WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center honors extraordinary nurses

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s Nurse Work Life Council named Whitney Bennett, R.N., and Amy Tally, R.N., recipients of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the third and fourth quarters of 2018.

The awards were presented to Bennett, an ICU nurse, and Tally, a perinatal nurse, during a recent ceremony at the Medical Center. They both received a certificate along with a sculpture called "A Healer’s Touch," hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.  

DAISY Award honorable mention recipients for the third and fourth quarters were Jennifer Simmers, R.N., perinatal services, and Betty McKinney, R.N., recovery services.

The DAISY Award was established nationally to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. Nurses at WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center are being honored throughout the year with the DAISY Award. The awards are sponsored by the WVU Medicine University Healthcare Foundation.  

The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, California, and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), an auto-immune disease at the age of 33 in late 1999. 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.