Mary Newcomb

Winchester Hospital has recognized Mary Newcomb, RN as its most recent recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses after she was nominated by a newborn’s parents for being an “angel in scrubs.”

In the nomination, Newcomb was praised for her quick thinking, which enabled a newborn in Winchester Hospital’s Level IIB Special Care Nursery to be diagnosed and properly treated for a life-threatening infection.

The baby's father noted that Newcomb was there “every step of the way” during his son's 21-day treatment in the Special Care Nursery, taking calls from his wife, at all hours of the day and night.

“While life-saving may be the norm at Winchester Hospital, it certainly is not to us. And I doubt that nurses like Mary are the norm at any hospital,” he wrote. “Mary made us feel that our son was part of her family, and I think that he really is. We were sad to leave Mary when he was finally discharged; we really wanted her to come home with us. However, we know Mary is where she needs to be, in the Special Care Nursery, saving lives.”