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Former Mott patient Taylor Ezikian (left) and student nurse Hanna Taylor (right) know the importance of the care Mott provides to international children. Both of their families have hosted children from Healing the Children.

Nursing student Hanna Taylor embraces a tradition of caring for international patients

Hanna Taylor has a unique perspective on the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Taylor knows Mott well as a visitor, and now she is a student nurse in her senior year at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. For more than a decade, Taylor’s family has hosted children from other countries through the Healing the Children program. All of those children received medical treatment at Mott Hospital.

Healing the Children is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to providing medical care to children who aren’t able to receive the care they need in their own countries. Healing the Children arranges travel, finds medical professionals who will donate their services and assigns each child to a volunteer host family who provides room, board and love during the child’s stay in the United States.

Starting when Taylor was in elementary school, her family welcomed children from other countries. She says that it was an amazing, life-changing experience. Before they could leave the hospital to recover at the Taylor’s house, Hanna and her parents visited their international guests at Mott Children’s Hospital. Taylor says that seeing how the Mott nurses helped their patients made her want to be a nurse.

“Nursing allows you to really be involved with families. The nurses were so sweet. They were amazing with kids,” she says.

Taylor is thrilled with her decision to choose the University of Michigan School of Nursing. She says, “I love my school!” She adds that her U-M experience has definitely lived up to her expectations. She praises her clinical instructors and lecturers, saying, “You can tell they really want students to learn, and they care about making us good nurses. Having U-M Hospital is priceless. It’s a great place to be.”

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