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Maya J. Contreras

Midwife and nurse, Los Angeles

  • 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Los Angeles Children's Hospital
  • Since 1979
  • English
I've been a nurse for 47 years, most of them in mental health at Los Angeles Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. Night shifts taught me patience, and patients taught me everything else. The thing I'm proudest of is that families usually remember my name. I volunteer at the food bank on Saturdays.

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Some of my best friends I met on the ward.
What gifts mean to Maya: I'd put gifts toward a training course in palliative care.

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  • Petra BrouwerColleague🇳🇱

    you delivered my daughter in 2004 and held my hand the whole time. Greetings from Amsterdam.

  • Adrián P. VásquezPatient / family🇲🇽

    you looked after my mother at Los Angeles Children's Hospital in 2007. We never forgot your kindness.

  • Idowu Ife MbaColleague🇳🇬

    you delivered my daughter in 2015 and held my hand the whole time. Greetings from Badagry.

  • Hala Taghreed TrabelsiPatient / family🇪🇬

    You looked after my mother at Los Angeles Children's Hospital in 1988. We never forgot your kindness

  • Ani Citra HakimPatient / family🇮🇩

    You delivered my daughter in 2023 and held my hand the whole time Greetings from Malang.

  • Paola Alice MartinelliColleague🇮🇹

    You looked after my mother at Los Angeles Children's Hospital in 2022. We never forgot your kindness

  • Jonas Emil WernerPatient / family🇩🇪

    You looked after my mother at Los Angeles Children's Hospital in 2023. We never forgot your kindness.

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