I'm Dana Jay, and this is Henry Ford Health System News,
a new feature for showcasing our team members' accomplishments and our values of
compassion, innovation, respect, and results. Today,
we start with a major accomplishment for Henry Ford Allegiance Hospital.
The nursing team at allegiance has earned Magnet recognition,
the highest honor in nursing.
Leaders took the call with the big news inside and broadcasted via speaker phone
to the socially distant team who celebrated outside.
Only 8% of hospitals in the United States achieve magnet status,
which is a reflection of nursing professionalism, teamwork,
and superiority in patient care. As a health system,
Henry Ford is working towards achieving Magnet recognition at all five acute
care hospitals in the next five years.
You'll remember the nursing team at Henry Ford hospital got word they'd achieved
magnet status in March at Henry Ford Macom Hospital,
two nurses are bringing a creative touch to labor and delivery.
I just love baby feet. Nicole Smith combines the job.
She loves some have more, uh, creases than others,
and some are flat-footed with her love of crafting alongside fellow labor and
delivery nurse Linda Delange both creates special keepsakes for
families featuring the feet of the babies. They helped deliver.
Just say conversation, you get their interests and hobbies.
Once the baby is born, Linda and Nicole,
get creative painting the little one's feet and using footprints as
stepping off points for personalized momentos of their time at Henry Ford.
Some favorites,
a coast guard helicopter that was for a rescue diver that
worked at a soft bridge. And you'll get to know that family really well.
I did some fish footprints that kind of took me a little bit of time.
It was kind of unique and fun. The paintings surprise and delight,
grateful parents, with both nurses saying
their special way of saying thank you.
It's kind of a nice little personal piece that I can give it to the patient to
say, congratulations.
It's just one of the most unique things that you can experience in life.
And it's a pleasure to be a part of it.
Life is so sweet for one Henry Ford patient.
She wanted to share it with her care team.
So she put them to work scooping ice cream.
I think it's a lot like being in the operating room and you know,
you have to do it very carefully.
That's Henry Ford neurosurgeon, Dr. Adam Robin,
digging into some mint chocolate chip at Ziggy's ice cream in Grand Blanc.
It belongs to Kate White and her husband, Rick.
Kate is back to working full time and feeling like again,
after ending up at Henry Ford hospital in Detroit with glioblastoma,
the most deadly form of brain cancer, Kate says she wanted to pay it forward.
So she organized a fundraiser selling ice cream to raise money for Henry Ford's,
Hermelin Brain Tumor center end game on cancer.
She invited the Henry Ford team to be celebrity scoopers.
The team included Hermelin Brain Tumor center, program manager, Lisa Scarpace,
and her son Kate's oncologists,
Dr. James Snyder and Dr. Vrushali Dubak and her kids and Dr. Adam
Robin.
I think what it says is that I'm just one piece of a really great team, frankly,
for the whole brain tumor center and the Henry Ford Cancer Institute.
And moreover that between the patients and all of the people that make up that
team, you have a great community.
When it comes to the treatment of folks with brain tumors.
Kate says she hopes to make the fundraiser an annual event,
and she fully intends on putting our team to work again next year.
And we're going to stick with our neurology team as we go to our featured photo.
Our featured photo This time around comes from our movement disorder team,
all masked up for the dystonia medical research association,
virtual zoo walk, the team,
is led by doctors, Ellen Air, Neepa Patel,
and Jason Schwalb outreach specialist, Julia Wall.
We want to see what your team is up to.
You can send story ideas or your fun photos, our way,
email them to newstips@hfhs.org.
And I'll see you around.