Cindy Wesolowski

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Hopelessness and despair are transformed into hope and perseverance when Cindy Wesolowski interacts with a family. As an advanced practical nurse at Rockdale School-based health center, she is scheduled to work 25 hours a week but donates hundreds of extra hours a year and has been instrumental in implementing a quality improvement asthma program. She has often said, “There are cracks in our health-care system. The VIPs are working to fix the cracks, but until that happens I’m a nurse practitioner and I will do whatever I can to keep another child from falling through the cracks.”