DAISY Award
DAISY Award honorees personify Van Buren County Hospital’s remarkable patient experience. These nurses consistently
demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care. They are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.
2024 Award Winner- Rhonda Fellows
Nominate a VBCH Nurse
To nominate one of our nurses, fill out our online form or print out our nomination brochure and mail it to Kasha Kite at Van Buren County Hospital 304 Franklin Street Keosauqua, IA 52565.
Daisy Award 2023
2024 Daisy Award Video:
What is the DAISY Award?
The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary compassionate and skillful care given by nurses every day. Van Buren County Hospital is proud to be a DAISY Award Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor annually. To find out more about the program, including the growing list of partners, please visit DAISYfoundation.org.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.) During Pat’s 8 -week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family. So one of the goals they set in creating a Foundation in Pat’s memory was to recognize extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous difference in the lives of so many people by the super-human work they do every day.
