Homecare Nurse of the Year Alicia Schwartz (standing, second from right) celebrates with her Visiting Nurse Service colleagues in Shanker Hall.

Nancy Barth Miller (center) of Staten Island University Hospital South, named the Hospital Nurse of the Year, with her mom, Lois Barth (left), and her sister, Donna Barth Musella.

Trailblazer Award winner Jennifer Armenia (right) of NYU Lutheran Medical Center with her proud mother, Debbie Armenia.

Always putting her patients first, Svetlana Polyakova, a Trailblazer Award winner, almost didn’t get away from NYU Lutheran in Brooklyn in time to make it to the ceremony.

Retiree Nurse of the Year Jihad Hamad of NYU Lutheran couldn¹t make the event, but was represented by five of her six children: (seated, from left) Sherin Hamad, Nevine Hamad and Nesrin Hamad, and (standing, from left) Murad Hamad and Susan Hamad. (Photo by Moncef Righi)

Homecare Nurse of the Year Alicia Schwartz of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York outshines even her beautiful bouquet.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Anne Goldman (third from left), the UFT vice president for non-DOE members and the head of the Federation of Nurses/UFT, with the honorees and family members.

UFT Vice President Anne Goldman (in blue, center) stands beside Anthony Harmon, an assistant to the UFT president, as the revelers cheer for the honorees.

Visiting Nurse Service members came out in force to honor one of their own.

UFT Treasurer Mel Aaronson (standing, right) joins members from NYU Lutheran.