Miranda Toussaint
MONTEFIORE CONGRATULATES
OUR OWN MICHELLE SMITH-ALLEN
ON RECEIVING THE 2019 CARIBBEAN
AMERICAN HEALTHCARE AWARD
FROM CARIBBEAN LIFE.
Thank you for all of your hard work
and dedication to our community.
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HEALTHCARE AWARDS
Grenada-born Miranda Toussaint
is dedicated to excellence in
everything she does. A published
academic, she is also an ANCC
(American Nurses Credentialing Center)
board-certified family nurse practitioner,
a member of several esteemed
professional organizations, and a multiple
award winner.
Earning her Master’s Degree in
Nursing from SUNY Downstate Medical
Center, Toussaint began her nursing
career nursing career in the OB/
GYN unit at Kings County Hospital
more than 25 years ago. With her
extensive emergency care experience,
she currently provides emergency
nursing care at the New York-Presbyterian
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Passionate and dedicated, Toussaint
is an active member of the New York
State Nurses’ Association as well as the
American Nurses’Association. Her academic
writing has been featured in the
In-Report newsletter, a hospital-wide
publication of the New York-Presbyterian
Hospital and she was awarded the
Clinical Nursing Excellence Award —
the highest accolade bestowed upon a
registered nurse at that institution —
during Nurses’ Week in May of 2018.
Were she to have superpowers, she
would wish for “super human strength
and longevity because there will be no
limit to what I can do and how long
that I can do it. I will be able to continue
my focus on curing diseases, healing
the sick, and making the world a
better place because healthy people
means a happier world.”
Toussaint cares deeply about her
community and believes in practicing
“nursing with excellence, utilizing
evidenced-based practices for our
Brooklyn, New York community.”
Michelle Smith-Allen
Guyanese-born Michelle Smith-
Allen is the administrative
practice manager for Hematology
/ Oncology at Montefiore Medical
Center, at the Eastchester Road campus,
also known as Weiler.
She has been employed at Montefiore
Medical Center in the Bronx
since December 2001, bringing her to
over 17 years of experience with the
institution.
Ms. Smith-Allen says she manages
a staff of over 100 professionals, which
includes physicians, nurses, secretaries,
social workers, dietitians, phlebotomists,
researchers and the cleaning
team.
She migrated to the United States
in 1977, from Georgetown, the Guyanese
capital, at the age of 8, with her
mother and younger brother.
Ms. Smith-Allen describes herself as
“a mother, daughter, girlfriend, sister,
aunt, cousin, leader and friend.”
She says she “revels in her titles,” as
she knows that each “hat” makes her
the woman that she is today.
Ms. Smith-Allen thanks her beloved
family: Paul (son), Gloria and Leon
(parents), Vernon (partner), Jimmy
and Marvin (brothers) and her many
friends, colleagues and supporters.
She says she puts in 80-90 hours
per week on the job, and has been
working in the health field for the past
18 years.
Ms. Smith-Allen says the best piece
of career advice she has ever received
is “be the best you that you can be.”
She says, if she had one superpower,
it would be “the ability to spread love
over HATE.”
“Our world and country are being
consumed by hate and bullying,” Ms.
Smith-Allen says. “It would be a very
different world if we had more love.”
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