DAISY Award Archive — Page 1 of 9

July 20, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘She is the only reason I didn’t have a panic attack.’

Kristi Sherrod, RN, works at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Clarksville Dunlop Lane clinic. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

By Kylie Avery
July 20, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Trusting someone with your life is one thing, but trusting someone with your newborn child is entirely different.’

Michelle Gontko, BSN, RN, works in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care unit at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

By Kylie Avery
July 20, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Despite this not being the birth I had envisioned, I still came away feeling overwhelmingly positive, and that is entirely because of Katie.’

Katie Leavy, RN, works in the Labor and Delivery unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

By Kylie Avery
June 18, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘I have never experienced such exceptional care and kindness.’

Lauren Beaulieu, BSN, RN, works in the Adult Medicine and Women’s unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

By Kylie Avery
June 18, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘I can never repay her for what she did and the way she took care of us.’

Jenny Shelton, RN, works in the Women’s Center at Vanderbilt-Tullahoma Harton Hospital. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.

By Kylie Avery
May 22, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Her compassion shaped our first memories with our daughter — memories that could have been filled with fear but instead are filled with gratitude.’

Catina Crawford, RN, works in Women’s Health at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners. 

By Kylie Avery