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Virginia Nurse Honored for Heroism
Richmond-Times Dispatch
July 03, 2009
A nurse at Poplar Springs Hospital in Petersburg has been awarded a “Doing the RIGHT Thing” commendation for keeping a suicidal man talking on the phone until emergency personnel arrived to rescue him from a bridge.
Poplar Springs Hospital executives presented the award to Karen Heidorn on May 29. Heidorn, who has more than 13 years of experience handling trauma and high-stress situations, spoke with the man for more than a half-hour.
“Karen is a wonderful person and an exceptional health-care professional,” said Poplar Springs CEO Richard Clark. “I’m not at all surprised that she was able to respond in exactly the right way to a very desperate situation.”
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