Brookwood Baptist Medical Center Celebrates Nurses Week 2021

Brookwood Baptist Medical Center is proud to honor our nurses during National Nurses Week, May 6-12. This annual celebration recognizes the critical role nurses perform in our hospital and for our community, and this year’s celebration is particularly meaningful as it commemorates just how indispensable our nurses have been during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are grateful to all our nurses and humbled by the hard work they perform every day,” said Brookwood Baptist Medical Center CEO, Tim Puthoff. “Nursing is one of the most rewarding careers, but also one of the most challenging. This week is about paying tribute to nurses and the daily impact they have on our patients’ lives.” 

Our nurses have many roles – staff nurse, nursing leader, educator, infection preventionist, nurse practitioner and more, and they serve these roles with a passion for the profession and a strong commitment to patient safety.

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually to coincide with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Like Florence Nightingale, our nurses have served with passion and dedication, fighting for their patients against a pandemic that has waxed and waned now for well over a year. Today, as Florence Nightingale did in her time, our nurses represent a profession of advocacy and strength and are respected for their professionalism and devotion to their patients, their families and for each other.