The Leadership & Staff
Congratulate
Ann Marie Whyte-Akinyooye, RN
Recipient Of
Caribbean HealthCare
Award 2019
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HEALTHCARE AWARDS
Ann Marie Whyte-Akinyooye
Coming from humble beginnings
in St. Mary’s, Jamaica, Ann
Marie Whyte-Akinyooye, chief
nursing officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/
McKinney, says she has broken
many glass ceilings in both her personal
and professional life.
After graduating from Borough
of Manhattan Community College’s
(BMCC) Nursing Program, she worked
at Flushing Manor, Bushwick Center,
Holliswood Care Center and Queens
Center, among other places, garnering
acute but mostly post-acute care
experiences.
Whyte-Akinyooye rose from unit
clerk to nurse supervisor to director of
nursing to chief nursing officer at NYC
Health + Hospitals/McKinney.
She says her success as a caregiver
comes from her “core that is faithgrounded.”
She is a member of the
More Grace Redemptive Church.
As a young woman, she says her
grandmother instilled certain values
in her, adding that it was “apparently
natural” that she adopted those values
and entered the post-acute care arena
because of her love for the elderly.
Whyte-Akinyooye – who works
between 60-85 hours on average per
week and has been employed in health
care for more than 30 years – says she
is a strong proponent of treating others
“the way I would want someone to
treat me.”
“I want to be respected for who I
am,” she says. “I want to be shown
dignity, and I want to be treated honorably.
And this is how I treat others,
with respect, dignity and honor.”
If she had one superpower, she says
it would be the acronym “ICARE” that
has been developed by NYC Health
& Hospitals: Integrity, Compassion,
Accountable, Respect and Excellence.
Gladys E. Cadore-Williams
Grenadian-born Registered Nurse
Gladys E. Cadore-Williams says
she always knew she wanted to
be a nurse.
After graduating from St. Joseph’s
Convent in Grenada, she attended the
Queen Elizabeth Tercentenary School
of Nursing in Barbados.
She then migrated to the United
States, where she completed her
nursing degree, passed the New York
State Board, and fulfilled her childhood
goal.
Cadore-Williams subsequently
became a distinguished member of the
United States Army Nurse Corp.
During the height of the Iraq and
Afghanistan conflict, Ms. Cadore-Williams,
now a retired lieutenant colonel
in US Army Nurse Corp., says she
“devoted four years to taking care of
our wounded men and women and
their families.”
The Brooklyn resident is an active
member of the Grenada, Carriacou,
and Petite Martinique Nurses Association
of America, Inc., and is the
immediate past president and currently
serves as the public relations
officer.
After leaving active military service,
Ms. Cadore-Williams joined the
New York City Transit Occupational
Health Department, where she is now
employed as a senior manager responsible
for the operation of two clinics,
one in Queens and the other in Staten
Island.
Cadore-Williams, who has more
than 35 years of health care experience
and works between 50-60 hours
per week, says the best piece of career
advice she’s ever received is: “Chose a
career you love, and you’ll never work
a day in your life.”
If she had one superpower, she says
she would “make every adult see the
world through the lens of a loving
child.”
Your choice to be a person
with humanistic integrities were
fashioned because you’ve aligned
your beliefs and words
with the objective to be just
who you were fashioned to
Become….. ac.
Make the Universe your
caregiving field.