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. If you are still in the hospital while completing this form, you may turn it in to the front desk and ask them to submit it to the Clinical Director of the Unit. Nomination forms can also be mailed to 

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Clinical Education Services  
251 S.Claybrook
Memphis, TN 38104

Or call 901.516.8435 for more information.

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.