Middletown, NY – Orange Regional Medical Center is pleased to announce the Lisa Rivera, RN, BSN as Program Manager of the Bone and Joint Center.
In her new role, Ms. Rivera is responsible for the clinical management of the Total Joint Replacement, Orthopedic, and Spine surgery programs. Her responsibilities include the development, management and updates to the programs’ clinical steps through all phases of care, patient and caregiver education, and continuous performance enhancement programs.
Ms. Rivera has been employed as a Registered Nurse with Orange Regional for 16 years and has been a member of the Total Joint Replacement (TJR) program since 2016. In her previous role as Orthopedic Nurse Navigator in the Bone and Joint Center, Ms. Rivera was instrumental in enhancing the TJR patient education program, preparing TJR patients for surgery and assisting patients through all phases of TJR care.
Ms. Rivera played a key role in the successful certification in 2018 of Orange Regional’s TJR program by DNV, a world-leading certification body that helps businesses assure the performance of their organizations, products, people, facilities and supply chains through certification, verification, assessment, and training services.
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About Orange Regional Medical Center
Orange Regional 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 Orange Regional include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Orange Regional Medical Group with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Orange Regional 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™. Orange Regional also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 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. In 2017, Orange Regional was named the Most Beautiful Hospital in the US and is recognized by US News & World Report as a Best Regional Hospital. It is a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7; the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS), which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2018 and 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about ORMC, visit www.ormc.org.
