Ms. Edelman has been with Blue Bell since May 2008, during the center's construction phase. She has been a nurse for 32 years and began her career in medical surgical nursing and high-risk obstetrics. Her first management role was as assistant nurse manager at Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center's short procedure unit and admission discharge unit. Ms. Edelman has held other leadership roles at a community hospital in the short procedure unit, PACU and ambulatory care unit and at an endoscopy suite and center.
By adding mobile lab services and in-house pre-admission testing, Ms. Edelman says, her center has been able to support patient convenience and satisfaction while allowing the center to retrieve proper pre-admission information. "Our clinical staff delivers exceptional quality care under the direction of our clinical manager," she says. "The facility overall has 99 percent patient satisfaction, functions efficiently and maintains significant cost savings measures."
Ms. Edelman says her energetic, resourceful, dedicated staff is what she enjoys most about working at Blue Bell. "They are all part of my success, my challenges and the reason this center is a success. I am very proud of all their accomplishments, and together we feel as if we have given birth to something very special," she says.
Ambulatory surgery has provided Ms. Edelman with a job that provides variety and many chances for education, she says. "Every day is a challenge, and I learn something new. I am never bored because of all the many hats I wear."
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