Charge Health and The DAISY Foundation Supercharge Recognition for Nurses and Healthcare Teams

Charge Health and The DAISY Foundation will make meaningful recognition easier to give, more visible, and more widely celebrated.

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The DAISY Foundation, the worldwide leader in meaningful recognition of nurses, and Charge Health, the healthcare recognition platform used by more than 500 hospitals, today announced a new initiative designed to supercharge the way healthcare workers are recognized and celebrated.

The scale of recognition already happening across the two organizations is extraordinary. DAISY partner organizations have received more than 3.8 million nominations and recognized more than 280,000 nurses for extraordinary care. Charge Health has received over 2.3 million peer recognitions over the last three years. Together, DAISY and Charge Health represent the largest healthcare recognition community in the world, with DAISY celebrated across more than 8,200 healthcare organizations and schools of nursing in 47 countries and Charge Health connecting healthcare teams across more than 500 hospitals.

Charge Health and The DAISY Foundation now bring meaningful recognition directly into the everyday experience of healthcare teams—making it easier to nominate extraordinary nurses for DAISY Awards and amplifying recognition so it can be seen and celebrated by colleagues across healthcare organizations.

Making DAISY recognition easier

Through Charge Health, healthcare workers will have a simple way to nominate deserving nurses for DAISY Awards directly from their app.

By putting the nomination process where healthcare teams already recognize and interact with one another, Charge Health aims to make it easier for extraordinary nursing care to be recognized when it happens.

Making recognition visible—and celebrateable

DAISY recognition shouldn't end when an award is presented.

DAISY recognition will be shared through Charge Health so colleagues can see it, celebrate it, and reinforce the extraordinary contributions nurses make to patients, families, and one another.

Recognition becomes more than a moment. It becomes part of the culture.

"DAISY created the worldwide standard for meaningful recognition in nursing. Charge Health was built around the belief that recognition and connection should be part of every healthcare worker's daily experience," said Kyle Robertson, Founder and CEO of Charge Health. "Bringing those two ideas together gives us an opportunity to supercharge how healthcare organizations recognize their people—making it easier to nominate extraordinary nurses for DAISY Awards and ensuring their contributions are seen, shared, and celebrated."

Bonnie Barnes, Co-founder of The DAISY Foundation added "Charge Health is such an impressive technology facilitating meaningful recognition for nurses. We can't wait to see how many more DAISY nominations are written as a result of their adding DAISY to the platform." 

This combines DAISY's global leadership in meaningful recognition with Charge Health's technology for turning individual moments of appreciation into connection, celebration, and community.

The goal is simple: make recognition easier to give, harder to miss, and more powerful when it happens.

About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, by members of his family. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little-known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. (DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System.) The care Patrick and his family received from Nurses while he was ill inspired the creation of The DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurses, an evidenced-based means of providing Nurse recognition and thanking Nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families. In addition to the DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurses, the Foundation expresses gratitude to the nursing profession internationally in over 8,200 healthcare facilities and schools of nursing with recognition programs for nurses wherever they practice, in whatever role they serve, and throughout their careers – from nursing student through lifetime achievement, and through several lines of research grant and evidence-based practice projects funding. More information is available at https://DAISYfoundation.org.

About Charge Health
Charge Health is a healthcare workforce recognition and engagement platform used by healthcare teams across more than 500 hospitals. Over the last three years, healthcare workers have shared 2.3 million peer recognitions through Charge Health. Through peer recognition, patient recognition, and shared celebration, Charge Health helps healthcare organizations strengthen connection, belonging, and purpose by making the extraordinary work happening every day visible to the people who make it possible.

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