Rewarding Extraordinary Nursing
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates nurses' extraordinary clinical skills and compassionate care every day. All Rochester Regional Health hospitals, nursing homes, and the Isabella Graham Hart School of Practical Nursing are proud to be DAISY Award partners, ensuring that all nurses who provided exemplary care can be recognized.
Nominate a NurseA DAISY Award nominee is a nurse whose clinical skill and especially her/his compassionate care exemplify the kind of nurse that our patients, their families, and our team members recognize as an outstanding role model. She/he acts in a way that consistently demonstrates the values of our organization as evidenced by:
If you have seen or experienced care from a nurse who had these qualities, please nominate them today!
Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her/his unit and will receive a:
We are tremendously proud of our inspiring nurses and are thankful that you've chosen to nominate them.
The DAISY Foundation™ was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died from complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.) During Pat's 8-week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided to Pat and everyone in his family. One of the goals they set in creating a foundation in Pat's memory was to recognize extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous difference in the lives of so many people through the super-human work they do every day.
To learn more about the program, including the growing list of Hospital Partners, visit the DAISY Foundation.