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NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING Heroism has been the baseline in 2020 for Johns Hopkins leaders NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING

Deborah Baker and
nurses affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Health
System. Even then, some have made singular
LeighAnn Sidone share
contributions to the effort against COVID-19
while maintaining the unmatched excellence
perspectives on the fight
across the board for which Johns Hopkins is
known. This year, for An Evening with the Stars,
of their lives for the series
a number of nurses were singled out as COVID
Star Nurses. (Lara Street of Nelson 5 chose to
single out her entire unit. Several colleagues are
photographed here.) Congratulations to all.
COVID Star Nurses ‘Reflections of a CNO’

To LeighAnn Sidone, CNO and at Suburban or many other the virus as much as possible,”
SUZANNE MAURIS now acting president of the hospitals. Already, her staff had Baker explains.
HOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL 223-bed Suburban Hospital in been asked to work to exhaustion,
Bethesda, her facility is “a little across unfamiliar units, in an Having weathered the initial
AMY OLSON hidden gem where you can get atmosphere of uncertainty if not surge, and with a new one likely
ALL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL outright fear. And she made a to coincide with the onset of flu
HERO’S CATHY CLARK support staff would be the ones to even more ready. “This time
season, Baker and her team stood
decision: Neither floor nurses nor
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL
we are really focused on being
transport COVID victims to these
trailers—they would focus on the
able to treat COVID patients
FADWA NATOUR
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL living, and on keeping themselves without having to shut down
safe. Sidone herself, with other
other areas of our hospitals. We
WELCOME IOANNA SANBORN It is an episode she says she provide emergency care and treat
38 hospital leaders, would lead the want to maintain full capacity to 39
somber exercise.
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL
VICTORIA MORRIS
won’t ever forget, and she’s sure
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL her team won’t either.
LARA STREET/NELSON 5 NURSING Deborah Baker, senior vice
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL president of nursing for Johns
complex care close to home.” It’s Hopkins Health System and
KAITLAN BAKER a quaint if right-on description of vice president of nursing
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL a place where “a unique culture and patient care services at
and spirit” makes Sidone the Johns Hopkins Hospital, saw
JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING FALL/WINTER 2020
LISA PUETT head of a health care family as very early that COVID-19
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL much as a boss. Then an outbreak would test her organization,
of COVID-19 in Montgomery and that the world would be
HEATHER THORNTON County threatened to tear that looking to Johns Hopkins for
JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER community fabric to shreds. how to respond. She and her
leadership team left no room
ANNIE DUREMDES Sidone remembers the for missteps or misinterpretation. patients with chronic conditions.
JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER refrigerated “morgue” trucks “When the COVID-19 pandemic So we will continue to observe
showing up outside the hospital, broke out, we shut down certain safety protocols and build our
JAYDEE ENCARNACION standing ready for a number parts of the hospital so we could capacity to treat all patients who MAGAZINE.NURSING.JHU.EDU
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL of deaths previously unseen treat COVID patients and contain need care.” ◼

MARCUS QUIAOIT Read more “Reflections of a CNO” at
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/bakercno