Vanessa Whipple, RN, a caregiver on the hospital’s cardiac stepdown unit, is the 2024 Margaret McLaren Nursing Excellence Award Winner. McLaren Flint honored Vanessa and 12 other nominees at a May 9 ceremony. The excellence award is named after Margaret McLaren, RN, who served as Superintendent of McLaren General Hospital and its predecessor, the Women’s Hospital, for 27 years. When McLaren General Hospital opened in October 1951, the facility was named in her honor, making it the first hospital i...