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Congratulations to Danuta “Donna” Grodzinska, clinical assistant in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Plastic Surgery Department, who’s been selected as April’s Employee of the Month.
Whether she’s sprinting to the cashier’s window to break a $20, on her hands and knees cleaning every inch of the front desk area or personally escorting familes to their next appointment, Grodzinska’s coworkers are constantly wowed by her “unending generosity.” According to one of them, she’s “undoubtedly one of the most selfless people I’ve ever met.”
Grodzinska came to Children’s as an administrative associate in 2002 and was promoted to clinical assistant a few years later. Since English is her second language, she took English classes and improved her skills tremendously. She now plays a key role in keeping Plastic Surgery operations running smoothly and its families happy. She bounces in and out of patients’ rooms to make friends with the children and offers parents helpful tips, like how they can get their parking validated. If a child is upset, she’s one of the first to rush over, usually offering them a sticker to calm them down.
Always extending a helping hand, Grodzinska often walks through other departments to see if an employee or patient from her area left something there by mistake. Once, when a patient forgot a cell phone in the waiting room, she dropped what she was doing and dashed through the hospital, across the street and out into the rain (without a coat) to return it to them before they drove home. “She’s a reminder that there’s always something more that can be done,” says a colleague.
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