As a nationally registered Safe Sitter® teaching site, Crouse Spirit of Women for Kids now offers a comprehensive babysitter training program for adolescents in grades 6-8. Program goals include handling emergencies when caring for younger children and being equally equipped with the tools needed to safely stay home alone. To graduate from the Crouse Hospital…
Three NICU nurses are the latest recipients of the DAISY Award, having been nominated by the parents of a baby who was in their care for the first five weeks of her life. The baby, born at 32 weeks gestation, weighed just 2 pounds, 9 ounces at birth and was immediately brought to the Baker…
While no one wants to be a part of someone’s “worst day of their lives,” Liz Dablock, Molly Lanza, Perrin Kaftan and Melissa Vadala were honored for their compassionate care as a family experienced a heartbreaking loss. The patient, pregnant and herself a pediatric intensive care nurse, wrote about the day her and her husband’s…
Congratulations to Melba Burwell, a Nursing Assistant on the 4 South Irving oncology unit, who was selected as the 2017 recipient of the Joan Fernbach Kingson Award. Nominated by Maggie Race, a registered nurse on the unit, Melba was noted for her hard work and willingness to lend a hand, but above all, her compassion…
