Crime & Safety
Family Of Stabbing Victim Thanks Community, Team At Hospital
A nurse is recovering from a stabbing that occurred at the hospital at which she works.
SOUTHBRIDGE, MA—The family of a woman stabbed while working in the emergency department at Harrington Hospital on Wednesday is thanking the community.
The family issued the following statement via the Worcester District Attorney's office:
We would like to thank everyone yesterday for the tremendous outpouring of thoughts, prayers and well wishes. During this time we would like to ask that the members of the media give our family the space and the time that we need to heal together. We have a long and difficult journey ahead and we have decided together that we want to make the journey in private, together with our family and close group of Friends.
While the events that took place on June 14 were tragic, we are very thankful that we were granted the chance to be able to travel down the long road of recovery. There is a very small group of people that we will never be able to repay or express enough thanks and gratitude to. The small, well trained, group of close-knit nurses and doctor who was able to lead the group in a calm and professional manner. Also a group of EMT’S that were able to jump in and help in a moment’s notice.
Without these people being in the right place at the right time, the results would have been much worse. This team at Harrington Hospital, without question, saved their colleague and friend’s life. We do not want to in any way diminish the work done at UMASS Medical center.
The lead trauma surgeon yesterday summed it up best. He said that “We were here and able to put all the pieces back together,” however the “real heroes” were the group that worked on her at Harrington Hospital. We would also like to thank the entire team who worked on her at UMASS. They did an exceptional job and are all very good at what they do. They also did an exceptional job of providing us with as much, up-to-date, accurate information as they could. On a day when minutes felt like days a little shred of information goes a long way towards helping everyone keep things together.
Thank you all for the love and support during this difficult time.
Sincerely,
The Family
