DAISY Award for special nurse best ever birthday for CRDAMC beneficiary
There were dueling tears flowing recently at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center when former patient Julia Statuto surprised CRDAMC ICU nurse Tamara Hoffman. As a result of Julia and her mother’s nomination, Hoffman was honored with the quarterly DAISY Award, a national award that recognizes extraordinary nurses for the “super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day.” Looking on is Col. Jennifer Robison, chief of nursing, as well as other CRDAMC employees. The award was created in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died at age 33 of complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). The family was so touched by the nursing care Patrick received, that they created the DAISY Award to say “thank you” to nurses everywhere. Today, there are more than 3,000 healthcare facilities and schools of nursing in all 50 states and 17 other countries who participate in the DAISY Award program.
