(Atlantic) Cass County Health System is proud to announce that Katie Demanett, RN won the DAISY Award on May 8, 2020.
“I’m incredibly thankful,” said Katie. Katie began her career at CCHS as an LPN in the Atlantic Medical Center in 2016. She became an RN in 2018 and now works in Inpatient Services caring for hospitalized patients.
Her nominator said, “Katie’s professionalism shined while providing my care. She was respectful and courteous every time she entered my room. While providing my care she was positive and reassuring and you could see how she clicked with the rest of the staff.”
CCHS Chief Nursing Officer Amanda Bireline added, “We have been looking forward to this bright spot in these uncertain and sometimes chaotic times. Our nurses prove their commitment throughout the year and have certainly stepped up to the plate during the trying times of COVID. Katie is incredibly deserving; she is humble, kind, sincere, and funny. She worked very hard to become a nurse, and even harder to become an inpatient nurse at CCHS. We are so very blessed to be able to bestow this award for the high quality care she consistently delivers!”
Nurses at Cass County Health System are honored twice annually with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.® The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care they provide patients and families every day.
The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, by members of his family. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.) 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.
This is one initiative of The DAISY Foundation to express gratitude to the nursing profession. Additionally, DAISY offers J. Patrick Barnes Grants for Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Projects, The DAISY Faculty Award to honor inspiring faculty members in schools and colleges of nursing, and The DAISY in Training Award for nursing students. More information is available at http://DAISYfoundation.org. An online nomination form is available at https://www.casshealth.org/daisy.
