DAISY Award

2024 October DAISY Honorees/Nominees

Congratulations to Alexandra Ekhoff, our October 2024 DAISY award winner!

JosephDuaxRN/Home Health Care
LaurenHaasRN/Emergency Service
CrystalEarlsRN/4 Rehab
KayleeFahnestockRN/Emergency Service
SarahMcClintockRN/Procedural Care
AnnePriceRN/IMCU
MadelynnNortonRN/Ortho-Neuro
AlexandraEkhoffRN/Home Health Care-Daisy Honoree
CrystalKnepperRN/3 Tele
SharonGardnerRN/Procedural Testing
LeslieMaloneRN/Wound Center OP HBO
KimRuckmanRN/Obstetrics Unit
JacobBrunerRN/ICU 3
JanetWeldonRN/ICU 3
DarrellMcGeeRN/Float
DianaBoydRN/3 Tele
AmberChaseRN/Float

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DAISY Award Winner: Alexandra Ekhoff

Congratulations to our newest DAISY Honoree, Alexandra Ekhoff. Alexandra, a.k.a. Ali, is a Nurse with Riverside Home Health Care. The DAISY Award recognizes the exceptional, skillful, and compassionate care these nurses demonstrate for our patients and families every day.

Her nomination read, “Ali saved a life yesterday. Ali arrived at her scheduled time to visit a very ill patient in their home. She knocked on the door several times and no one answered. She could hear the patient’s cell phone ringing and his dogs were barking. Ali knew something was not right. She called the police department to come do a well check. The town Ali was visiting does not have their own police department and the county police officers who needed to respond were miles away. The officers talked Ali through entering the home since the door was unlocked and she is well known by her patient. Ali found her patient gasping for air in his bedroom, on 10 liters of oxygen, and in respiratory distress. 911 was called and the patient was transported to the ED. Because of Ali’s strong will and gut feeling that something was not right, this patient’s life was saved. Thank you Ali for going above and beyond &caring for our home health care patient’s.”

For a full list of nominees, click here.

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2024 September DAISY Honorees/Nominees

Congratulations to Kim Gaddis, our September 2024 DAISY award winner!

NicoleGibsonRN/Emergency Service
JacobBrunerRN/ICU-3
DeborahJohnstonRN/Procedural Care
WilliamSlagerRN/Emergency Service
KellieBesslerRN/CTC
DavidLukowskiRN/Geriatric Psych
KelseyDoranOffice RN-Clinic RN/RMG Urology
RebeccaMcCordLPN/Riverside Cardiac Specialists
EmmaWattsRN/Emergency Service
HaileyMatthiasRN/Emergency Service
JacquelineGrangerRN/Recovery Room
MeganLumbrezerRN/Emergency Service
MandiTroliNP/Momence CHC
SkylarCarneyRN Registry I/Emergency Service
CarolineStanekRN/Home Health Care
KimGaddisRN/Nursery       Daisy Honoree
MorganMcCormickClinical Team Lead/Fifth Floor East
AllisonBurgerClinical Team Lead/IMCU
MaggieBarberRN/ICU-3
ZoeyHarerRN/ICU-3
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DAISY award winner: Kim Gaddis

Join us as we recognize Nursery RN Kim Gaddis as our newest DAISY Honoree. The DAISY Award celebrates the extraordinary, compassionate, and skillful care nurses provide every day.

Kim’s nomination read: “During my hospital stay 9-21-2024 through 9-23/2024 Kim was the nursery RN who took care of my new baby boy from the start of the C-section till we basically got discharged. When she introduced herself and informed me that she was going to be the nurse in the C-section to get babies height, weight, and do the baby’s bath, I informed her that my husband was unable to watch my daughter get bathed back in 2022 at RMC or anything and if she could grab him once this baby was born so he could see all the things he missed out on with our daughter and she did! My husband was so excited he was able to experience that this time around and I’m so thankful for Kim doing that. Kim was compassionate, never judged if my husband and I had questions even though this was our 2nd child, and she was so knowledgeable when she showed us circumcision care. She helped us with diaper changes after my baby was circumcised because of how new it was and we had no idea what we were doing. She never made us feel incompetent and she always kept us stocked with everything we needed. She was also fast to bring us formula when the baby needed to be fed. She was just overall very attentive and caring and listened to all of our concerns or needs. She checked on us all the time and always made sure we were comfortable and addressed any needs and or questions or concerns. She deserves this!”

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2024 August Daisy Honoree/Nominees

Congratulations to McKenna Ganassin who was named our August 2024 DAISY Honoree.

AshleyWallingRN/Labor & Delivery
DeborahJohnstonRN/Procedural Care
Kendree’aHodgesCNP/Watseka Primary Care
RylieKarvunisRN/IMCU
KatherineLeClearNP/CHC Admin.
CourtneyHeldRN/IMCU
JillMitchellRN/Labor & Delivery
PeytonMullinRN/Emergency Service
GraceGormanRN/Emergency Service
DavidLukowskiRN/Geri Psych
ColinLamieRN Team Lead/Geri Psych
MichaelCullinanRN Team Lead/Emergency Service
GwendolynTammenRN/Wound Center OP HBO
MeghanDavisRN Registry I/Mental Health
MaryLongtinRN/Med Peds
OliviaWilsonRN/CTC
CharlyMpunduRN/Emergency Service
RickCarlsonNP/RMG Internal Medicine
JoannaLambertNP/East Court St CHC
ReneeKoernerRN Team Lead/ICU
BaileyBoswellRN/IMCU
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