The DAISY Award is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the care nurses provide every day. McLaren Port Huron is proud to be a DAISY Award partner, recognizing our nurses for their outstanding clinical skills, extraordinary compassion and personalized care they give to our patients.
The DAISY Foundation was established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes after he died at age 33 from complications of the auto-immune disease ITP. The Barnes family was awestruck by the skills, caring and compassion of the nurses who cared for Patrick, so they created the DAISY Award as a way to say thank you to nurses everywhere.
DAISY Award recipients are recognized at a public ceremony and receive a framed certificate, a DAISY Award signature lapel pin and a hand-carved sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch. To nominate a nurse for the DAISY Award, simply share your story of extraordinary care. Nomination forms can be found throughout the hospital or online.