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NBC Nightly News Highlights Reunion Between Temple Patient and ICU Nurses

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NBC Nightly News featured a heartwarming reunion at Temple University Hospital on November 13: patient Zipporah Washington, a young mother who beat an invasive tumor that attacked her heart while completing nursing school, reunited with the nurses and doctors who cared for her. TV stations across the country aired the story, including in Boston, San Diego, Toledo, San Francisco, Nashville, Birmingham, Sacramento, Fresno, and Palm Springs.