NewYork-Presbyterian Wins Two Emmy Awards
The Marketing and Communications team won for best commercial (single spot) and best editing (short form content).
NewYork-Presbyterian won two Emmy Awards at the 67th Annual New York Emmy Awards and Creative Arts Ceremonies, taking home trophies for best Commercial and Editor, Short Form Content.
Produced in partnership with Havas New York, the winning commercial features Jack Foley, a boy born with a rare, congenital heart defect in which the left side of his heart failed to develop. Jack underwent three surgeries with pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Emile Bacha at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, who re-engineered how his heart pumps. Today, Jack is 13 and an avid ice hockey player. As the commercial shows, the boy born with half a heart competes with all heart.
“It is an incredible honor for us to be able to tell the stories of our amazing patients and the care teams and frontline workers that take care of them,” Devika Mathrani, senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer at NewYork-Presbyterian, said in accepting the award. “I want to thank the entire team at NewYork-Presbyterian and at Havas who bring a commitment, an energy, and a passion to telling these stories every single day.”
Devika Mathrani (center), NewYork-Presbyterian's chief marketing and communications officer, celebrates with members of the marketing and communications team and Havas New York.
NewYork-Presbyterian also won an Emmy Award in the category of Editor, Short Form Content. Editor Katie Garrett won for her work on the video, Saving Two Babies’ Lives with One Pioneering Approach to Heart Valve Transplantation.
The video, produced by NewYork-Presbyterian’s creative and editorial team, told the story of two babies, Mia Skaats and Brooklyn Civil, who were both born with life-threatening congenital heart defects. Thanks to innovative thinking, tireless teamwork by a multidisciplinary care team, and serendipitous timing, the team at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital was able to perform a domino transplant, when one patient receives an organ transplant and, in turn, donates a healthy organ or healthy parts of an organ to another patient. In Mia and Brooklyn’s case, Mia received a full heart transplant, which then made it possible for the healthy valves from her old heart to be placed into Brooklyn’s heart through a partial heart transplant.
Members of the department's creative and editorial team earned a win for best editing in the video about the domino heart transplant that saved two babies' lives.
Hosted by the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the New York Emmy Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences of television from the past year. This year, NewYork-Presbyterian received a total of eight nominations in six different categories.
With these two wins, NewYork-Presbyterian now has a total of four Emmy Awards. In 2020, NewYork-Presbyterian’s Health Matters won for the story of veteran paramedic John Episcopo, a first responder on 9/11. And in 2022, NewYork-Presbyterian’s won for the television spot that launched the hospital’s brand platform “Stay Amazing.”