Local Hero

Toni Hoffman
2006 Award

Patient Advocate

Toni Hoffman has shown true dedication to her profession as a nurse and to her personal values. Toni spent two years raising her concerns about patient safety in the Bundaberg hospital. Her ethics and values would not allow her to walk away from the problems she identified and she placed her concern for patients and their families above her own well being. There are many who understand and appreciate her compassion for patients and her strength in standing up for what she believed in.

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