Alice Taylor, a registered nurse who first joined UR Medicine Thompson Health over a decade ago, is the system’s new stroke/STEMI/sepsis coordinator. In her role, she will work within Thompson’s quality department to oversee improvement with regard to stroke, sepsis and STEMI, a particularly serious type of heart attack.
A lifelong Canandaigua resident and graduate of St. John Fisher University, Taylor began working as a labor-delivery-newborn nurse in F.F. Thompson Hospital’s birthing center in 2012. She was a perinatal data specialist and the newborn hearing program coordinator from 2017 through 2021. In addition, she trained as a sexual assault nurse examiner for Thompson’s emergency department.
During the pandemic, Taylor worked on all of the medical-surgical floors in the hospital in addition to remaining in the birthing center. She transferred to Thompson’s ICU in September 2021.
“Her drive and initiative will help us further develop vital programs to benefit our community,” said Wendy Blakemore, Thompson Health director of quality, patient Safety and utilization management
F.F. Thompson Hospital is a New York State Department of Health-designated stroke center and recipient of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally accepted, research-based guidelines.