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WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center honors extraordinary nurses

WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center honors extraordinary nurses

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s Nurse Work Life Council named Jessica Copenhaver, R.N., and Suzanne Egolf, R.N., recipients of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses for the first and second quarters 2018.

WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s 2018 first and second quarter DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses recipients Suzanne Egolf (left) and Jessica Copenhaver (right) are pictured receiving their awards from Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer Samantha Richards (center).
WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center’s 2018 first and second quarter DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses recipients Suzanne Egolf (left) and Jessica Copenhaver (right) are pictured receiving their awards from Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer Samantha Richards (center).

The award was presented to Copenhaver, an orthopaedics nurse, and Egolf, an oncology 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 first and second quarters were Cheyla Stotler, Anita Watson, Sira Diakite, and Jan Nieves.

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 University Healthcare Foundation.  

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