Lining Up for Football Season

Published in Dome - September 2015

Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse practitioner Suzette Heptinstall checks 7-year-old football player Elijah Stanley’s blood pressure during a physical exam. Elijah plays for the Baltimore City Fellowship of Christian Athletes Park Heights Saints club, which fields six different teams of players ages 5 to 13. Heptinstall recently volunteered to provide preseason physical exams along with Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse Nancy Sujeta. Nurse practitioner Peggy Lang from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and certified nurse assistant Jasmine Jordan also participated. Sujeta has volunteered with the Saints for several years. “I’m passionate about doing what I can to help these little guys,” she says.