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title: Happy Phlebotomist Week!
description: Celebrate Phlebotomist Week with Northwest AHEC! We thank phlebotomists for their indispensable role in patient care, ensuring accurate diagnoses and comforting patients during vulnerable moments.
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## [Happy Phlebotomist Week!](https://go.northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/blog/happy-phlebotomist-week)

 Feb 17, 2026 10:43:24 AM / by [Alana Dodson, MBA, BSN, RN](https://go.northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/blog/author/alana-dodson)

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**![IMG_4006](https://go.northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/IMG_4006.png?width=300&height=300&name=IMG_4006.png)**Northwest AHEC would like to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all phlebotomists for the vital role you play in health care every day. Your skill, precision, and compassion are essential to patient care and clinical decision-making. We celebrate you every week, but highlighting now since this past week was the official recognition week. 

Whether you are drawing blood in hospitals, clinics, labs, or community settings, your work often happens behind the scenes—but its impact is felt throughout the entire health care system. You help ensure accurate diagnoses, guide treatment plans, and provide comfort to patients during vulnerable moments.

Thank you for your dedication, professionalism, and commitment to excellence. We are grateful for all you do to support patients, providers, and communities across our region.

With appreciation,  
**Northwest AHEC**

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# About Us

The Northwest Area Health Education Center of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.

[Learn More](https://school.wakehealth.edu/Education-and-Training/Continuing-Professional-Education/Northwest-AHEC)

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