ENA Presents Lantern Award to 29 Emergency Depts

On Wednesday, the Emergency Nurses Association announced that 29 emergency departments are being honored with the prestigious ENA Lantern Award – the only award dedicated to showcasing EDs for their outstanding work.

“These emergency departments are doing so many remarkable improvements and initiatives and they deserve to be honored for their work,” said ENA President Jenn Schmitz, MSN, EMT-P, CEN, CPEN, CNML, FNP-C, NE-BC. “I look forward to meeting some of these emergency nurses in Denver and celebrating them for their incredible achievement.”

The ENA Lantern Award was created to recognize emergency departments that demonstrate exceptional and innovative performance in leadership, practice, education, advocacy, and research. When applying, emergency departments share stories that highlight their commitment to care, and the initiatives put in place that improve the well-being of nursing staff. Applications are reviewed and recipients are selected by the ENA Lantern Award Committee.

There are many noteworthy accomplishments from this year’s honorees including improved collaboration between nurses and physicians; developing new flow areas in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; creating a simulation program to help emergency nurses better prepare for pediatric patients, and undertaking a significant quality improvement project to create a more age-friendly emergency department.

The 2022 ENA Lantern Award recipients are:

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Emergency Department – Barrington, Illinois
Bethesda North Hospital Emergency Department – TriHealth – Cincinnati, Ohio
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite Emergency Department – Atlanta, Georgia
Chilton Medical Center Emergency Department – Pompton Plains, New Jersey
Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center Emergency Department – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital Emergency Department – Medina, Ohio
Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida Emergency Department – Fort Myers, Florida
Good Samaritan Hospital Emergency Department – TriHealth – Cincinnati, Ohio
Gulf Coast Medical Center Emergency Department – Fort Myers, Florida
Huntington Hospital Reichert Emergency Department – Huntington, New York
Inspira Medical Center Vineland Emergency Department – Vineland, New York
Lenox Health Greenwich Village Emergency Department – New York, New York
Lenox Hill Hospital Emergency Department – New York, New York
Maine Medical Center Emergency Department – Portland, Maine
Mather Hospital Northwell Health – Emergency Department – Port Jefferson, New York
Monmouth Medical Center Emergency Department – RWJBarnabas Health – Long Branch, New Jersey
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware – Emergency Department – Wilmington, Delaware
Northern Westchester Hospital Emergency Department – Mount Kisco, New York
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Emergency Department – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla Emergency Department – La Jolla, California
Seattle Children’s Hospital Emergency Department – Seattle, Washington
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Fort Thomas Emergency Department – Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Staten Island University Hospital North Emergency Department – Northwell Health – Staten Island, New York
Staten Island University Hospital Prince’s Bay Emergency Department – Staten Island, New York
The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department – New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Valley of Hospital’s David F. Bolger Emergency Department – Ridgewood, New Jersey
University of Kansas Health System Emergency Department – Kansas City, Kansas
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Emergency Department – Glendale, California
Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital Emergency Department – New Haven, Connecticut