MONIQUE ALBARES NAMED TGMC DAISY AWARD RECIPIENT
Date released: 6/5/2008
Nurses at Terrebonne General Medical Center are being honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. This award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. Mark Barnes and his family founded the award in 1999, and Terrebonne General Medical Center joins 37-other medical facilities honoring their nurses with this special award.
The TGMC has chosen Monique Albares, RN for the Daisy Award. Albares has been a part of the TGMC team 12 years working on the Telemetry floor.
“It is an honor to receive this award. I try to treat people with respect and dignity. I treat my patients like I treat my family,” said Albares.
In attendance for the presentation were Albares’ family and co-workers, the TGMC Daisy Award committee, Phyllis Peoples, TGMC President and CEO, Teresita McNabb, TGMC Vice-President of Nursing Services and Linda Songy, TGMC Assistant Vice-President of Nursing Services.
This is one initiative of The DAISY Foundation, whose overall goal is to help fight diseases of the immune system. Additionally, DAISY has programs to help fund research to improve treatment and ultimately cure Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), contribute to bone marrow and blood drives and provide support for ITP patients and their families.