RANSON, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Jefferson Medical Center has named Kristy Brown, a registered nurse in the special care unit, as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for 2018.
The award was presented to Brown during a recent ceremony held at the hospital during National Nurses Week. She received a certificate along with a sculpture called A Healer’s Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
The DAISY Award was established nationally to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. Nurses at Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center are honored throughout the year with the DAISY Award. The awards are sponsored by the WVU Medicine University Healthcare Foundation.
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, Calif., and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, an auto-immune disease. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.