Jefferson Memorial Hospital nursing officials, Amanda Bock (left) and Linda Blanc (right) are shown presenting the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses for the second half of 2012 to Cynthia Fraley, RN.
Jefferson Memorial Hospital has named Cynthia Fraley, RN, a nurse in the medical surgical unit, as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the second half of 2012.
The award was given to Fraley during a recent ceremony held 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 every day. 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.
