From left: JORGE CALIL and JESSICA MACINTYRE, D.N.P., MBA, APRN, AOCNP
PHOTOS BY LOCKINVAR DENIS
Along with being an all-around great nurse practitioner for Dr. Stephen D. Nimer, director of the Sylvester Complete Most cancers Heart, Jessica MacIntyre, M.B.A., DNP, APRN, AOCNP, has achieved an exquisite job creating and increasing the Affected person and Household Advisory Council (PFAC) on the College of Miami’s Sylvester Complete Most cancers Heart. Her tireless work has led to many enhancements which have instantly and positively affected my fellow sufferers with most cancers and their caregivers’ therapy expertise and lives.
Her management, drive and dedication to assist the Sylvester Complete Most cancers Heart/ College of Miami Well being System develop into a world chief within the care of sufferers with most cancers are unmatched. She and her staff have even helped many different members of the Sylvester household (great docs, nurses and directors) to enhance the care they supply to their sufferers and their caregivers.
Jessica was an enormous assist to me and my household throughout my three bouts with most cancers in addition to my stem cell transplant in 2016. As a three-time stage 4 most cancers survivor, as a proud unique member of the PFAC she created and as a group advocate, I’m ceaselessly grateful.
I can’t give a better advice or nomination than I give to (my good friend) Jessica. She not solely helped me and my household, but in addition impressed me to volunteer, develop into a PFAC member, develop into a member of our grievance committee and develop into a group advocate for Sylvester and all our sufferers and households.
My spouse, Kimmy, stated: “Jessica helped me and my household by means of the hardest 4 years of our lives. Jorge had three most cancers diagnoses or relapses in simply 4 years. I can by no means repay her for the endurance, caring and friendship she shared with us.”
I do know simply how essential her work at Sylvester is for all sufferers and their households. In every part she does, from her work to create the PFAC, to her work with the annual Dolphins Most cancers Problem fundraiser and so many different occasions, she all the time has the most effective pursuits of her sufferers, their households and her colleagues in focus. She is a real blessing for Sylvester and for all sufferers and households, particularly mine. My spouse, Kimmy, my daughters, Hannah Religion and Emma Hope, and I are proud to appoint Jessica and blessed to name her our good friend.
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