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2017 TENACIOUS CAREGIVER AWARD

Cheryl Spicer, Nurse Home Visitor at

Sadler Health Center Nurse-Family Partnership in Carlisle, PA.

To celebrate the incredible impact that all Nurse-Family Partnership nurses and agencies are having on families, we wanted to formally recognize and support our amazing teams. We launched a new Recognition Program to highlight and share those successes. We opened up nominations asking agencies for stories about why or how colleagues went above and beyond to best serve our moms and babies. We received inspiring and compelling stories and were honored to present the inaugural award to Cheryl Spicer, Nurse Home Visitor

at Sadler Health Center Nurse-Family Partnership in Carlisle, PA.

Cheryl not only consistently carries a full caseload and has been a nurse home visitor for eleven years, but she hosted numerous nursing students for one-day shadowing experiences and even mentored one of them for 120 hours. She has completed over 4,000 home visits, over 5,000 hours of face to face time with Nurse-Family Partnership moms and 26,000 lonely miles driving to and from home visits. She is compassionate and empowering, and epitomizes the Nurse-Family Partnership mission in more ways that we can articulate. Congratulations and THANK YOU for all you do for our families!

cheryl spicer

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