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“I hope you’ve all heard it thousands of times by the time this reaches you. Know that every single thank you is deeply heartfelt. You are, every one of you, champions of courage and a testament to the best attributes of this human race. As thousands before me — and thousands after — will repeat: Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”- M J S “I want to thank you for all you’re doing to help during this pandemic. I know when you chose to go into healthcare there was no way any one could predict this would happen, but it has, and you’re committed to helping people get well. My family and I appreciate all your long hours, the risks you're taking and pray for you every day. I hope every one of you stays well. Thank you for your sacrifices for the rest of us. It takes people with a lot of empathy to do your job. Words don’t express my gratitude for all you’re doing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”- Theresa M.
“To all our brave, dedicated, caring, compassionate health workers and support staff, thank you! Your selfless work and sacrifice are truly |
HEROIC“We are volunteers at your hospital, and we miss everyone. We can’t wait till were all back together. We thank you for everything you do for everyone. Please take good care of yourselves and your families. We are all praying for you! Virtual hugs!”- Karen & Bob L. |
“As a veteran I know what it feels like to be placed in harm’s way. Your duties and skills are very much appreciated by the millions of people who you serve and save. Be safe and strong. Years from now you will look back upon this and feel pride in yourself for being a part of “what made a difference” during a pandemic time.”- L.W.L.
“To all my wonderful doctors, nurses, friends, that work at Banner Hospital. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for going to work each day. You were my |
“We appreciate your courage, unselfishness, and determination. Wishing we could hug all of you in person. However, please accept our virtual giant hugs.”- Dan and Charlette |
“Each of you has our highest respect for putting your lives on the line every day while serving the people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Thank you and may God bless each of you and your families.”Anonymous submission “Thank you to all hospital, medical care workers for all you are doing. I realize you are giving your expertise to those who need you so much. You are brave, faithful, hardworking, have a beautiful soul and love is the answer. You are showing your love in a desperate time for your patients. There are so many people working including maintenance staff, delivery persons getting patients to X-ray, MRI, CT scans, CNAs, RNs, Doctors and all those who are doing the scans. In addition, there must be a need for receptionists and clerks. The stress of not knowing if you will have all the things you need like masks, gowns, hats, gloves, etc. must weigh on you also. I wish you peace, strength, confidence and courage. I am praying for all of you. I am staying safe so as not to pass any germs around. My sincere thanks and love to all of you.”- Frank C “Your sacrifices are many! I am not sure where to begin. You are putting yourselves on the frontlines of an unknown illness and taking care of others and risking your own health and time with family to be with ours! From the bottom of my heart, I say thank you! I salute you for your bravery and for your endurance! Your community is grateful for your dedication in serving those in need! Do not give up hope! Keep up your amazing efforts and know that you are loved and appreciated!”- Lisa H.
“Healthcare workers at Banner and across this country have redefined the word |
“It will be interesting to see how history remembers the 2020 pandemic; it will be a complicated story; but chief among those singled out for recognition will be those on the front lines of medical care. To all at Banner Health our heartfelt thanks.”- Bonnie and Thomas C. |
“Thank you for sharing your expertise, love, and compassion! Please take care of yourself! Together we’ll get through this! Including you in my prayers Best to you.”- Rose B. “My family is forever grateful for your willingness to work tirelessly on the front lines as we battle this pandemic. We know you have sacrificed time and closeness with your own families to tend to the sick among us. I commit to praying for your safety and for an end to this epidemic soon. God Bless you.”- Janice N. & Family “Thank you all so much for the incredible sacrifices you are making every day. Our society would be lost without you.”- Mark S. “In these exhausting, trying times we grapple with the “whys?” and “how can this be happening?”. It is with my deepest gratitude that every one of YOU all have been chosen as caregivers of the highest rank. Indeed, you’ve known your calling, but it is in CRISIS that your purpose is revealed, and your strength and resilience is honed and exposed. You are being chiseled into your very greatest self. Your hands, your knowledge, your compassion is being sculpted into a perfect example of your Creator’s hand. You are earning your angel’s wings. Author Dennis Orteman reveals that suffering “opens our hearts to a fuller life, if it is embraced in hope.” You are experiencing personal suffering and represent hope each day you show up for work, sacrificing family time, holding a patient’s hands and guiding absent family members through diagnosis and treatments. You display the fullest extent of your purpose on earth when you sit with a patient who will lose this battle but be fully glorified in heaven. You learn in this time, the very intentional, and perfect being you were created to become and the contribution to the greatest purpose of LOVE that you serve. There is no job, or task greater than the next. As a health serving community, you are equal. May you feel the gratitude of the world. May you know the prayers focused on you for strength. May you feel so very much appreciated! May you know that you are warriors of HOPE. Bless you.”- Becky N. “My family is forever grateful for your willingness to work tirelessly on the front lines as we battle this pandemic. We know you have sacrificed time and closeness with your own families to tend to the sick among us. I commit to praying for your safety and for an end to this epidemic soon. God Bless you.”- Janice N. & Family “No one can truly know your sacrifices. THANK YOU.”- Eileen D.
“We often take the care we receive throughout the year for granted, I can assure you that is not the case anymore. My wife and I want you to know how sincerely grateful we are for the great sacrifices you all are making every day, putting your own lives at risk as you fight to save ours. Our healthcare professionals are the real warriors in this fight and the true |
“Thanks to all employees @Banner who work tirelessly from transportation, foodservice, housekeeping and techs to all the medical staff who give back in these unprecedented times. Thanks to the job you do every day. You move the country forward.”- Michele M. |
“Thank you for being there to take care of us. This must be a most difficult time for you with perhaps the most dangerous conditions you have ever faced. Caring for your patients is now overshadowed by the harm that very care may do to yourself or, by extension, your family. The selflessness inherent in your job under normal conditions is now raised to the level of those occupations that face life-threatening circumstances daily. Please take good care of yourselves, your family and your co-workers, and with our most sincere best wishes we pray this will all be over soon.”- John & Lani M. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the care you provided to me personally in the past but more recently for your courage, stamina and love that you provide for your entire community in these trying times. It is the faith you provide just by showing up every day that keeps the hope alive that we shall survive this pandemic. My family and I believe that love will conquer all and the love you show for your responsibilities, your institution, your professions, your patients, your communities and your performance under the most trying of circumstances earns our love and respect for you. We pray on that you stay safe and healthy so that we can all put our families back together someday soon. We also pray that somehow the deniers will wake up and pay attention so that they will not be a continuing to endanger you and the rest of us. Thank you”- Charles H. “From one nurse to my sister & brother nurses on the front lines: I’ve spent over 25 years in the operating room with a lot of that time in the Banner system, so have also seen and worked around a lot of infectious disease myself. I pray for all of you often. I know what it’s like to walk into a room to work with an aids patient back in the 1980’s before Science even knew how it spread we had no idea if we would get it by touching them, worked with necrotizing fasciitis when it first came out and doctors were consulting each other & trying whatever antibiotic cocktails they could experiment with to save lives and then there was MRSA....... This seems to never end, but it does. Sometimes I sweated in places I didn’t even know could sweat, just out of fear. I remember stuffing it back down, kept on moving, doing my job. I understand how you are feeling. I had also had a decontam place in my garage/laundry room, then went straight to the shower after getting home from work; all before holding my baby boy each night. I just need you to know that what I see here in Phoenix is a whole lot of good going on. People are kinder, people are staying in, People are standing patiently in lines 6 feet apart and not short tempered with others, people are wearing face masks and latex gloves. Sometimes it feels like I’m back in the hospital working for all the face masks and latex gloves I see on others. I’ve never seen people pull together and work towards a common cause like this before in my whole life. One morning this week I opened my front door, and, on my porch, mat was a bottle of hand sanitizer with a stickie note on it stating, “Hello Neighbor, this is for you please stay safe”. Personally, I’m spending my extra time now sewing face masks for family, neighbors and friends to keep them safe. Phoenix will flatten this curve for you sooner than the news predicts. I know they will. For myself, I’ve aged out of being able to work in the hospital now, too old to push oversized patients around a corner in a gurney, lift those heavy ortho trays, or put up with ornery surgeons. But I can pray for you all and I do. I made it, and you and your family will make it also. Oh, and I can also bequeath you my only son. He grew up 6’ 2” nice & healthy and is now heading into nursing school himself next semester! ((Proud mama here)). Remember, God loves you, trust in Him and go with God. With all my love.”- An old Nurse “We are so very grateful for all the doctors, nurses and staff at all the Banner Hospitals for their faithful service to the public during this pandemic. Hang in there for hopefully, this will all be over soon. God bless all of you and keep you safe. Very respectfully,”- Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. “All of you are amazing and brave for performing assistance that so many of us need. I have wondered how you feel, considering many of you can’t stay home with your families. Your calmness, friendliness, and caring creates a positive atmosphere when I come in for appointments. I want to thank you for being there when I needed you.”- Nancy E. “I just wanted to send you all my gratitude and respect for the work you are doing for our community and the world. You inspire me, and I hope you know how much your work means to everyone around you. I think of all the people who are scared and anxious and struggling during this time, and how the work you do lifts some of those emotions and helps people get through it all. Thank you ❤️”- Adelle M. |
“There are not enough words to tell you all how much we appreciate what you do. Not just during this crisis, but every hour of every day. If it were not for your tireless dedication to your profession, we would be up a creek without a paddle. Knowing that you are out there on our worst days is a comfort to my husband and me. We are keeping each of you in our hearts throughout this time when you put yourselves on the frontlines for us. We feel that you are our guardian angels.”- Peggy B. |
“I personally want to thank you Doctors, Nurses, Administrative Staff and Technicians for your constant care for all that have this done and are doing for your patients during this horrible COVID-19 disease. I pray for all of you daily, and recognize you are all gracious to not bow out and leave us (patients) to our own problems no matter what our sickness is – COVID-19 or otherwise. In my heart I call you the brave, the kind and above all |
“I brought my husband into the emergency department and he was admitted for three days. I deeply appreciate your care and dedication to the patients during this dangerous time. I couldn’t be with him, which was very hard, but both doctors and nurses were great and talked to me on the phone while they were with him. I also liked having the messages sent to me regarding the status of his care. God bless you all and keep you safe.”- Maurine S. |
“I am sending this email to all the Nurses, Technical Staff, Doctors, Maintenance Staff, Clerical Staff and volunteers working not only at Banner Health, but at all Hospitals. I am having a difficult time conveying in words the feelings of thanks and gratitude I am feeling for all you dedicated and fearless medical professionals and support staff. Even though my wife and I have been very lucky (so far) to have not been affected by the coronavirus, we see from all the news coverage the dedication and sacrifice you and your families are all making in order to give those afflicted with this horrible virus a fighting chance to survive. You are literally jumping into the fire to save those that cannot fend for themselves. I believe with all my heart that there is a special place in Heaven for brave, dedicated, selfless people like you. As I write this, “Thank You” seems to have too little a meaning during times like these. But that’s all our language has. So again, thank you, thank you from the depths of our souls. May God bless you, guide you and protect you today, tomorrow and all the days of your lives. From our hearts to yours.”- Steve and Judy T. “We have been practicing social distancing and wearing masks so hopefully will never need to see you in these trying times, but wonderful to know that you are there- taking care of those that need YOU. Thank you for all you do. My daughter is a Physician in Wisconsin, so I know some of what you are going thru. HUGS to all.”- Marie and Rodney
“I prayed today for all the medical men & women that are constantly helping all of us right now on the frontlines. I prayed that God would give them wisdom on how to help each & every patient they meet. I also prayed that God would give them wisdom on how to care for themselves during this craziness we are now calling life. Prayed blessings over each & every one of them! I cannot thank all of you enough! Make sure you get the rest you need so you can keep being the strong super |
Thank you, #HealthcareHeroes |