WCCH Names DAISY Award Winner

Jason graduated with his ADN from WCC in 2018, starting at BRMC until Valentine’s Day of 2019 when I came home to Wythe County Community Hospital. He and Chelsey have 4-year-old twin girls Maggie and Lexie and two 4 legged children, Harleigh and Henry.

 

 

Thank you, Jason, for your ability to ease the hearts and minds of our patients as they walk through our doors. Congratulations on winning the DAISY Award and thank you for your continued support of our mission to make our communities healthier!

 

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), a little known but not uncommon 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.

Said Bonnie Barnes, FAAN, CEO and Co-Founder of The DAISY Foundation, "When Patrick was critically ill, our family experienced first-hand the remarkable skill and care nurses provide patients every day and night. Yet these unsung heroes are seldom recognized for the super-human work they do. The kind of work the nurses at Wythe County Community Hospital are called on to do every day epitomizes the purpose of The DAISY Award.”