| Omnicare Award Terri Rutz Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center She may seem to work “behind the scenes,” as one of her nominators put it, but Terri Rutz is front and center in the hearts of the many new mothers she has helped in her nursing career. As a lactation specialist in the Center for Breastfeeding Medicine, she does everything possible to provide what mothers and babies need to continue breastfeeding, from developing individual care plans and staffing the Center’s “warm line” to finding missing breast pumps. In addition to praise from supervisors and peers, Terri’s nominations included a letter from one mother who wrote, “Throughout those first few weeks of being a new mom and attempting to successfully breastfeed, I spoke with numerous lactation consultants and nurses. None were as helpful and caring as Terri Rutz.”
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