Spectrum Health Grand Rapids Daisy Award winners in a celebration of Nurses Week on May 10, 2018.

DAISY Award Winners

“The DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the skillful, compassionate care nurses provide every day. The DAISY Foundation was established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes after he died from complications of the auto-immune disease ITP in 1999. During his hospitalization, they deeply appreciated the care and compassion shown to Patrick and his entire family. When he died, they felt compelled to say “thank you” to nurses in a very public way.”

Since implementing the DAISY Program at Spectrum Health Grand Rapids in August 2016, 44 clinical nurses have been recognized as DAISY Honorees for the care they deliver at the bedside, and 44 support staff team members have received the BEE (Being Extraordinary Every day) Award. Hundreds of other clinical nurses have received a special DAISY pin to recognize a nomination written by a patient, family member of a patient, or sometimes a fellow health care team member. The DAISY program at SHGR continues to grow and is a meaningful, impactful way for our nurses to be honored.

Beverly Black, RN, CCRN, 1H Critical Care, Blodgett Hospital
Amanda Courtade, BSN, RN, PCCN, 4H Bariatric Unit, Blodgett Hospital
Mary Beth Crittenden, ADN, RN, 5 North Oncology, Butterworth Hospital
Anita Fox, ADN, RN, 7 South Neuroscience, Butterworth Hospital
Stephanie Graczyk, BSN, RN, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Brenda Gehrke, ADN, RN, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Andrea Giffel, BSN, RN-BC, 1D Acute Care of the Elderly, Blodgett Hospital
Krista Hardy, ADN, RN, 4G Digestive Disease, Blodgett Hospital
Melissa Hawkins, BSN, RN, ONC, 4 North Ortho Trauma, Butterworth Hospital
Brittany Hawthorne, BSN, RN, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Jessica Hopkins, BSN, RN, 4G Digestive Disease, Blodgett Hospital
Chelsey Jewell, BSN, RN, 7 MHC Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Butterworth Hospital
Carrie Kent, RN, CEN, Butterworth Emergency Department
Lauren Lampman, BSN, RN, 6 Children’s Unit, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Ilanit Marx, BSN, RN, 7 Center Women’s Health Services, Butterworth Hospital
Rochelle Miller, BSN, RN, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Emily Quinlan, BSN, RN, Pediatric Critical Care Unit, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Michelle Rowland, ADN, RN, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Butterworth Hospital
Carrie Schmoekel, ADN, RN, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Butterworth Hospital
Lauren Sutton, BSN, RN-BC, 1D Acute Care of the Elderly, Blodgett Hospital
Joel Vedders, MSN, RN, ONC, Outpatient Center, Blodgett Hospital
Dan Wilson, BSN, RN, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Butterworth Hospital
Danielle Woodwyk, MSN, RN, ACCNS-AG, 7 South Neuroscience, Butterworth Hospital
Tyler Wooldridge, BSN, RN, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Butterworth Hospital