Jefferson Medical Center Names Daisy Award Winner

RANSON, W.Va. – University Healthcare’s Jefferson Medical Center has named Elizabeth McCarthy, a registered nurse in the Special Care Unit (SCU), as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the first half of 2015.

The award was presented to McCarthy during a recent ceremony held at the hospital. 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 University Healthcare’s Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center are being honored throughout the year with the DAISY Award.  The awards are being sponsored by the University Healthcare Foundation.  

The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, CA and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes.  Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), 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.