The Medical Center will celebrate nurses and mothers May 12 with the first Nurse Walk and the annual Mother-Daughter Tea.
The Nurse Walk will begin at 9 a.m. on The Medical Center Emergency Department lawn.
“The walk will be a mile and a half. We’re walking around the building,” said Jodi Hanna, a registered nurse and surgical services educator at the hospital. “There is not a registration fee. Our nurse of the year (who has not been revealed) will say a few words.”
The event is in celebration of National Nurses Week, which is Sunday through May 12, Hanna said.
“We wanted to promote wellness in the community and get the community involved,” she said. “Everybody’s lives have been changed or impacted by a nurse at one time or another. We wanted to bring attention to what we do.”
The walk will be casual, Hanna said. “We’re hoping to do it as an annual event and would love people to come out and join us,” she said.
The Mother-Daughter Tea will be at 3 p.m. at The Medical Center Auditorium. Cost is $8 per person. Preregistration is required.
“We have got 15 to 20 spaces left,” said Linda Rush, director of community wellness for the hospital. “The Medical Center has had this event for more than 20 years. We do it the Saturday of Mother’s Day weekend.”
The Mother-Daughter Tea isn’t just for mothers and daughters, Rush said.
“It’s for women and girls of all ages. You can come with your mother or daughter, neighbor or aunt,” she said. “We just encourage women to come and enjoy that afternoon together.”
Hart County author Virginia Davis and illustrator Jane Ward Kehrt of Glasgow will talk about their children’s book, “The Irises’ Secret,” during the tea. The book tells the story of a girl who hides a tea set in an iris patch and the little girl who finds it some time later.
“They will have copies of the book and do a signing,” Rush said.
Girls will have the opportunity to have cupcakes decorated especially for them by 11-year-old St. Joseph School students Madison Feria and Kate Lawless, who operate Sweet Treats Bakery.— For more information about the Nurse Walk, call 796-3380. For more information or to preregister for the Mother-Daughter Tea, call 745-1010 or 800-624-2318.
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