ROBYN GRABERT 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 Robyn Grabert, RN for the Daisy Award. Grabert has been a part of the TGMC team 4 years working as a Labor and Delivery Nurse in the Women’s Center.
“It was an honor to receive the award. I was very surprised. I see the nurses that I work with everyday, and they deserve it too. It was just amazing.
In attendance for the presentation were Grabert’s family and co-workers, the TGMC Daisy Award committee,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.