Keepsakes Provide Meaning for Patient’s Families
A heartwarming story: how the Heartbeat in a Bottle brings comfort to families whose loved ones passed away from COVID-19 or other causes.
Tag: COVID-19
COVID Clinic Addresses the Needs of the Most Vulnerable Patients
“I truly believe if some of our patients had not come to their appointments – they would not have survived.”
In Their Own Words
“I am inspired by the positive energy of collaboration within all levels of leadership and with the emphasis on helping nurses at all levels by creating the supportive environment they need to be successful.”
Learning More About Our Leaders
Creating, sustaining and navigating within a thriving healthcare environment requires passion, commitment and a host of other key attributes and skills.
An OT Reflects: Falling and Rising Together
Things are getting better. We now have access to tools to mobilize our intubated patients, new treatment protocols, and we know more about protecting ourselves and our patients.
Expressing Her Gratitude Through Art
“There’s somebody there holding your hand. If I would’ve passed away, I wasn’t going to pass away alone because one of God’s children was with me. “
Transforming a Patient’s Healing Journey
He was soon discharged to a ventilator rehab facility and is now home and doing really well in his follow-ups with SVMH pulmonologists.
The View from the ICU
Laurie Freed, BSN, RN, CCRN-CSC, an ICU/CCU nurse, was overwhelmed with emotion when vaccines became available because she had seen so many patients succumb to the virus in the winter of 2020-21.
Mylene in the Storm
Mylene Peralta, BSN, RN, brought humanity to hardship, calm to calamity, peace where all the pieces seemed to be falling apart.
Facing the Pandemic with Preparation and Perseverance
In collaboration with physicians, two Emergency Department nurses implemented an algorithm to determine which patients could be treated and monitored in the care tents versus which ones would need to be admitted to the hospital.