‘This baby just couldn’t wait!’ First Staten Island babies of 2021 born amidst pandemic
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
Faith Rizkalla gave birth to Joseph Beshouy Rizkalla, on New Year s Day. (Courtesy of Faith Rizkalla)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In addition to the shouts of “Happy New Year,” the cries of a newborn baby boy echoed through the halls of Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) on Friday morning.
Pleasant Plains parents, Faith and Beshouy Rizkalla, welcomed Joseph Beshouy Rizkalla at 7:42 a.m., weighing 6 pounds and 10 ounces. He was born premature and sent to the intensive care unit, but is in stable condition. He is the second child of the couple and was the first baby of the New Year at the hospital.
A hiker in Connecticut recalled his close encounter with an injured bald eagle and his comical effort to rescue it before Wednesday s snowstorm.
Santa took toys to the children in the hospital s pediatric unit, something health care workers say is much appreciated. Kids just light up they do this every year and when they come to the floor you see the costumes and how great they look and the kids just light up turns around their whole stay, pediatric nurse manager Joann Stuart said.
While Santa usually hands off the toys to the children himself, COVID precautions prevented that this year.
Dedicated health-care professional led staff through darkest hours: ‘I never questioned what had to be done’
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Rosemarie Stazzone is the chief operating officer and chief nursing officer at Richmond University Medical Center. She is being honored as part of this year s Advance Women of Achievement 2020 – The Front Line.Rosemarie Stazzone
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Editor’s note: The Staten Island Advance/SILive.com is proud to dedicate its annual Women of Achievement program, established in 1964 and celebrated every year since, to local heroes; we are calling it Staten Island Women of Achievement 2020 – The Front Line. When we put out a call for nominations, we received many heartfelt words about these brave women, who have made such a difference in our community throughout the coronavirus pandemic. We are publishing parts of some of these nominations, as they are the true voices of the impact of these true heroes. Congratulations to this
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The Greater New York Hospital Association has launched an intensive care unit cross-training initiative for independent safety-net hospitals aimed at strengthening the city s health care delivery system, the organization told
Crain s Thursday.
The association will provide critical care training to non-ICU physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it said, with the goal of supporting internal capacity for another surge of Covid-19 patients and other emergencies.
Lorraine Ryan, senior vice president of legal, regulatory, and professional affairs at the association, noted that staffing is essential. In the early days of the pandemic, the city was able to turn to outside resources to bolster staff. In anticipation of a second wave, we knew we couldn t re