February 3, 2025 – Holy Cross Health proudly announces microbiology supervisor Michelle Schnobrick as Leader of the Quarter. With over 32 years of dedicated service at Holy Cross, she has consistently demonstrated exceptional leadership and innovation, steadily advancing through the ranks.

Working alongside her dedicated team, Schnobrick demonstrated remarkable resilience as she navigated the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout this period, she worked tirelessly to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, implementing innovative solutions to ensure the continuity of operations, while also prioritizing the health and safety of her staff and community.

In the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, the microbiology blood culture analyzers experienced a critical malfunction, prompting Schnobrick to develop and implement a manual process for the daily plating and interpretation of blood cultures. Her swift and effective response ensured the continuity of essential laboratory operations during this challenging period.

While managing the manual processes, Schnobrick efficiently validated, correlated and integrated new analyzers into the EPIC system, successfully establishing the EPIC interface and bringing the analyzers online in record time. Upon resolving this issue, she swiftly transitioned to implementing molecular methods for expedited bacterial identification, significantly enhancing the speed of antibiotic treatment and contributing to improved patient outcomes.

Since then, Schnobrick has worked collaboratively to complete two optimization initiatives aimed at further enhancing the efficiency, all with the ultimate goal of advancing patient care. Throughout these efforts, she has fostered a highly engaged team that consistently recognizes her as an innovative leader who is open to new ideas and a skilled communicator who leads by example.

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A member of Trinity Health, Fort Lauderdale-based Holy Cross Hospital, dba Holy Cross Health, is a full-service, not-for-profit, Catholic, teaching hospital operating in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy. Holy Cross has been recognized for six Types of Care in U.S. News and World Report’s 2024-25 Best Hospital rankings and was named among the 2024 America’s Best-In-State Hospitals by Newsweek. Holy Cross has been designated as a High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for LGBTQ+ healthcare access. Through strategic collaborations and a commitment to being a person-centered, transforming, healing presence, the 557-bed hospital offers progressive inpatient, outpatient and community outreach services and clinical research trials to serve as our community’s trusted health partner for life. Holy Cross Health also encompasses Holy Cross HealthPlex outpatient facility, an urgent care center and more than 40 Holy Cross Medical Group physician practices. To learn more about Holy Cross Health, visit holy-cross.com. Connect @holycrossfl.