Stephens Co. Hospital Names Nurse Hero

Stephens County Hospital names its Nurse Hero for 2015.

Recently, Stephens County Hospital Director of Nursing Faye Taylor announced that Mary Ann Hill won this year’s Nurse Hero award.

Hill is a registered nurse in the Critical Care Department at the hospital.

However, Taylor said Hill helps out in many departments.

Taylor said Hill is a very worthy winner for the Nurse Hero Award.

“She is just an outstanding nurse,” said Taylor. “She received many nominations for this award. She is always willing to help others. She does an outstanding job training new employees, working with students, and just has a great attitude and such a teamwork approach to everything she does.”

The Nurse Hero award is something that Stephens County Hospital hands out yearly during National Nurses Week.

Employees nominate staff to receive the Nurse Hero Award and the winners are chosen from among those nominees.

Taylor said it is designed to reward a nurse that goes above and beyond what is required.

“The award itself just kind of embodies what people think of as the perfect nursing employee or the one who strives to treat everybody with respect, is a team player, very caring individual, who goes above and beyond to do a good job taking care of patients as well as taking care of their co-workers,” said Taylor.

Taylor said she and Stephens County Hospital congratulate all of this year’s Nurse Hero nominees, who Taylor said were all very deserving of the recognition.

Those nominees are, besides Hill, Melanie Allen, Stacie Fogle, Maggie Johnson, Janice Pless, Mary Sisk, Carolina Thomas, and Rollita Youngblood.