Erin Prendergast is one of the outstanding health care professionals nominated for this year’s honors
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
Erin Prendergast’s love for nature is one of the many blessings she has to give her patients. She removes a chrysalis from her butterfly garden then packages it to hang in a basket filled with words of encouragement. Within a short amount of time, the butterfly emerges. She compares the lifecycle of the butterfly to the journey her breast cancer patients face after receiving their diagnosis. PPrendergast has worked for 15 years at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, 7 of those years have been spent at the Peggy A. Bell Diagnostic Imaging Center, giving strength to women who are fighting breast cancer. She has also founded the organization, On Butterflies’ Wings, teaching children the art of utilizing nature to give back to others. Although Prendergast didn’t begin her career in nursing, she knew
her calling was to care for others. “I feel very blessed to be in the position to touch people’s lives,” she says. —Hayley Votolato
