Ms. Mary Weiner

"The main thing that changed from the old endoscopy is we put all our video monitors on Skytron, on a boom; it's a tower suspended by the ceiling, and it keeps everything organized," says Mary Wiener, BSN, NPA, assistant vice president for perioperative services at South Nassau Communities Hospital, which now provides endoscopy services in an expanded and redesigned endoscopy suite.

The new design "keeps wires off the floors; the air, oxygen and suction are on the opposing boom.It helps the procedure, whether it's upper or lower endoscopy because they rotate from 180 degrees to almost 360 degrees," she says.

That was not the only element that changed.Turnover time is excellent, says Wiener.
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Wiener explains."At the end of the lease, you can roll the lease over or buy the equipment.You have lots of options, so that enabled us at that time to increase our inventory of scopes, and we didn't have to use loaners or rent any scopes."

An upgraded design was another change - there are three individual procedure rooms, with the admission function separated from the recovery function."When patients are admitted, they go to a four-bedded admitting room, with individual cubicles, telephones and TVs.Then they go into the procedure room, then back to a separate recovery room on the other side of the hall," Wiener says.

Mary Weiner, Assistant Vice President, Peri-Operative Services
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Mary Weiner, RNAssistant Vice President, Patient Care Services

Ms. Weiner is charged with ensuring the delivery of quality in both Cardiac & Perioperative Services.Ms. Weiner is responsible for the Operating Room, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Pain Management, Endoscopy Unit, Ambulatory Surgery Unit, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Electrophysiology Laboratory, Cardiovascular Laboratory, as well as Central Sterile Reprocessing.

Mary Weiner
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Mary Weiner, RN Assistant Vice President, Perioperative Services Charged with ensuring the delivery of quality perioperative nursing care, Ms. Weiner is responsible for the Operating Room, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Endoscopy Unit, Ambulatory Surgery Unit, Center for Cardiovascular Health, Electrophysiology Laboratory, and Central Sterile Reprocessing.