The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses everyday. We are proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor every month or quarter.
Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony in her/his unit and will receive: a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healers Touch. Additionally, everyone in the unit will celebrate with cinnamon rolls - a favorite of Patrick's during his illness. The Barnes Family asks that whenever and wherever nurses smell that wonderful cinnamon aroma, they stop for a moment and think about how special they are.
How To Nominate an Extraordinary Nurse
Patients, visitors, nurses, physicians and Associates may nominate a deserving nurse by filling out the DAISY Award form online. For more information contact the DAISY Award Coordinator located at each facility below.
| Facility | Daisy Award Contacts | Contact Number |
|---|---|---|
| Le Bonheur | LaKenya Kellum | 901-287-7302 |
| Le Bonheur | Jessecca Brown | 901-287-6172 |
| North | Barbara Richmond | 901-516-5413 |
| North | Amanda Lovett | 901-516-5252 |
| Olive Branch | Mary "Katie" Yoakum | 662-932-9217 |
| South | Gladys Harris | 901-516-3093 |
| University | Sherrie Brown | 901-516-8206 |
| Germantown | Mandy Mullins | 901-516-6994 |
Methodist University Hospital Nurse Nominations
Nomination forms are also available for two additional awards that recognize nurses only at Methodist University Hospital. The DAISY Team Award and the DAISY Team Leader Award nomination forms are available below.
The Daisy Team Award - University
The Daisy Nurse Leader Award- University
The Daisy Nurse Educator Award- University
Methodist Germantown Hospital Nurse Nominations
Nomination forms are also available for three additional awards that recognize nurses only at Methodist Hospital Germantown. The DAISY Team Award and the DAISY Team Leader Award nomination forms are available below.
The Daisy Team Award - Germantown
The Daisy Nurse Leader Award - Germantown
The Daisy Nurse Educator Award - Germantown
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.