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.
Maternal Child Health
Salvacion Romero, BSN, RN
Staff Nurse IV, NICU
Continuum
Amber Avina, BSN, RN
Staff Nurse II, Home Health
DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award
Katherine “Kathy” Ricossa, PhD, MS, RN, PHN
Nursing Professional Development
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.
Casie Solomon, MBA, RN, CCRN
ICU
Judy Moreno, MSN, RN, CPAN, RN-BC
PPACU
DAISY Nurse Award
The DAISY Nurse Award for front-line staff recognizes the compassion and care nurses provide to patients and families.
Maryanne Cabelin Guzman, RN
Dept 335
Elgene Magsino, RN
ED
Eliot Marini, BSN, RN, TNCC, RN-BC
430 Neuro
Annie Mathews, RN
ASU
Velvet Nguyen, BSN, RN
ACO
Sarah Rozran, RN, CPAN
PPACU
Jeffrey Tapel, BSN, RN
430 Neuro
Ai Vo, RN
435 Oncology
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.
Stroke Unit
Department 135 Telemetry
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.
Nursing Professional Development Senior Staff Administrators
Caring Moments Award
KateLynn Davis, BSN, RN
Labor and Delivery
Marianne Justo, RN & Maria Taylor, BSN, RN, CCRN
Medical ICU
Silvia Sidor, BSN, RN
Labor and Delivery