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Jennie Edmundson’s Tracie Kerns honored with Iowa Hospital Association’s Hospital Hero Award
… After a busy day at work in the fall of 2024, Tracie Kerns, BSN, RN, was ready to relax at her home in Glenwood, Iowa. Family visiting from out of town planned to go out to … back and his eyes rolled back in his head.” Kerns laid the man down in the booth and checked for a pulse again, but this time there was none. She began chest compressions and yelled for a … in someone’s life. She recalls how the day after the incident, her co-worker asked her to visit her recovering husband in the hospital. “He started crying,” Kerns said. “He said, ‘You …