DAISY Award
Excela Health is proud to participate with health systems nationwide in recognizing nurses who create an exceptional patient care experience with the DAISY Award.
DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The DAISY Foundation was formed in November 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at age 33 of complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) to acknowledge nurses for the work they do for patients and their families every day.
Nurses may be nominated by patients, families, colleagues, physicians and other staff. Nominees will be judged for their compassionate care, knowledge, teamwork, clinical expertise and professional collaboration.
Each awardee is recognized publicly with a certificate commending her or him for being an "Extraordinary Nurse,” and a sculpture called A Healer’s Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
Our awardees include:
2020
2020 Annual DAISY Leader Award
Traci Fick, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Vice President, Patient Care Services, Frick
and Westmoreland Hospitals
2020 DAISY Award
Julie Kunkle, RN, Frick Hospital PCU
Amber Mauck, BSN, RN, Home Care & Hospice
2020 DAISY Team Award
Behavioral Health Community Psychiatric Nursing Program
2019
Kaitlin Kozak, BSN, RN, Latrobe Hospital Critical Care
Geralyn Susko, BSN, RN, Westmoreland Hospital PCU 1E
Geralyn Susko, BSN, RN, Westmoreland Hospital Unit 1E
Jason Wojclechowski, BSN, RN, Latrobe Hospital ICU
Jason Scott, RN, Westmoreland Hospital ICU
Travis Dominick, RN, Latrobe Hospital ICU
2019 DAISY Team Award
Neuro/Joint Works Latrobe Hospital
2019 DAISY Nurse Leader Award
Katie Crovak, MSN, RN, Latrobe Hospital Neuro/Joint Works
2019 DAISY Leadership Award
Jessica Spiker, MSN, RN, CPHQ, Quality
2018
January 2018
Lois Wozny, BSN, RN, Home Care & Hospice
March 2018
Arnold Wade, RN, Westmoreland Hospital Step Down Unit
May 2018
Catherine Zehner, BSN, RN, Latrobe Hospital PCU
July 2018
Bobbi Rodino, RN, Westmoreland Hospital Emergency Department
September 2018
Sheila Farina, MSN, RN-BC, Westmoreland Hospital Nurse Navigator
November 2018
Kelly Glaser, RN, Westmoreland Hospital 3D
Daisy Team Honoree: Westmoreland Hospital Intensive Care Unit
2017
Natalie Hoag, BSN, RN, PCU, Latrobe Hospital
Marjorie Thomas, BSN, RN, MBA, Nursing Administration, Westmoreland Hospital
Pamela Painter, RN, Latrobe Hospital ICU
Shawn Ditch, BSN, RN, Home Care & Hospice
Kandace Dunlap, RN, Home Care & Hospice
Jeffrey Ian Wirth, RN, Frick Hospital CCU
Daisy Team Honoree: Frick Hospital Perioperative Services
2016
Sheilah Reskovac, RN, ICU, Frick Hospital
Amy Medved, CRNP, Family Additions Maternity Center, Westmoreland Hospital
Anne Highlands, RN, Family Additions Maternity Center, Westmoreland Hospital
Daisy Team Honoree: Excela Health Nursing Informatics
2015
November 2015
Kelly Newbauer, Emergency Department, Westmoreland Hospital
July 2015
Susan Poklembo, Advanced Wound Center
April 2015
Carrie Polo, IMU Latrobe Hospital
2014
December 2014
Rita Martin, Integrated Care Unit, Frick Hospital
August 2014
Joann Condron, Nursing Supervisor, Latrobe Hospital
June 2014
Janet Tinkey, Behavioral Health
January 2014
Claire Hogan, 1D, Westmoreland Hospital
Daisy Team Honoree: 2D Collaborative Care Unit, Westmoreland Hospital
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