Broward Health North is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing two of our nurses with this special honor every month. Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a public ceremony on her/his unit and will receive:
Additionally, everyone on the unit will celebrate with Cinnabon rolls - a favorite of Patrick's during his illness.
The DAISY Foundation was established in 2000 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.) During Pat's 8 week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family. So one of the goals they set in creating a Foundation in Pat's memory was to recognize extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous difference in the lives of so many people by the super-human work they do everyday.