,000 Emergency Department visits annually. The hospital specialty services include women’s health, orthopedics, heart and vascular care, and behavioral health. JCMC is the only full-service heart hospital in Hudson County, offering access to outstanding cardiologists and sophisticated and advanced treatments, such as cardiac surgery and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacements (TAVR). RWJBarnabas Health and Jersey City Medical Center are in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. JCMC is an American Heart Association Gold Plus and DNV certified Primary Stroke Center. It is a regional comprehensive cardiac center, a perinatal intensive care center, a regional level 3 neonatal intensive care unit for critically ill newborns, and home to the most advanced robotic-assisted surgical program in Hudson County. JCMC, a provider of Advanced Life Support for Hudson County, runs 911 Medical Call Screening for Hudson County and operates one of the state’s busiest EMS.
Contact: Veronica Lavarro
Office: 201-395-7569
Mobile: 201-912-5143
E-mail: veronica.lavarro@rwjbh.org