South Nassau RN

Awards & Honors

At 13th Annual Dinner and Gala for the Queens-Long Island Chapter of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPIQLI), from left, are Joseph A. Quagliata, president and chief executive, South Nassau Hospital; T.K.S.Rao, M.D., past president, AAPIQLI; Yvette Mooney, R.N., senior vice president of patient care services, South Nassau Hospital; and Rajeev Vohra, M.D., president of AAPIQLI, South Nassau’s director of minimally invasive and bariatric surgery.

Metro Area Asian-Indian Physicians Honor South Nassau’s Yvette Mooney

South Nassau Hospital’s senior vice president of patient care services Yvette Mooney, R.N., was the 2007 honoree of the 13th Annual Dinner and Gala for the Queens-Long Island Chapter of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPIQLI). Ms. Mooney was cited for her leadership in establishing recruitment and training programs that have enabled Asian-Indian professionals to pursue and forge rewarding careers in health care.

The 2003 recipient of the Town of Hempstead’s Pathfinder Award, Ms. Mooney has more than 30 years of patient care and nursing administration experience. She is responsible for planning and coordinating the delivery of nursing care to patients in the hospital and for the application of uniform standards of care throughout the organization. Ms. Mooney’s areas of responsibility include nurse recruitment, retention, education and performance improvement; perioperative services; emergency services; interventional cardiology; and dialysis services.

She founded South Nassau Nursing Solutions (SNNS), which links health care professionals with hospitals that need experienced and qualified nurses. SNNS is based on the successful international recruiting and staffing program that she established for South Nassau to maintain a stable nurse-to-patient ratio.