{"id":13403,"date":"2026-10-28T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/?p=13403"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:55:16","slug":"employee-spotlight-shines-on-danny-agpalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/employee-spotlight-shines-on-danny-agpalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Spotlight Shines on Danny Agpalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Danny-Alpago-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13405 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Danny-Alpago-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>This month, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center shines its Employee Spotlight on Danny Agpalo, a Patient Care Associate (PCA).<\/p>\n<p>Danny has been employed at the hospital for 31 years. He was the first Patient Care Associate hired and trained at the hospital. He began his career on Psych 2, then the Traumatic Brain Injury unit, and subsequently the Wound Care Division. Danny has earned the Going the Extra Mile (GEM) Award twice.<\/p>\n<p>Danny grew up in the Philippines where he attended elementary school and high school. Upon coming to New York in June of 1995, he enrolled in Queens Borough Community College and York College studying Occupational Therapy and Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>Danny currently resides in Queens. He has one daughter who is 28 years old. In his free time he enjoys gardening. Danny likes to spend his vacation visiting different countries in Asia. Japan is his favorite country and he hopes to return there again. Danny likes to eat different types of food and always strives to make healthy choices. One of his favorite types of food is Italian. \u00a0The sport that interests him the most is martial arts. At one time he trained in Tae Kwon Do.<\/p>\n<p>Danny enjoys working at Jamaica Hospital because there is great team work with his colleagues. Giving excellent care to his patients is his priority and seeing good results gives him great satisfaction. We look forward to Danny continuing to work with us for many more years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">All content of this newsletter is intended for general information purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.  Please consult a medical professional before adopting any of the suggestions on this page.   You must never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment based upon any content of this newsletter.<strong>  PROMPTLY CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR CALL 911 IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center shines its Employee Spotlight on Danny Agpalo, a Patient Care Associate (PCA). Danny has been employed at the hospital for 31 years. He was the first Patient Care Associate hired and trained at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/employee-spotlight-shines-on-danny-agpalo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13406,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions\/13406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}