BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Nurse practitioner Shiny Mathew never seeks recognition and always give great praise to her team. She said she was pleasantly surprised when she discovered she was nominated, much less awarded, for her work at The New Jewish Home.
Mathew, a Paramus resident, recently received the United Hospital Fund’s Excellence in Health Care Award honoring health care providers for “extraordinary personal leadership to improve quality of care, patient safety and experience.”
“There is no one who deserves this recognition more than Shiny,” said Ruth Spinner, senior medical director at The New Jewish Home, a senior health care system in New York City and Westchester. “(Shiny’s) medical expertise and dedication to our patients is critical to The New Jewish Home’s success.”
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Mathew, an adult care nurse who has worked with TNJH more than 20 years, had been instrumental in helping the nursing home earn New York’s first-ever accreditation for congestive heart failure. She helped the heart failure program earn Joint Commission accreditation — proof it meets rigorous standards — in 2017, and get re-accredited twice since, she said.
“Accreditation shows (the program) effectively integrates clinical guidelines to optimize care, and that we have adopted national standards,” Mathew said. She added that the accreditation process involved a lot of “legwork,” and communication across settings to complete, but that the work was worth it.
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Through Mathew’s leadership, medical director Spinner said, the heart failure program has grown and flourished, even during the past three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most experienced clinicians in the heart failure unit, Mathew also serves as head staff trainer on the condition.
“Her contributions have allowed us to provide much-needed care for a vulnerable and underserved older adult population in New York,” Spinner said.
Mathew is one of 64 honorees across the New York metropolitan region who were selected for their vision and accomplishments, said the United Hospital Fund, a philanthropic organization that focuses on improving health care in New York.
A New York University School of Medicine graduate, Mathew said she is proud and grateful to work at TNJH because she feels valued for her work.
She also, as an Indian immigrant, appreciates the nursing staff reflects the diverse patient population of New York, and that her fellow staff members are devoted to providing “compassionate care” to others.
“Working with this team is the best part of working here,” she said.
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