For most of us, hospitals are places we want to get in and out of as quickly as possible; we usually don’t think of them as places we want to linger. It’s a different story for Nancy Cowee, though, who was recognized on Monday for volunteering 36,634 documented hours at the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital gift shops.
Nancy’s journey with the hospital began after her husband, John Cowee, accepted a position as chancellor of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the pair subsequently moved to Colorado. During her first or second meeting with the faculty wives, she suggested a gift shop, she told .
Along with other faculty wives, Nancy helped create the hospital’s first gift shop, which started as a small operation and has since grown into three gift shops…