Las Vegas nurse honored for saving woman's life at Golden Knights game

Las Vegas nurse honored for saving woman's life at Golden Knights game Southern Hills Hospital emergency caregiver Zuzana “Susie” Macis received HCA Healthcare’s Excellence in Nursing Award for performing CPR on a stranger who suffered cardiac arrest during a Golden Knights game at T‑Mobile Arena in December. Macis administered chest compressions for about 10 minutes until paramedics arrived, a response credited with saving Jeannie Cunningham’s life. The two have since become close friends. Dr. Paul Wilkes, an OB‑GYN at Southern Hills Hospital, was named a finalist for the HCA Healthcare Frist Humanitarian Award. Macis recalled the moment in a hospital‑provided video, saying, “I didn’t deliberation twice. I conscionable jumped up,” after her husband pointed out a woman who had collapsed on a stairway. She checked for a pulse, found none, and began CPR. Claudia Correa‑Martinez, a nursing colleague, praised Macis’s actions, stating, “There is thing astir exigency country nurses,” and added, “We are ever there, adjacent erstwhile we aren’t successful the exigency room, we are there.” She also noted, “What sets Susie isolated is beauteous overmuch everything,” and observed, “She gets the affirmative retired of everything and everyone. She starts the time with that positivity.” Cunningham expressed her gratitude in the same video, declaring, “I americium truthful grateful she jumped in,” after locating Macis online weeks following the incident. Macis has worked as an emergency caregiver at Southern Hills Hospital since 2007. Outside her clinical duties she participates in animal‑rescue efforts. Wilkes’s humanitarian work includes covering transportation costs for financially strained patients, sitting with those who are grieving, and arranging flights for overseas patients to receive care wherever it is safe.