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Nurses Week Profile – Sue Parkes
As an only child in England, Sue Parkes received some career advice from her father that helped her chart a course for her life. “He said, ‘If you go into nursing, you’ll never be without a friend,’” Parkes recalls. “That was an important thing for me, having grown up without any siblings. I realized nursing…
Trauma nurse discusses Vegas response on Headline News
Julie Huizinga, a trauma nurse at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center, remembers exactly where she was on Oct. 1, 2017 – the night the Route 91 Harvest Festival turned tragic in Las Vegas. Having been through a mass casualty event in her home state of Alabama following a tornado, Huizinga says that the night itself,…
Happy National Nurses Week
Each year, it is my great privilege and pleasure to present this special Nurses Week message. How I wish it were possible to tell the individual stories of all 87,000 nurses across HCA Healthcare. For within every nurse’s story, I know that we would find the “heart of the matter,” or what nursing is all…
Celebrating Hospital Week and Nurses Week
By: Milton Johnson, Chairman and CEO; Sam Hazen, President and COO; Jonathan Perlin, President, Clinical Services and CMO Sunday, May 6th, marks the start of National Hospital Week and National Nurses Week. It’s a time when we pause to thank all HCA Healthcare colleagues who care for patients and serve our communities each and every…
Star honored during yearlong HCA 50th celebration
Star Sellers has history with TriStar Centennial Medical Center, HCA Healthcare’s earliest hospital in Nashville. It was where her grandmother was treated, back when it was known as Park View Hospital; it was this hospital’s caregivers that tended to her beloved father and grandfather before they passed away; and it was the place her mother…
Nurses bring prom to hospital for dad-daughter dance
“Dances are something the whole Moran family gets into, especially senior prom,” said Jenn Moran, whose husband, Dan, was hospitalized before their youngest daughter, Mady’s, big night. “This year, one really important person couldn’t be there to watch Mady leave for the dance or embarrass her at pictures with the neighborhood.” Dan Moran was admitted…