Overlook Medical Center Emergency Services, Summit Campus Recognized for Excellence in Emergency Nursing

SUMMIT, NJ – The emergency department at Overlook Medical Center’s main campus in Summit has been selected as a recipient of the Emergency Nurses Association’s 2024 Lantern Award® for demonstrating excellence in leadership, practice, education, advocacy and research performance.

The Lantern Award showcases the Overlook Medical Center Emergency Services, Summit Campus’s accomplishments in incorporating evidence-based practice and innovation into emergency care. As part of the application, EDs are encouraged to share stories that highlight a commitment to patient care, as well as the well-being of nursing staff. The award serves as a visible symbol of Overlook’s commitment to quality, safety and a healthy work environment.

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Overlook’s Summit emergency department is one of 94 EDs nationwide recognized in 2024. The award lasts for a three-year cycle, after which emergency departments are eligible to apply again.

This is the Summit ED’s second consecutive award cycle. Overlook’s satellite ED in Union, which is seamlessly connected to the Summit ED, is also the only emergency department in the world to receive the Emergency Nurses Association’s Lantern Award for every three-year cycle since the award’s inception in 2011. Union received its most recent Lantern Award in 2023.

“I am incredibly proud of the care, research and collaboration the emergency department team at Overlook Medical Center consistently provides to our communities,” said Heather A. Veltre, DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Officer at Overlook Medical Center. “The multiple consecutive Lantern Award honors for our team by the Emergency Nurses Association further validate our commitment to excellence”.

“The collaboration between our emergency department’s physicians and nurses is the key to the exemplary outcomes we achieve for our patients,” said Andre Bonnet, MD, interim chair of emergency medicine. “Our nurses’ high level of practice and their dedication to quality improvement consistently raise the bar of care at Overlook.”

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Overlook’s Lantern Award will be on display in the Summit emergency department. As a recipient, Overlook Medical Center Emergency Services, Summit Campus will be recognized in upcoming ENA publications, on the ENA website and during Emergency Nursing 2024, the association’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Sept. 4-7. For more information on this year’s Lantern Award recipients, visit the Emergency Nurses Association website.

About the Emergency Nurses Association

The Emergency Nurses Association is the premier professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing through advocacy, education, research, innovation, and leadership. Founded in 1970, ENA has proven to be an indispensable resource to the global emergency nursing community. With nearly 50,000 members worldwide, ENA advocates for patient safety, develops industry-leading practice standards and guidelines and guides emergency health care public policy. ENA members have expertise in triage, patient care, disaster preparedness and all aspects of emergency care. Additional information is available at www.ena.org .

The Emergency Nurses Association bestows the Lantern Award on emergency departments that exemplify exceptional practice and innovative performance in the core areas of nursing leadership, practice, education, advocacy, and research.

About Atlantic Health System

Atlantic Health System is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 20,000 team members and 5,440 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health System serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people.

The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including its seven hospitals: Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ, Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ, Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ, Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ, Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute in Madison, NJ and through its partnership with CentraState Healthcare System in Freehold, NJ.

The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with more than 1,700 physicians and advance practice providers. Joined with Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners they form part of Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network of more than 2,500 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ.

Atlantic Health System provides care for the full continuum of health care needs through 27 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Anywhere Virtual Visits. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.

Atlantic Health System leads the Healthcare Transformation Consortium, a partnership of six regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability, has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Morristown and Overlook Medical Centers, and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets.

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