What is The DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses everyday. Huron Valley-Sinai is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor every month or quarter.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 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 8 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 everyday.
How To Nominate An Extraordinary Nurse
Patients and visitors may nominate a deserving nurse by filling out a form and submitting it to the Human Resources Department. An electronic version is available for download by clicking here and here. DAISY Award winners will be presented four times a year .
Please email, fax or mail nomination forms to:
Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital
Atten: Paul Reichert- Human Resource Department
1 William Carls Drive
Commerce, MI 48382
Email: DaisyHVSH@dmc.org
Fax: 248-937-5074 (Atten: Paul Reichert)