Redefining Possible Award
The Redefining Possible Award allows a patient the opportunity to thank one or more individuals who made an enormous difference in their life enabling them to redefine what is possible.
2019 Redefining Possible Award Winners
PRESENTED BY:
Shaima Israr on behalf of the Israr family
Rayyan Israr's Story
When your child is born with complications, love isn’t your first instinct, it’s fear. UCSF Benioff Chil-dren’s Hospital Oakland took away that fear and turned it into love. A nine month NICU stay and 15 OR visits have changed us for the better. Hope, love and compassion were things I experienced every day that we walked through those doors. They didn’t treat my son like he was just one of the many patients on that unit, they treated us like we were the only ones there. That is how much compassion and attention to detail was present in the room. On day one when my son was born I wasn’t sure he would survive his first 24 hours let alone his first surgery. Three years later, here he is beating every odd with a huge smile on his face and love in his heart.
2019 Award Winners
Christopher Newton, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery Department of Surgery - BCH-Oakland
Blanca Valentine, NNP
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Joanne McManus Kuller, RNC-NIC, MS, CNS
NICU Clinical Nurse Specialist
Accepting on behalf of the BCH-Oakland NICU Unit