Moore latest named to Trailblazers

QUEENSBURY, New York (Feb. 8, 2022) — SUNY Adirondack’s Office of Alumni Relations proudly welcomes Cassandra Moore into the college’s Trailblazers Society.

Moore, service line administrator of Glens Falls Hospital’s Neurology & Stroke Program, is a 2005 graduate of SUNY Adirondack’s highly respected Nursing program. Over the past 16 years, she has worked as a critical care nurse and nurse educator, and developed Glens Falls Hospital’s nurse residency and stroke programs.

SUNY Adirondack announced at its annual Trailblazers and Scholarship Dinner on Dec. 6 the committee’s selection of Moore as this year’s Trailblazers honoree. This award recognizes individuals who demonstrate excellence in the areas of professional achievement, community service, service to ACC/SUNY Adirondack and/or outstanding spirit.

“Emergent treatment requires the public to be educated in the early signs and symptoms of [stroke] so they will seek immediate emergency attention. Cassie has provided nursing leadership and expertise so this education of the public and treatment is now available within our community at Glens Falls Hospital … [patients can now] receive this life-saving emergency treatment right in their community at Glens Falls Hospital,” wrote Donna Healy, a longtime nurse and educator who nominated Moore.

“Ms. Moore’s dedication to her profession and our community is changing — and often saving — lives,” said Danielle Brown, director of Alumni Relations at SUNY Adirondack. “Her innovation in and commitment to teaching the next generation of nurses is improving health care and quality of life throughout our region.”

While still in high school, Moore was trained as a licensed practical nurse (LPN). She enrolled in SUNY Adirondack’s Nursing program, working as an LPN while earning a degree, then took a job at Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital. She fell in love with critical care and the opportunity it provided to build more meaningful relationships with fewer patients and worked at Glens Falls Hospital, then Albany Medical Center. 

Moore earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Nursing Education and Leadership in a bridge program through Excelsior College in 2015 and, in 2016, returned to Glens Falls Hospital to help establish a nurse residency program in high-acuity areas. In 2018, she led a team in developing the hospital’s Stroke Program, of which she became director in 2020. 

She serves on the hospital’s diversity, equity and inclusion committee and teaches nursing students as a clinical instructor.

“I tell the students, ‘In 15 years, you don’t know where you’re going to be because health care is always changing,’” Moore said. “When I graduated from Nursing school, my job didn’t exist; I had no idea this was the path I was going to take, but I love what I do.”