The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Want to Thank Your Nurse for Extraordinary Care?
Nominate a Nurse for The DAISY Award!
Share your personalized story!
DAISY Award Honorees personify Tenet Health Central Coast, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and Twin Cities Community Hospital’s remarkable patient-centered care experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence by upholding the mission and vision of our hospitals, ensuring we provide the highest quality healthcare to the patients we serve.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of 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 eight week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family. So 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 by the super-human work they do every day.
What Is The DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care provided by nurses on a daily basis. Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and Twin Cities Community Hospital are proud to be DAISY Award Partners, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor.
To find out more about the program, including the growing list of Partners, please go to www.DAISYfoundation.org.
Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her/his unit and will receive: a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch. Additionally, everyone in the unit will celebrate with cinnamon rolls, a favorite of Patrick’s during his illness. The Barnes Family asks that whenever and wherever nurses smell that wonderful cinnamon aroma, they stop for a moment and think about how special they are.
How to Nominate an Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians or employees may nominate a deserving nurse by filling out a nomination form. Forms can be obtained from any nurses’ station, administrative offices, the front desk or by emailing:
[email protected] to nominate a nurse at Sierra Vista
[email protected] for a nurse at Twin Cities
Completed forms can be dropped off directly with administration, mailed or emailed (see address below).
Please include the following:
- Name of nurse you are nominating
- Unit where the nurse’s personalized story occurred/works
- A personalized story that clearly demonstrates how this nurse made a meaningful difference in patient care
- Your name/email/phone
- Date of nomination
- Relationship to nurse (ie., colleague, patient, family/friend of patient)
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center
Attn: Daisy Award Review Committee
1010 Murray Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
[email protected]
Twin Cities Community Hospital
Attn: Daisy Award Review Committee
1100 Las Tablas Road
Templeton, CA 93435
[email protected]
If you have any questions, please call Sierra Vista at (805) 546-5140 or Twin Cities at (805) 434-4545.