It is in the drawls of suffering that a person is most in need of compassionate words and a healing touch. This DAISY recognition is to signify a nurse who carries the spirit of service. Someone who recognizes that carefully washing a patient can be just as important as a life-saving medication or procedure. In the time I have worked with Chuck, I have come to appreciate the level of unsparing compassion he brings to work.

A quiet soul who gets just as close to a COVID patient to say, "You are cared for..." "I am here for you..." as any other patient. A prioritizer of people and emotions, Chuck has an internal commitment to himself and his patients to care equally for all. With an intense devotion to the holistic and environmental aspects of nursing care, Chuck takes nursing to its roots, and the patients he cares for flourish emotionally and mentally. Not all can recover physically from their situation and state of vulnerability but I have witnessed Chuck provide emotional reprieve time and time again. In my own last days, it would be a gift from God to have someone with his reassurance of serenity by my side.