Jacqueline Archer

Jacqueline Archer has been a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for more than a decade. She works at Sun Harbor Manor in Roslyn Heights, a nursing home specializing in the care of the elderly and individuals undergoing rehabilitation. Ms. Archer has been a true COVID-19 healthcare hero, serving on the front lines of the pandemic. Her faith, humanity, and humble beginnings led her to become a CNA.

During the height of the pandemic, Ms. Archer risked her life to help others, serving as a direct caregiver in the nursing home. As a CNA, she fed and cared for COVID-19 patients, took vital signs, changed soiled garments, and comforted those in pain. Though she herself contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic, once she recovered, she diligently returned to work, undeterred, fighting the virus by taking care of her patients.

As a healthcare professional, she has touched the lives of countless patients, caring for each one like a member of her own family. During the apex of COVID-19, when many seniors died alone, she was there to care for them and assuage their suffering. Ms. Archer recalls caring for one elderly woman during this difficult time by singing, watching shows, and spending quality time together until she passed. For Ms. Archer, taking care of others is not merely a job, but a calling that she has answered with love, determination, and commitment.

She is a resident of Elmont and is actively involved in both her local church, the Revealed Word Christian Center in Cambria Heights, as well as the St. George Secondary Old Scholars Association, which supports students of her Barbadian roots.

Ms. Archer was born in Barbados and immigrated to the United States in 1989. She has been married for 22 years and has three children and two grandchildren.