I would like to (with humility and humbleness) nominate the CCU team for their extraordinary contributions and heroism during some of the most challenging times known to our profession, community, and humanity in general. CCU is a team like no other, who not only works well together but takes care of each other and provides compassionate care to all of our patients. During the pandemic, they quickly asked how they could contribute. They stepped up and inquired about learning how to care for a patient requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), not only because it would be beneficial to them, but to provide relief for the CVICU team who needed help caring for multiple patients requiring this therapy. It was amazing to see many of the nurses step forward as volunteers to take care of some of the most critically ill patients we have ever known. This extraordinary act of kindness was awe-inspiring and a testament to the core of this team’s values. It encompassed all of the strategic pillars and values of our ministry which include: 1) Improving community health and well-being as some of our team members volunteered to provide vaccinations to our community through the Virginia Volunteer Health System (VVHS) Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) to help prevent or limit the severity of the disease and educating the public on COVID. 2) Deliver clinical and operational excellence as the team became competent on one of the most complicated and intense therapies available while also tackling the demand of an unprecedented number of rapid responses and code blue events as at the height of the pandemic, the team was responding to >400 emergency calls a month. This support for our fellow nurses was extraordinary without a doubt. 3) Strengthen culture and capabilities was exemplified by our team’s value in each other. They have nominated so many of their peers, which in itself is extraordinary and selfless. We not only kept each other afloat, but we also kept each other thriving and keep our spirits high. We believed in each other and our abilities to overcome any obstacle and we did endure together. In addition, our capabilities to perform ECMO not only benefited our immediate community but outlying communities, as well as some patients, were transferred from all areas of our state and other states, which transcended all previously defined boundaries of what is known as our community. 4) Innovation and Growth is the pinnacle of what this team has accomplished through the spirit of caring. Caring not for themselves, but selflessly and heroically caring for the sickest of the sick and each other and other teams within our walls we call St. Mary’s hospital. Between ECMO, CODE ICE, CODE BLUE, and Rapid Responses, the team has always taken on these responsibilities, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. No, we couldn’t always save everyone, but know that we gave everyone who was sick the “full-court press” and a chance to survive with the best outcomes possible. Last, but certainly not least, our team BELIEVES in each other, and prays for each other and for our patients every day in a living testament, which embodies the true meaning of HOPE and caring for each other as Jesus Christ taught us all.