Memorial Health Nurse Honored with DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses

Memorial Health’s Carla Porterfield, R.N., has been honored with the hospital’s first DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses. The award, presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the heroic efforts nurses make everyday. Carla Porterfield is a nurse on the Pediatric Special Care Unit (PSU) at Memorial.

The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, California, and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Barnes died in 1999 at the age of 33 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little-known but not uncommon autoimmune disease. The care Barnes and his family received from nurses inspired the award. Memorial is among the over 360 hospitals in the United States and Canada committed to The DAISY Award program. To date the Daisy Foundation has recognized over 3,500 nurses for their extraordinary care.