Hesen Jabr is the kind of American almost every community admires and raises up as a role model for young people to follow.
A hardworking labor and delivery nurse in New York City, Jabr recently won a prestigious award for exemplary care to patients suffering from perinatal loss at New York University’s Langone Hospital where she has worked for the past nine years.
The tenderness and empathy she showed to mothers who had lost babies, in childbirth or pregnancy, deeply impressed the other nurses in the unit, and in May they publicly honored her for it by awarding her the Sebastian Brun Compassionate Care Award, “Not only for providing stellar care,” they wrote in their nomination letter, “but also support for the rest of the nursing staff so that we can all live up to her example.”
In her acceptance speech at the award ceremony, which by chance fell on Jabr’s birthday, she talked about the thousands of Palestinian mothers whose children have been killed in Israel’s genocidal military onslaught on the Gaza Strip, suggesting to her audience that they try to feel their pain as they do the pain of grieving mothers in New York. ….more
