Tribute to Excellence Journal 2023 - Flipbook - Page 29
2023 Quality Improvement Champions
Joy A. McIlvaine, MS, RN, NPD-BC, ANP-BC, L.Ac.
Director Patient Care Services, Quality, Standards &
Practice
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
For her tireless commitment to quality in nursing, and
for leading a project to improve hand hygiene by
enlisting front-line staff to design and implement
significant interventions that have led to steady
improvement in baseline averages, from 67 percent in
2018 to 94 percent today.
Maureen Miller, MSN, FNP-BC, RNC-OB, C-EFM, RN
Maternal Child Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital
For delivering exemplary care to Maternal Child Health
patients, including evidence-based efforts to improve
the response to obstetrical hemorrhage and quantitative
blood loss, decreasing mortality related to severe
hypertension in pregnancy, and enhancing newborn
outcomes.
Irina Mitzner, RN, MSN
Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and
Nurse Executive
Northwell Health At Home
For her leadership of clinical services for the Health At
Home program, which led to an exponential increase in
patient home visits and decreased hospital admissions
stays during the pandemic, while continuing to achieve
historically high patient quality outcomes.
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