Good Catch awardees receive recognition and a certificate of excellence based on their actions in preventing accidents from occurring. These actions may include keeping our facilities safe, correcting a medication order, preventing a patient from falling or reporting a significant change in a patient’s status.
Please join us in congratulating the following employees on their Good Catch:
1. Oleksandr Yakovenko, Specialist Biomedical Engineering- Jamaica Hospital
2. Elizabeth Garcia-Melendez, MSN Director of Nursing ED – Jamaica Hospital
3. Elias Panagiotakis, Manager of Biomedical Engineering – Jamaica Hospital
4. Kam-Ning Ou, RT -Jamaica Hospital
5. Magda Ortiz, Security Officer -Jamaica Hospital
6. Bickram Totaram, PCA – Jamaica Hospital
7. Cheryne Vanduyne, Nursing Attendant -Flushing Hospital
8. Charanjit Kaur, RN – Flushing Hospital
By identifying a problem before it became a patient safety issue, our awardees have helped our hospitals provide patients with excellent care. We thank them for being exemplary team members and contributing to our goal of being a high-reliability network.
