Mercy Nurses Win Excellence in Nursing Award

April 21, 2015

DeAnn Wilson, CPNP, and Janet Hungerford, RN.

ST. LOUIS - Two Mercy St. Louis nurses were honored at the Sixth Annual St. Louis Magazine's Excellence in Nursing Awards. Janet Hungerford, RN, Mercy Hospice, and DeAnn Wilson, CPNP, Mercy Kids Plastic Surgery, were two of just 16 winners honored.

Hungerford won the Hospice/Home Health/Palliative Care/Senior Services category and Wilson won the Pediatrics: Non-Neonatal award. They are featured in the May issue of St. Louis Magazine.

Mercy nurses were very well represented. In fact, in the Hospice/Home Health/Palliative Care/Senior Services category, we had every finalist.

Congratulations to all 13 Mercy finalists - they were among 61 finalists in 16 categories. Overall, more than 200 nominations were received.

Other Mercy finalists include: Linda Diel, Mercy Hospice; Lisa Hezel, Mercy Hyperbaric and Wound Center; Amy Mendenhall, Mercy Hospice; Jenny Schwartz, Nursing Excellence; Barb Sicking, JFK Clinic; Kimberly Siemons, ICU; Stefani Struckoff, ICU; Marla Tapia, Mercy Home Care; Victoria Thompson, NICU; Barb Walker, dialysis; and Sarah Yates, cardiovascular ICU.