University Healthcare Berkeley Medical Center
Names Daisy Award Winner
10/28/2015
Berkeley Medical Center’s third quarter 2015 recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses is shown receiving her award from hospital officials. Left to right: Operating Room (OR) Clinical Coordinator Nicole Sinsebox, Daisy Award Winner Laura McCandless, Director of Surgery Steve Folmer; and Vice President of Patient Care Services Donna Clews.
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s Nurse Work Life Council named Laura McCandless, a registered nurse in One Day Surgery, as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the third quarter 2015.
The award was presented to McCandless during a recent ceremony at the medical center. 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 every day. 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 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.