Middletown, NY – Garnet Health Medical Center, formerly Orange Regional Medical Center, is pleased to announce Lisa Konopko, MPH, MSN, RN, RNC-NIC as Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) /Mother/Baby Unit Nursing Director and Sheila Moreau, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM as Nursing Unit Director of Labor & Delivery at the Rowley Family Birthing Center.
In her role as NICU/Mother Baby Unit Nursing Director, Ms. Konopko is responsible for the Level ll NICU with 10 beds and one isolation room. The NICU provides comprehensive care of moderate to high risk newborns requiring observation, stabilization and care management. In addition, Garnet Health Medical Center’s Mother Baby Unit offers 23 beds for antepartum (before childbirth) and post-partum (after childbirth).
Ms. Konopko manages the team of registered nurses and support staff who work in both the NICU and Mother Baby units. She began her career in the NICU at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital and later worked in the NICU at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY. She was previously Nurse Manager of Ambulatory Women’s Health at Mount Sinai and most recently as Director of Nursing for the City of Stamford, CT.
Ms. Konopko is certified in Neonatal Intensive Care and LEAN Six Sigma Healthcare Training, which reduces medical errors and improves medical outcomes. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the New York Academy of Medicine.
Ms. Moreau is responsible for oversight and operations in the Labor and Delivery Unit, which has 12 beds, two operating rooms, and two post-anesthesia care beds. In addition, she manages the team of registered nurses and support staff who work in the Labor and Delivery and the Mother/Baby Units.
Ms. Moreau was previously Nurse Manager of the Rowley Family Birthing Center and NICU.
She began her career as a staff nurse at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell. She obtained a degree in Nursing from State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master’s degree in Nursing from University of Phoenix.
Ms. Moreau has 28 years of clinical experience, academic nursing instruction and childbirth education. She maintains certifications in Electronic Fetal Monitoring and Inpatient Obstetrics.
To learn more about career opportunities at Garnet Health Medical Center, visit www.garnethealth.org/careers.
About Garnet Health Medical Center
Garnet Health Medical Center features seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs approximately 3,300 healthcare professionals. In addition to inpatient services, highlights of Garnet Health Medical Center include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Garnet Health Doctors with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Garnet Health Medical Center was named by Healthgrades as one of the 100 best hospitals nationally for cardiac intervention and General Surgery and was a recipient of the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Garnet Health Medical Center also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 and 2020 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ placing the hospital in the top 5 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals assessed nationwide for its superior clinical performance. It is a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing; a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7 which is the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Garnet Health Medical Center is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of Garnet Health, its corporate parent, which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2018 and 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about Garnet Health Medical Center, visit garnethealth.org.
