City Hospital’s Nurse Work Life Council named Tina Conner, RN, as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the first quarter 2012.
Conner, a nurse on the intensive care unit at City Hospital, was presented the award during a recent ceremony at the hospital. She received a certificate along with a sculpture called A Healer’s Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
The DAISY award was established nationally to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday.  Nurses at WVUH-East’s City Hospital and Jefferson Memorial Hospital are being honored throughout the year with the DAISY Award. The WVUH-East awards are being sponsored by the City Hospital Foundation and the Jefferson Health Care Foundation.
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, CA and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), an auto-immune disease. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
Tina Conner, RN, City Hospital’s first quarter recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses, is shown receiving her award from hospital officials at a recent ceremony. Pictured from left to right: Surgery Director Steve Folmer, Conner, Karen Pezzanite, ICU clinical coordinator, and Donna Clews, vice president of patient care services.
