For as long as we have had the pleasure of working with her at FHCC, Emma has gone above and beyond for her patients. Literally all of them. But one specific patient recently stands out. This patient speaks a language other than English and has difficulties with reading and writing. Emma reviewed medications with this patient throughout several visits to create a system that the patient could easily understand. For each medication, she created tabs with suns and moons on them to denote the time of day the medication should be taken and wrote the number of times the patient would need to take the medication throughout the day. It was an incredibly innovative system that worked well for the patient since they were unable to read the directions on the medication bottles.

A few weeks later, this same patient and spouse needed to be admitted for cell infusion and, unbeknownst to the patient and wife, needed to leave their temporary housing while the patient was in the hospital. The patient showed up at clinic at 430 in the evening to let the team know they were being kicked out of temporary housing and needed to find a place for the caregiver to live in the meantime. Emma found out they had moved all their belongings into the car, but the wife didn’t know how to drive, and the patient would not be allowed to drive after receiving cells. Emma worked past her shift end several times to ensure the patient had a safe place to park their car with all their belongings and a place for his caregiver to stay. The car ended up being parked at FHCC, and Emma went above and beyond to ensure its safety, making multiple calls to security when the car was there. We can’t think of anyone more deserving of this award than Emma for the compassion she shows her patients every day.