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Lisa Lisle Wins Maryland Emergency Nursing Award
EASTON, Md. – Lisa Lisle, MSN, RN, CEN, Clinical Nurse Coordinator, University of Maryland Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown and EMS Base Station Coordinator for UM Shore Regional Health, was honored as Maryland Emergency Nurses Association Emergency Nurse of the Year by the Maryland Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The award was presented to Lisle by Michael A. Silverman, MD, FACEP, President of the Maryland Chapter of ACEP, at the annual Maryland ACEP conference.
Mary Alice Vanhoy, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, NRP, FAEN, Nurse Manager, UM Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown, submitted Lisle’s nomination with the support of UM Shore Regional Health emergency nurses and physicians. The award is designed to recognize the recipient as a “leader who serves to motivate, inspire and challenge her team while promoting others to maximize their strengths and look at weaknesses as opportunities to grow.”
“Lisa epitomizes the spirit of the Emergency Nurse of the Year Award,” said Vanhoy. “Her compassion, knowledge and dedication to emergency nursing is inspiring to all.”
“In emergency nursing, we have the ability to significantly impact the lives of our patients and their families every day,” said Lisle. “That knowledge is inspirational to all of us working in the field. I am deeply honored to be selected for this prestigious award.”
Vanhoy won the award in 2001 and 2018, and previous UM Shore Regional Health winners include Ashley Baynard, RN, in 2017 and Cathy Weber, BSN, RN, CEN (retired) in 2016.
Mary Alice Vanhoy, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, NRP, FAEN, Nurse Manager, UM Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown; 2023 Emergency Nurse of the Year Lisa Lisle, MSN, RN, CEN; and Maryland Emergency Medicine Network-Eastern Shore emergency care physicians Kevin Pearl, MD and Eric Klotz, MD
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
As part of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. UM Shore Regional Health’s team of more than 2,200 employees, medical staff, board members and volunteers works with various community partners to fulfill the organization’s mission of Creating Healthier Communities Together.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of 10 University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.