Southampton Hospital Maternity Center Nurse Patricia Wright Honored

Three of Southampton Hospital’s maternity nurses were among this year’s nominees as the finest maternity nurses in Nassau and Suffolk County. The winner of the 2014 Nurse of Excellence Award is Patricia Wright, RN, a nurse in Southampton Hospital’s Kathleen D. Allen Maternity Center.

The women were nominated when nurses from across the two counties gathered on May 21 at a ceremony at the Woodbury Country Club to bestow recognition to colleagues at the Nurse of Excellence Award Ceremony hosted by the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC).

The nominees included, (from left to right in the photo) Patricia Darcey, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and VP of Patient Care Services at Southampton Hospital and Chair of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council Nurse Executives Committee; Patricia Wright, RN, Southampton Hospital, Nurse of Excellence Award Winner; Betty Commander, RN, Nurse Manager of Southampton Hospital’s Kathleen D. Allen Maternity Center and Valerie Terzano RN, Senior VP of Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer, Winthrop-University Hospital who was nominated for special excellence in the performance of her work as a member of the NSHC Nurse of Excellence Sub-committee.