CMH Names Its DAISY Award Winner

Community Memorial Hospital recognized Debbie Hamilton, registered nurse, as their second quarter DAISY award winner recently.

Winners are nominated by patients to receive the honor. Hamilton, a resident of Colgate, is a registered nurse in the Outpatient Care Center and has been with the hospital since January 2009. A patient who nominated her said she is always smiling, doing extra little things for patients even on busy days and always going above and beyond patient expectation.

DAISY, an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, recognizes nurses as unsung heroes of our society who deserve more recognition and honor than they receive. More than 1,000 hospitals throughout the United States participate in the DAISY award program.

The DAISY Foundation provides each recipient with a sculpture, “A Healer’s Touch,” that is hand-carved for the foundation by artists of the Shona Tribe in Zimbabwe.

The sculpture is made of Serpentine stone that comes from the mountains “where the most powerful shaman” live in Zimbabwe. The foundation chose this design not only because it depicts the relationship nurses have with their patients, but also because the Shona people hold their healers in a position of great importance to the community and feel about their healers the way The DAISY Foundation and Community Memorial Hospital feel about nurses.