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Elizabethtown hospital starts DAISY nursing awards

ELIZABETHTOWN — The University of Vermont Health Network’s Elizabethtown Community Hospital has launched the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national nurse recognition program. The announcement was made as part of the hospital’s National Nurses Week celebration.

The nonprofit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, California, and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. The care he and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this means of thanking nurses for making a difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.

Patients, families and colleagues can nominate nurses at Elizabethtown Community Hospital’s two campuses and six health centers. Awards will be presented twice a year to nurses selected by a committee of their peers. Honorees will receive certificates commending each one as an “Extraordinary Nurse,” a DAISY Award pin and a sculpture called “A Healer’s Touch,” hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Zimbabwe.

Nomination forms can be found at ECH facilities and online at www.ech.org.

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