{"id":163120,"date":"2026-02-20T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:16:08","slug":"anniversary-to-remember-hca-florida-st-lucie-hospital-nurses-surprise-one-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163120\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary to remember: HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital nurses surprise one of their own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ths-stlucie-anniversary-700x532.jpg\" data-entity-uuid=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"A gerbera daisy sits on a plate on a candle-lit table\" width=\"700\" height=\"532\" class=\"align-left\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was Angela and Christopher\u2019s wedding anniversary, but it looked like they wouldn\u2019t be able to celebrate it. Angela, a nurse at HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, wasn\u2019t working \u2014 instead, she was a patient recovering from surgery to address severe abdominal pain. But her co-workers and friends weren\u2019t going to let the day pass by.<\/p>\n<p>As a surprise, the nurses set up a small table by Angela\u2019s bed, complete with candles and a vase of flowers. There were no plastic hospital trays or cups, either; instead, the table was set with china and glassware. The menu? Steak and shrimp.<\/p>\n<p>After the meal, Christopher said it was the first time he\u2019d seen his wife smile all week. Angela says that she didn\u2019t get this special treatment just because she\u2019s a nurse. \u201cThey\u2019d do this for any of our patients,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really at the heart of our mission: Making everyone feel valued and cared for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angela recovered at home and is now \u201cfeeling great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Angela and Christopher\u2019s wedding anniversary, but it looked like they wouldn\u2019t be able to celebrate it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-163120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}