This Ladies’s Historical past Month we will probably be highlighting the ladies of our group who make sure the well-being of our sufferers and our workers. These girls are trailblazing the way in which to assist girls make their well being and life a precedence. Thanks to every of those girls for his or her dedication to offering our sufferers and workers with the absolute best care.
Penny Diamond
Sr. Accounting Specialist
For greater than 14 years, Senior Accountant Penny Diamond has labored at Girl’s guaranteeing affected person accounts are updated and correct after receiving care. Penny was first launched to the healthcare business as a youngster when she volunteered as a “Sweet Striper.” This actually impressed her to pursue her personal profession serving to sufferers by way of her work in accounting. “I really like the sensation that I’m making a distinction for different girls, even in a small manner,” Penny stated.
Why did you determine to work in girls’s well being?
I used to be a volunteer at a hospital once I was a youngster. They known as us “sweet stripers” at the moment. I turned fascinated with every little thing that goes on within the numerous departments of a hospital.
Why is it essential for ladies to work in girls’s well being?
As girls, we’re the most effective advocates for different girls. We will communicate up from a womans’ perspective and perceive the complexities of the feminine physique.
What do you like most about working in girls’s well being?
I like to really feel that I’m making a distinction for different girls, even in a small manner. With out correct monetary reporting, a hospital would stop to exist primarily within the ever-changing healthcare setting.
Working in healthcare has many dynamic features. Often, when many people consider a hospital or healthcare, we consider docs, nurses, and people who present direct affected person care. Nevertheless, it takes a complete crew throughout numerous departments to make sure that our sufferers are receiving high quality care. Click on right here if you’re taken with making a distinction in sufferers’ lives at Girl’s Hospital.
Neelima Sukhavasi, MD
Assistant Professor, OB/GYN
Affiliate Residency Program Director, LSU OB/GYN Residency Program
Dr. Neelima Sukhavasi will not be solely a working towards OB/GYN she can be an educator to our future OB/GYNs. Dr. Sukhavasi has been on the LSU OB/GYN Clinic at Girl’s Hospital since September 2018. Her predominant function is supervising the resident physicians as they see sufferers in our clinic, evaluation middle, labor and supply, and working rooms. Moreover, she “assists them with affected person visits, delivering infants, surgical operations, and general ensuring these resident physicians are studying from each interplay whereas additionally taking the absolute best care of our sufferers.”
Why did you determine to work in girls’s Well being?
“I’ve all the time had an curiosity in matters associated to maternal and baby well being and reproductive justice. I’ve discovered that in the event you can educate a lady and assist her make reproductive selections that finest go well with her life targets, you not solely influence her life however that of her household, youngsters, and group.”
Why is it essential for ladies to work in girls’s well being?
“I feel girls usually tend to open up and be sincere with feminine suppliers. As girls, we will relate to what our sufferers are going by way of on a extra private degree and that helps us handle our sufferers in all features of their well being.”
What do you like most about working in girls’s well being?
“I really like that I get to expertise a few of the happiest occasions in a lady’s life with them, but additionally assist them by way of a few of their most susceptible moments. The sphere of OB/GYN is stuffed with ups and downs and you actually get to play an essential function in that a part of somebody’s life. Total, it’s very rewarding!”
Dr. Sukhavasi continues to share her medical abilities by way of educating the long run and bringing within the youngsters of our future, whereas offering the most effective care for ladies.
Nia’Ja Mack, FNP-C
Gynecologic Oncology Nurse Practitioner
Nia’Ja Mack is a Nurse Practitioner with in depth expertise in gynecologic oncology care. She started her nursing profession in 2013 as a registered nurse specializing in Med Surg/Oncology. Nia’Ja joined Girl’s Hospital in 2014 and have become a nurse practitioner in 2018. She supplies care to girls with gynecologic cancers and works intently with GYN oncologists to straight assist sufferers from the start of their most cancers journey by way of the surveillance interval. Moreover, she diagnoses and treats benign gynecological situations.
Nia’Ja supplies care to a affected person inhabitants who wants constant care from our workers whereas sustaining a excessive degree of belief in them, and she or he is devoted to “giving them a protected house to ask powerful or embarrassing questions.”
Why did you determine to work in girls’s well being?
“I’ve all the time had a peculiar curiosity in girls’s well being. I’m a lady and I can relate to different girls. There’s unstated confidence between girls. I wish to permit girls a chance to be susceptible and provides them a protected house to ask powerful or embarrassing questions. Ladies needs to be empowered to know and perceive their our bodies. I wish to educate girls and cut back their morbidity and mortality with preventative care.”
Why is it essential for ladies to work in girls’s well being?
“It’s important for ladies to work in girls’s well being as a result of we want an advocate and somebody to narrate to and perceive our points. Right here at Girl’s Hospital, girls have a few of their most joyous and troublesome moments. In each cases, girls deserve love and assist.”
What do you like most about working in girls’s well being?
“I really like the evolution of being a lady. I’m always studying, rising, and constructing new relationships. Our journey of being a lady or well being care supplier has no finish. Working in girls’s well being is a part of a real sisterhood. I assist my sufferers and so they assist me. It’s a every day reward to take care of all girls.”
Nia’Ja has devoted her skilled profession to the well-being of girls and continues to offer distinctive care to every affected person. If you need to schedule an appointment inside her specialty, please name (225) 216-3006.
Brooke Schoonenberg, MS, RDN, LDN
Supervisor Diet Providers
Brooke Schoonenberg is the supervisor of vitamin companies at Girl’s Hospital. She has been employed at Girl’s Hospital since June 2014. She primarily oversees the dietitians in all outpatient medical areas. Moreover, she designs, and implements, the standard enchancment of dietary applications on the Girl’s Middle for Wellness. Beneath Brooke shares her story about offering the most effective dietary care for ladies’s well being.
Why did you determine to work in girls’s Well being?
“Girl’s Hospital has fairly the fame as an excellent place to work and once I noticed a job opening, I knew it was a chance I needed to take. I really like instructing girls about vitamin and the way consuming a nutritious diet can influence your high quality of life in such an incredible manner. As a lady and a mother, I do know we are likely to put ourselves final so seeing girls put themselves first to be taught what is required to enhance their well being is extraordinarily gratifying.”
Why is it essential for ladies to work in girls’s well being?
“I don’t know if I can say this, but it surely takes one to know one. As girls, we perceive the emotions of fluctuating hormones, sleep deprivation postpartum, the problem of losing a few pounds, and the fixed want and want to “do all of it” – having one other girl to open up to and lean on is invaluable.”
What do you like most about working in girls’s well being?
“Listening to somebody say what a distinction you’ve made of their life, irrespective of how huge or small. Taking good care of somebody, who’s experiencing one thing I could have personally skilled myself. Serving to girls “do all of it” whereas maintaining themselves a high precedence.”
Brooke continues to work relentlessly to handle her sufferers and her workers. Should you could also be taken with discovering the most effective dietary choices particularly for you, please name 225-924-8705 to schedule a session with certainly one of our expert dietitians.
