In Roads
Inside information for the employees of Mercy Medical Center
May 23, 2014
Mercy in the News “When deeds speak, words are nothing.” - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Plagarized Newspaper Ad Below is a post that a Dignity Health employee posted on our internal Hello Humankindness website
Mercy Medical Center’s Family Birth Center RNs Jewelene Rezendes, who is 28 weeks pregnant, Maria Rosquites, with baby Reza, 3 months old, Lindsey O’Banion, with baby Cash, 3 months old, and obstetrics technician Amanda Mora, who is 31 weeks pregnant, pose for a portrait Friday.
Mother’s Day is every day at Mercy's birth center in Merced by Ana B. Ibarra May 9, 2014
MERCED — Nothing can prepare you to be a mom, even labor and delivery nurses who care for newborns on a daily basis can agree with that. Nurses and obstetrics technicians at Mercy Medical Center’s Family Birth Center know from experience that being a first-time mom can be nerveracking, but they all agree that it can also be one of the greatest events in life. The nurses and OB techs work long shifts, all while having to take care of their own growing families, but they assure they would not have it any other way. “Being part of one of the most important moments in a person’s life, that’s just incredible,” said Jewelene Rezendes, a nurse who is expecting
her second baby. Rezendes, along with other nurses in the birth unit, believe that nothing gives them a better understanding of what their patients are going through than calling upon their own experiences as mothers. Lindsey O’Banion, nurse and mother of two, said it is especially important for her to make new moms feel at ease. O’Banion recalls how lost and scared she felt during her first pregnancy and uses that experience to connect with new moms. “Most times they’re scared, so I try to reassure them that what they’re feeling is normal,” O’Banion said,
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by Joseph Erkenbrecher Mercy San Juan Medical Center
In the Sacramento Bee Dignity Health ran a half page advertisement that said "You are the heart and soul of everything we do." My 10 year old son saw the ad somewhere (we don't get the Bee so it wasn't our house) and brought it home to show me the cool ad for where I work. Then when he went to bed he had taken the newspaper, put it on my bed and drawn a line through "of everything we do" and added his own touch to make it read "You are the heart and soul of our family". I love my son very much and with a little touch of "Humankindness" he showed me that he loves me too.