Through our awards programs, we recognize nurses and care partners who exemplify excellence and provide high-quality, compassionate care to our members and patients.
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 Leaders of the Year
Bernice Yale, BSN, RN
Nurse Manager, Medical Surgical
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 Carillo, ADN
Nurse Family Practice Clinic, Gilroy
Adam Gress, BSN
ANM 4 M/S
DAISY Nurse Award
The DAISY Nurse Award for front-line staff recognizes the compassion and care nurses provide to patients and families.
Roberto Vetrone, RN, WCC
Nurse ICU
Manjeet Dihman, BSN, RN, PHN
Nurse 7S
Calvin Cheng, BSN – Nurse ICU
Derek White, BSN – Nurse ICU
Joseph Makem, ADN
Nurse ASU PACU
Phoung Le, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN, CDP
Nurse Practitioner Neurology Clinic
Ranjit Kumar, BSN
Nurse GI/Endoscopy
Christine Armstrong, BSN
Nurse Life Care Planning
Threisamma Augustine, BSN
Nurse/Endoscopy
Leslie Heuschkel, BSN
Nurse NICU
Elsa Garcia, ADN
Nurse 3 M/S
Bryant Le, BSN
Nurse ICU
Jennifer Morrill, BSN
Nurse ICU
Renelyn Bermejo, ADN
Nurse, ICU
Ariel Saure, BSN
Nurse ED
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.
Labor & Delivery
PETAL Award
(Allied Health Friends of Nursing) — The PETAL Award is for interdisciplinary non-nurses. 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.
Stella Iwasaki, Volunteer
Karen Melcher, Unit Assistant, ICU