May 04

Celebrating Our Nurses

Honoring 1,200+ RNs, APRNs and CRNAs, including 6 Nightingales, for Nurses Week

Meet our 2026 Nightingale Nurses
nurse handing colleague supplies in postop area

Dear Dr. Andy

Can something be done regarding the delay in getting radiology reports read? 

Indeed, help is on the way!

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Dr. Andy environmental portrait

Feature Photo

Celebration in Central Sterile

Meenawatty Torres and Volodymyr Levytskyy (holding scissors), two of UConn Health’s Sterile Processing Department’s supervisors, cut the ribbon to mark the reopening of their workspace in the Connecticut Tower, nearly three years in the making. Pictured on Torres’ left are (from left) Cathy Mayotte (from the vendor Steris), Ellen Benson (associate director), Laura Sederquest, and Ewa Pawlak, and to Levytskyy’s right are (from left) Derrick Weir, Luis Quinones-Lima, Karen Curley (senior director of nursing), John Lombardi (director of facilities engineering and sustainability), and Mike Shane (Steris).

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11 people in personal protective equipment gather for ribbon cutting in front of a "Grand Opening" sign indoors