St. Joseph’s Nurse Receives National Award

Syracuse, NY (September 15, 2016) – Liverpool resident Ann Yankay, BSN, RN, CEN is a nurse in the Emergency Department at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, she has received national recognition with the 2016 Nursing Practice and Professionalism Award from the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).

The ENA award recognition program recognizes not only exemplary professionals, but also exemplary emergency departments, talented and committed state leaders, and leaders active in the determination of health care policy.

Ann Yankay will be recognized and presented with the 2016 Nursing Practice and Professionalism Award this week during the Awards Gala at ENA's Emergency Nursing Conference in Los Angeles, California.

This award recognizes a nurse who exemplifies outstanding nursing practice as demonstrated through clinical skills, care and compassion. This nurse is recognized by peers as an expert in emergency nursing and consistently exhibits traits associated with professional behavior and commitment to professional values. This individual may demonstrate outstanding commitment to a specialty population such as pediatrics or older adults within the specialty of emergency nursing.

More information about the awards is available at www.ena.org/about/annualawards. And more information about St. Joseph’s Emergency care is available at www.sjhsyr.org/emergency.

About St. Joseph’s Health

St. Joseph’s Health is a non-profit regional health care system based in Syracuse, N.Y., providing services to patients throughout Central New York and northern Pennsylvania. From primary to specialty to home care, to our Magnet-recognized hospital, and in collaboration with our community partners, St. Joseph's Health is advancing the health of the communities we serve through an expanding range of healthcare services to ensure our patients achieve optimum long-term health. Ranked by Consumer Reports among the top 15 heart surgery centers in the country, U.S. News “Best Regional Hospital” and a 15-time winner of the National Research Corporation Consumer Choice award, St. Joseph’s is widely recognized for quality, value and delivering the highest patient satisfaction. St. Joseph’s Health is affiliated with Franciscan Companies and St. Joseph’s Physicians and is a part of Trinity Health.