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Franciscan Heath honors extraordinary nurse
Oak Forest resident is Olympia Fields hospital's latest Daisy Award recipient
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields recognized Destiny Chavez, RN, as its latest Daisy Award recipient.
A three-year registered nurse serving in the hospital’s Telemetry Unit, Chavez was nominated by a grateful former patient, who described the Oak Forest resident as a very special gift and skillful at what she does.
“There are a lot of things that you can't teach, and I think she has figured them out,” the patient said. “Just her kind words are medication enough. Knowing that she had other patients who were sicker than I was, she still had time to peak in to make sure everything with me was A-OK.”
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The patient asked the hospital to recognize Chavez for her skill and compassion.
“She is sincere, brilliant, successfully patient, humble, alert, helpful and her energy means a whole lot to me and I’m pretty sure her other patients feel the same,” the patient said.
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Franciscan Health recognizes the contributions of nurses all year long through the DAISY Awards. It salutes nurses like Chavez who deliver extraordinary, compassionate and skillful care. As part of this recognition, Chavez received a DAISY award pin, the Healer's Touch sculpture, a DAISY Award certificate and a box of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls to share with coworkers. Funding for the DAISY Award is provided by the Franciscan Health Foundation.
About the DAISY Award
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is an internationally recognized honor that was established in 1999 via the DAISY Foundation by members of the family of Patrick Barnes. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. Patrick Barnes was a 33-year-old husband and father of an infant daughter who died eight weeks after being diagnosed with the autoimmune disease idiopathic thrombocytopenia. The award was established to honor what his family perceived to be extraordinary kindness and compassion by the nurses caring for him during his illness. Cinnabons are given because when Patrick was too ill to have an appetite, at one point he was able to eat a Cinnabon his father had brought, and Patrick requested that Cinnabons be brought in the next day for not just him, but for the nurses as a thank you for their care. More information about the DAISY award can be found at https://www.daisyfoundation.org.
Submitted by Robyn Ali, Marketing Specialist, Franciscan Health Olympia Fields, Marketing and Public Relations Department robyn.ali@franciscanalliance.org