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| Diane Youd of Shelton. / Contributed photo |
BRIDGEPORT – Bridgeport Hospital
marked Nurses Week earlier this month with a series of recognition events and activities
for its 700-member nursing staff.
Diane
Youd of Shelton received the 2014 Nurse Manager of the Year Award from the
Bridgeport Hospital Medical Staff during a reception at Ralph and Rich’s
Restaurant in Bridgeport.
Youd oversees the SurgEase ambulatory surgery center
as well as the labor and delivery unit.
Chairman
of Anesthesia Kenneth Stone, M.D. and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology Harold
Sauer, M.D., were among those who paid tribute to Youd at the event.
“You
are dedicated to your role but have never lost sight of patient care,”
Stone said to Youd. “You have a real sense of your mission and treat your
colleagues in a respectful manner.”
“You
are fair and have earned the respect of both physicians and staff,” Sauer
added.
Youd
joined the hospital in 1985, working first in the main operating room. She
moved to SurgEase in 1990 and became the SurgEase nurse manager in 2005.
During
the past year, she took on the added role of interim nurse manager in labor and
delivery.
On
receiving the award, Youd said, “I never expected it. I’m truly grateful to the
medical staff for being recognized, and I thank the
entire team around me for their help and support. I could not succeed without
them.”
More
than a dozen other nurses were recognized for outstanding performance during
Bridgeport Hospital’s Professional Practice of Nursing Awards ceremony at the
hospital.
They included: Brooke
Barbee of Stratford, Cardiology; Kara Burdick of Bridgeport, Internal Medicine;
Tobias Breuing of Newtown and Karen Reyes-Benzi of East Haven, Oncology; Cecilia
Coehlo of Seymour, Major Surgery; Ken Forte of Milford and Marlene Schmidt of
Shelton, Emergency Department; Dana Genarelli of Oakville, Operating Room; Jim
Haddon of New Haven, Psychiatry; Britany Najarian of Shelton, Yale-New Haven
Children’s Hospital Bridgeport campus; Laura Neumon of Milford, Ahlbin Centers
Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit; Jessica Orama of Newtown, Resource Support Unit;
and Dorett Thomas of Bridgeport, Women’s Care Center.
“I
believe I lead one of the strongest nursing teams in the nation,” Chief Nursing
Officer MaryEllen Kosturko said at the ceremony. “I thank you from the bottom
of my heart for all the work you do.”
This post is taken from a press release from Bridgeport Hospital, part of Yale New Haven Health System.
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