Northern California Extraordinary Nurse Award
The Northern California Extraordinary Nurse Award Program recognizes and honors 34 individuals each year who exemplify professionalism, compassion, teamwork, excellence, integrity, and patient- and family-centric care in their practice.
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Nurse Leader of the Year
Yinghua Zhou, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, SCRN
Nurse Manager, 5SH Neuro Observation Unit
Extraordinary Nurse for Maternal Child Health
Amanda Sayaseng, BSN, RN, Caritas Coach
Staff Nurse IV, Labor & Delivery
The DAISY Nurse Leader Award
The DAISY Nurse Leader Award shines a light on nurse leaders — directors, managers, assistant managers, and educators — who don’t generally have direct patient care as part of their work and create an environment where compassionate, skillful care thrives.
Karen Cepero, DNP, RN, CCRN, CEN, NEA-BC
Galyn Everett, MSN, RN, RNC-OB
Lisa Kelly, BSN, RN
Mina Mai, MSN, RN, CNL
Amanda Mann, MBA, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CEN, CMSRN-BC, CV-BC
Bryan N Perry, RN
The DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurses
The DAISY Award® recognizes the compassion and care nurses provide to patients and families.
Janine Alano, BSN, RN
Nicole Bengyel, BSN, RN
Raji Chitithoti, BSN, RN
Sherie May Domingo, BSN, RN
Mariah Duff, BSN, RN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Justin Faist, BSN, RN
Kityu Hu, BSN, RN, CWOCN
Loni Katout, RN
Joanne Leslie, MSN, RN, RNC-NIC
Trisha Mondejar, BSN, RN
Lorinda Santos, BSN, RN
Grace Eun Hye Song, BSN, RN
The DAISY Team Award
The DAISY Team Award honors collaboration by 2 or more people led by a nurse who identifies and meets patient and/or patient family needs by going above and beyond the traditional role of the nurse.
Maternal Child Health Department
PETAL Award
The Performing Exceptional Tasks and Affirming Lives (PETAL) Award honors our partners in care. It recognizes the hard work of caregivers in non-nursing roles, from housekeeping and dietary services, who partner with nurses to deliver excellent, compassionate care for our members and the community.
Shemelash Adigih, PCT
Elva Blundell, PCT
Eric B Encarnacion, EVS
Basilia Fernandez, EVS
Jose Garcia, EVS
Raquel Mahaffey, EVS
Tenzing Namdek, Transporter
Cesar A Reyes, EVS
Oliver Roxas, Supply Chain
Levy Ward, ED